AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, March 24, 2010 – Today at Avionics Europe, Wind River launched its Partner Validation Program for the aerospace and defense market segment with initial partners AdaCore, aicas, ALT Software, Atego, Esterel Technologies, Presagis and PrismTech. Partners in the program will provide their software solutions integrated and validated with the latest releases of Wind River's industry leading operating systems, VxWorks and Wind River Linux. These partner software solutions are specifically developed for avionics, secure military communications, unmanned systems, and complex control systems.

"Performance, safety, and security cannot be compromised in aerospace and defense. By working with market-leading partners, we are committed to helping our customers solve critical business issues," said Rob Hoffman, vice president and general manager, aerospace and defense, Wind River. "Through the Wind River Partner Validation Program, Wind River and its partners reduce software integration risk and enable customers to rapidly deliver projects that comply with the industry's stringent safety standards RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE ED-12B Level A, and its security standards Common Criteria EAL4 and EAL6+."

The combined efforts from the Wind River Partner Validation Program will provide a steady stream of partner-validated and supported software reference platforms, allowing developers to focus on building high-value application and system capabilities, with the assurance of longevity and lifecycle support for their deployed platforms. Backed by Wind River's global support infrastructure, these joint solutions help drive down risk for challenging and complex aerospace and defense programs.

Under the program, the following partners will integrate and validate their software with Wind River's industry-leading embedded operating systems and tools:

• AdaCore: Commercial software solutions for Ada program development;


• aicas: Java analysis and development tools and fully deterministic JamaicaVM for real-time and embedded systems;


• ALT Software: Software solutions that enable 2D and 3D graphics in embedded computing system displays;


• Atego: Design and development tools and services for modeling architectures, complex mission and safety-critical systems and software, along with Ada and Java development solutions;


• Esterel Technologies: Model-based design and verification tools for critical embedded systems that typically require certification;


• Presagis: Human Machine Interface (HMI) modeling tools and graphics drivers for embedded graphics development;


• PrismTech: Middleware and tools for software defined radio and for software based communications.

Wind River introduced the Wind River Partner Validation Program in May 2009, targeting the networking and telecommunications industry, and later extended the program to the industrial and medical segments. Wind River is building on its strategy to provide customers with pre-integrated platform solutions to maximize developer productivity and minimize time to market.

More information about the Wind River Partner Validation Program and solutions for aerospace and defense are available at www.windriver.com/partner-validation/aerospace-defense.html.

Visit the Wind River booth, stand E31, at Avionics Europe to view demonstrations with partners from the Wind River Partner Validation Program, including workshops with Esterel, ALT Software, and Presagis.

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.

SUPPORTING PARTNER QUOTES
AdaCore
"As a leading supplier of Ada development tools and support services, strategic alignment with Wind River enables AdaCore to deploy its solutions on the widest customer base, on proven platforms, including VxWorks 5, VxWorks 6, VxWorks 6.6 for DO-178B, VxWorks 653, and VxWorks MILS," said Robert Dewar, CEO, AdaCore. "Our large joint customers appreciate having tightly integrated solutions that quickly enable the development and deployment of critical solutions on leading processor foundations."

aicas
"Our JamaicaVM products for running real-time Java programs in embedded systems are fully validated for Wind River's VxWorks and Linux platforms," said Dr. James Hunt, CEO, aicas. "Wind River's Partner Validation Program ensures highly integrated joint solutions that give our customers a competitive edge with faster time-to-market and lower integration costs, along with accurate and responsive support."

ALT Software
"Our global customers truly appreciate our tight integration with Wind River's certified software platforms, including VxWorks 5, VxWorks 6, and VxWorks 653," said Dan Joncas, vice president of sales, ALT Software. "With our combined certification software and hardware components, customers can quickly create complex avionics platforms that can rapidly achieve DO-178B and ED-12B certification."

Atego
"The strategic alliance with Wind River is a significant driver for Atego product development going back decades," said James B. Gambrell, executive chairman, Atego. "As a leading independent supplier of collaborative development tools for engineering complex, mission- and safety-critical architectures, systems, software, and hardware, Atego is proud to offer an expanding product line to Wind River's Partner Validation Program for aerospace and defense. The validation program provides an excellent opportunity to better serve our shared customers. Together our technologies help reduce the stress and risk of both modernizing legacy applications as well as designing next-generation systems."

Esterel Technologies
"Wind River and Esterel Technologies provide software engineers developing critical embedded applications a complete, integrated environment for mission and safety-critical systems that typically require certification," said Eric Bantegnie, president and CEO, Esterel Technologies. "Our seamless integration with both Wind River Workbench and their safety-critical operating systems and our industry-leading SCADE Suite and SCADE Display platforms provides the highest efficiency in developing next generation critical control and display systems."

Presagis
"Safety and mission-critical embedded systems powered by Presagis embedded graphics solutions and Wind River real-time operating systems are at the core of thousands of successfully deployed aircraft that have been placed into service over the last 20 years," said Robert Kopersiewich, vice president and general manager, Embedded Graphics, Presagis. "Wind River's Partner Validation Program will help to extend this track record by providing timely bi-lateral software integration and support in order to help our joint customers benefit from new product innovations sooner."

PrismTech
"The combination of PrismTech's Software Defined Radio (SDR) and OpenSplice Data Distribution Service (DDS) solutions with Wind River's broad spectrum of operating systems and development tools that are supported by all key hardware platforms, delivers the most efficient path to success in our industry," said Keith Steele, CEO, PrismTech. "Our integration and performance is tested daily, and the Wind River Partner Validation Program is the foundation of our joint value."

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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, March 24, 2010 — Today at Avionics Europe, Wind River announced the immediate availability of the latest VxWorks 653 Platform, Wind River's real-time operating system for controlling complex, safety-critical ARINC 653 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems. The new release of VxWorks 653 builds on VxWorks 653's existing support for the Freescale e600 Power Architecture, with new board support packages (BSPs) for the Curtiss-Wright Controls VPX6-185 and the Wind River SBC8641D boards, and extends hardware support to Intel® 32-bit processor architectures, including a BSP for the GE Intelligent Platforms V7768 board. Additionally, VxWorks 653 Platform now provides a new power-fail safe DO-178B file system.

VxWorks 653 is an ARINC 653, real-time operating system for safety-critical Integrated Modular Avionics platforms, used in over 180 subsystems by over 100 customers worldwide for more than 40 airframes, including the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. VxWorks 653 implements a strict two-level time and space scheduling and separation environment that supports the deployment of applications at different DO-178B safety levels on a single instance of silicon with very high performance and very low jitter. VxWorks 653 also includes DO-178B qualified development tools that allow the rapid insertion of new software modules into a shared avionics platform without forcing a re-test of the entire environment, enabling high levels of integration and system refresh.

"Our collaboration with Wind River to develop a new board support package for our VPX6-185 board demonstrates further commitment to support our mutual aerospace and defense customers," said Lynn Patterson, vice president and general manager, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing. "Together, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing and Wind River deliver proven commercial off-the-shelf solutions for safety critical applications that can help customers enjoy decreased development time and costs."

"In addition to meeting the rigorous safety requirements of the avionics industry, we are also committed to helping our customers reduce costs and development cycles," said Peter Cavill, general manager, Military & Aerospace Products, GE Intelligent Platforms. "By working together with Wind River and its VxWorks 653 Platform, we can provide our customers with the power and reliability needed to meet the stringent requirements of the industry, while helping them complete projects on time, realize cost savings and bring solutions to market faster."

Wind River is committed to enhancing its proven ARINC 653 operating system to continue to serve the needs of the avionics market. Key features of the latest VxWorks 653 Platform release include:

• Hardware support for Power® Architecture (PowerPC) broadened to include a BSP for the Curtiss-Wright Controls VPX6-185 MPC8641D-based board.


• Hardware support extended to Intel® 32-bit processor architectures, specifically for Intel® Core™ 2 and Celeron® processors, with BSP support for the GE Intelligent Platforms V7768 board.


• DO-178B File System, a power-fail safe file system ready for use in systems requiring DO-178B Level A certification. It can be used from every application partition in an IMA system, and is supported by a range of devices. The file system is an optional, add-on component, further enhancing the development capabilities of VxWorks 653 for customers and increasing their development efficiency.


• Advanced project and workflow support in Wind River Workbench that improves the ease of usability of VxWorks 653 for customers when creating, configuring and building time- and space-partitioned VxWorks 653 projects.


• Improved DO-178B Network Stack support, through the inclusion of TCP, IGMPv1, and multicast support with the UDP/IPv4 network stack.


 

All VxWorks 653 runtime components from prior releases, including the DO-178B TCP/IP network stack, are supported with an extensive set of RTCA DO?178B and EUROCAE ED-12B Level A commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) certification evidence.

"Providing customers with choice in hardware and software allows them to create solutions that can deliver better performance-to-cost ratios depending on their specific projects; it also helps to decrease overall operating expenditures," said Marc Brown, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, VxWorks Products, Wind River. "By working with industry leaders such as Curtiss-Wright Controls and GE Intelligent Platforms, we are helping customers realize efficiencies by using commercial off-the-shelf hardware solutions and the newly-enhanced capabilities of VxWorks 653 in their avionics systems."

Availability
The VxWorks 653 Platform, version 2.3, is immediately available to customers worldwide. Additional details about the VxWorks 653 Platform can be found at www.windriver.com/products/platforms/safety_critical_arinc_653/.

Visit the Wind River booth, stand E31, at Avionics Europe to view demonstrations of Wind River’s latest aerospace and defense software solutions.

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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ALAMEDA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 22, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and Cavium Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), an industry-leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership to co-market optimized VxWorks and Linux multicore solutions to networking and telecommunications customers worldwide. The companies will align long-term product roadmaps and Wind River will commercially support Cavium’s OCTEON® family of multicore processors through OCTEON II and a subsequent processor family with board support packages for Wind River’s diverse software portfolio.

“Our partnership no doubt sends a strong message to the market about our long-term commitment to support multiple generations of Cavium products, and equally significant is the importance of aligning and optimizing the two companies’ leading multicore hardware and software solutions,” said Roger Williams, vice president, Alliances and Business Development, Wind River. “Building on our long-standing relationship on a number of specific product lines serving many leading customers together, we are now tightly aligning our long-term product roadmaps to provide world-class multicore solutions, enabling customers to consistently get to market faster with superior, commercially supported solutions.”

“Through this agreement, we are strengthening our commercialization partnership with Wind River in the networking and telecommunications market segments for multicore software solutions,” said Rajiv Khemani, vice president and general manager, Networking and Communications Division, Cavium Networks. “Together, Wind River and Cavium will help our common customers get to market faster with a highly optimized solution that spans the breadth of Cavium’s multicore processors and Wind River’s embedded software portfolio. In addition to the current OCTEON family of processors, customers can expect future OCTEON processors will be supported and optimized by Wind River quickly after market launch.”

The Cavium Networks OCTEON family of Multi-Core MIPS64® processors is among the industry’s most scalable, highest-performance, and lowest-power solution for intelligent networking applications ranging from 100Mbps to 40Gbps. These software-compatible processors, with one to thirty-two cnMIPS cores on a single chip, integrate next-generation networking I/Os along with the most advanced security, storage, and application hardware acceleration, offering unprecedented throughput and programmability for the Layer 2 through Layer 7 processing requirements of intelligent networks.

Wind River’s comprehensive set of multicore software solutions deliver a flexible set of multicore software configurations, including Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP), virtualization and network acceleration and offload; Wind River Workbench, an award-winning, Eclipse-based collection of tools for optimizing multicore software design; and a choice of industry leading operating systems VxWorks and Wind River Linux.

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., March 9, 2010 — Wind River today announced it has integrated support for HP BladeSystem carrier-grade and enterprise server blades into its industry-leading Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) operating system, tools and build system. Wind River Linux is the first registered CGL 4.0 solution supported on HP ProLiant server blades for HP BladeSystem, allowing customers to standardize on one common carrier-grade operating system platform to build highly reliable network elements across different hardware platforms.

Wind River is committed to the adoption of Linux carrier-grade open platforms for the telecom server segment, allowing equipment providers and operators to achieve cost and time-to-market savings by utilizing a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) approach with volume-based servers and out-of-the-box support for Carrier Grade Linux. Wind River is currently the only embedded Linux provider offering this fully integrated solution for this class of enterprise server.

"Typically, a telecom server is simply a server being used as a telecom networking element, often in the core or edge of the network. An operating system specifically designed for carrier-grade deployments would help to maximize the reliability and performance of the entire telecom environment," said Paul Anderson, vice president, Marketing and Strategy, Linux Products, Wind River. "Bringing Wind River Linux 3.0 to HP BladeSystem server blades gives customers the variety and flexibility they need to build best-in-class products while achieving reliability, cost and performance advantages."

Wind River CGL with HP BladeSystem carrier-grade server blades provides network equipment providers and service providers the performance, cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency of proven enterprise platforms with the reliability of ETSI/NEBS Level 3 certified carrier-grade platforms. In addition, Intel® Xeon® processor family has been integrated with Wind River CGL and HP BladeSystem server blades, allowing customers to leverage investment, applications and tools across all networking devices.

Carrier-grade commonly refers to 99.999% availability in a single network element or application, meaning any one system can have no more than four minutes of downtime per year. Wind River introduced Wind River Linux 3.0 in 2009, including compliance with the CGL 4.0 specification from the Linux Foundation, a vital requirement for the high-end data networking and telecommunications segments. Having a development-ready platform helps customers reduce cost and time-to-market by allowing them to focus resources on product differentiation and revenue impacting activities, rather than reinventing non-competitive base technologies or spending time and effort on open source integration and maintenance. Wind River Linux 3.0 provides a set of pre-configured system profiles for vertical industries including the networking, aerospace and defense and industrial market segments.

To learn more about Wind River's networking solutions, visit http://windriver.com/solutions/network-equipment/.

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