ALAMEDA, Calif. and LEESBURG, VA – January 19, 2010 – Wind River and Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing today announced the immediate availability of Wind River's VxWorks DO-178B Platform, designed to meet the stringent safety certification requirements of the aerospace and defense industry. The new release of the platform includes complete DO-178B Level A certification evidence for a reference board support package (BSP) for the SVME/DMV-183 single board computer and additional processor support for Intel™ Core™ 2 Duo IA-32 and Power Architecture© e600 cores. This makes it easier for customers to migrate to new higher performance hardware and reduce their time-to-market.

The new release of VxWorks DO-178B Platform continues Wind River's tradition of basing its safety critical platform on its market-leading VxWorks, and thereby the flexibility to easily migrate to COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) hardware, giving customers the flexibility to use the best hardware that fits their requirements.

To ease and speed the development of DO-178B Platform COTS solutions, Wind River offers a pre-packaged solution that includes a BSP with FAA DO-178B certification evidence for the SVME/DMV-183 single board computer. With many customers already leveraging Curtiss-Wright Controls' boards, this solution offers a pre-configured combination that saves time and money.

"We are excited to be partnering with Wind River in their development of the first VxWorks DO-178B Platform board support package for our SVME/DMV-183 single board computer," said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. "This is a great step forward in our commitment to provide our mutual aerospace and defense customers with a proven off-the-shelf solution for safety critical applications, which customers have long desired to significantly reduce their development time and costs."

Specifically, the new features of VxWorks DO-178B Platform include:

• Support for Intel IA-32 architecture, and Power Architecture e600 cores, giving customers developing safety critical applications the option of processors that may provide better performance-to-cost ratios depending on the application. DO-178B level A/B/C/D certification is available on both the Power Architecture e600 and e300 cores;


• Board Support Package (BSP) with DO-178B level A/B/C/D certification evidence for the SVME/DMV-183 single board computer, offering customers a cost-effective COTS hardware and software solution to save significant time and money when developing safety critical devices.


 

"Wind River continues to lead the way in delivering software development solutions to meet the rigorous safety certification requirements of the aerospace and defense industry," said Marc Brown, vice president, marketing and strategy, VxWorks Product Division, Wind River. "Wind River's strong partnership with Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing and board support package with DO-178B certification evidence underscore our commitment to helping our customers realize efficiencies by using commercial off-the-shelf solutions in safety critical environments."

Additional details about the VxWorks DO-178B Platform can be found at
www.windriver.com/products/platforms/safety_critical_do-178b/.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif. with offices in more than 15 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or blogs.windriver.com.

 

 

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif., January 5, 2010 — Wind River today announced the immediate availability of VxWorks version 6.8, the embedded industry's leading real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River’s continued investment in VxWorks has delivered improvements in multicore support and fundamental operating system features, decreasing time-to-market while lowering costs and improving quality for device manufacturers.

VxWorks is a proven, high-performance, reliable, commercial-grade real-time operating system addressing the diverse needs of embedded systems. VxWorks 6.8 provides product differentiation via increased performance, a smaller footprint and hardware platform flexibility. Wind River’s newest version of VxWorks also provides choice in multicore architecture allowing customers to select the right solution for their needs. Improved OS primitives, USB support and file system performance with VxWorks 6.8 provide customers with increased product quality, more compatibility and improved product performance.

“Wind River’s continued investment in VxWorks is providing the market with a proven and trusted solution for embedded systems including multicore devices. With each release of VxWorks, Wind River continues to improve performance and broaden hardware support to enable the next generation of devices,” said Marc Brown, vice president, marketing and strategy, VxWorks Product Division, Wind River. “VxWorks 6.8 also demonstrates Wind River’s commitment to delivering a comprehensive solution for embedded systems.”

Additional key features and benefits of VxWorks 6.8 include:

• A standards-compliant solution and comprehensive mobile IP support to provide devices with next-generation networking capabilities for 4G and pre-4G including LTE and WiMAX technologies;


• Increased multicore processor support for Intel® Core™ i7 processor, ARM MPCore and Cortex A9; Freescale QorIQ P2020; Cavium 54xx, 55xx, 56xx, 57xx, 58xx; and RMI XLR, XLS allowing customers to choose the processor that best fits their needs;


• Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) performance improvements and SMP core reservation;


• Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) enhancements such as AMP spin locks, and a major upgrade to Wind River’s multi-OS inter-process communication with MIPC version 2.0, raising the bar for multicore capabilities with even higher performance thresholds;


• New small ARM footprint profile for creating embedded applications with very small memory requirements; and


• Significant developer tool productivity improvements, including VxWorks core dump file and analysis, and improvements to multicore and multi-OS debugging and user workflows.

Availability
VxWorks 6.8, available as part of VxWorks Edition 3.8, is immediately available to customers worldwide. Additional details about VxWorks 6.8 can be found at www.windriver.com/announces/vxworks6.8/.

About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a world leader in embedded and mobile software. Wind River has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981 and its technology is found in more than 500 million products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif. with offices in more than 15 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or blogs.windriver.com.

Contact Information
Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications