ALAMEDA and MILPITAS, Calif. — June 29, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI), a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies, today announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to co-market optimized multicore hardware and software solutions. Tightly integrated solutions from the two companies will be offered for telecommunications and networking infrastructure customers by aligning long-term product roadmaps, sales and marketing, engineering resources and professional services. Wind River will commercially support the LSI family of Axxia™ Communication Processors with board support packages for its software portfolio, including the Wind River Linux and VxWorks operating system platforms and Wind River Workbench and Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging tools.

“Wind River and LSI are working to achieve greater levels of performance to address the explosion of wireless data traffic and the need for increased network intelligence,” said Mike Langlois, general manager for networking and telecommunications at Wind River. “Our commitment to build this relationship allows us to offer optimized multicore hardware and software solutions so customers can meet quality of service expectations and performance demands, and drive higher average revenue per user.”

“Networking and telecom equipment manufacturers face tremendous challenges that require proven communication processor solutions that can handle much higher packet loads with deterministic performance, helping generate more revenue with greater customer satisfaction,” said Charlie Kawwas, vice president of sales and marketing for Semiconductor Solutions Group at LSI. “Forming a strategic relationship with Wind River brings together best-in-class multicore hardware and software platform solutions our mutual customers can use to develop highly competitive next generation wireless, wireline and enterprise products.”

The combination of Wind River software and LSI hardware solutions helps build an ecosystem delivering world-class solutions for the networking infrastructure market. The integration of Wind River software with the LSI Axxia family supports the wide spectrum of network elements that network equipment providers can use to develop, optimize and test new wireless, wireline and enterprise elements.

The LSI family of Axxia Communication Processors is built on an asymmetric multicore architecture and is capable of managing huge volumes of wireless traffic at wirespeed and delivering highly deterministic performance. LSI has also developed a wide array of intelligent offload engines, including those focused on industry-proven packet classification, traffic management, wirespeed security processing and deep packet inspection. The Axxia processor family also features the groundbreaking LSI™ Virtual Pipeline™ message-passing technology, which uses distributed queue management to optimize inter-processor message routing, resulting in improved efficiency and less on-chip traffic congestion.

Wind River has a distinct advantage within the embedded industry with its comprehensive software portfolio, which includes industry-leading embedded software operating systems, runtime technologies, development tools (including virtual systems development) and an embedded test management solution, as well as a rich technology heritage of industry-specific software solutions, combined with global professional services and support.

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, Calif. — June 22, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the Wind River Simics virtual platforms for the Freescale Semiconductor QorIQ™ P5020, P5010, and P3041 multi-core processors. Simics provides Freescale customers and ecosystem partners access to a P5020, P5010, and P3041 development platforms before silicon is available, allowing them to begin evaluation and development now. Freescale introduced the advanced 64-bit dual-core QorIQ P5020 and single-core P5010 and the 32-bit quad-core P3041 processors this week at Freescale Technology Forum Americas.

“Starting with our support of the QorIQ P4080 in 2008, we have provided Simics virtual platforms to help Freescale and their customers and partners develop QorIQ based products in advance of hardware availability,” said Michel Genard, vice president, product strategy and marketing for Simics at Wind River. “With the ability to use a Simics virtual platform early in the development process, teams are able to reduce engineering costs and get to market faster.”

Simics provides the Freescale ecosystem of customers and partners a scalable platform for multi-core software and systems development. Simics offers QorIQ P5020, P5010 and P3041 developers a powerful debug platform that eases the complexities of multi-core software development. Customers can also quickly run “what-if” scenarios on their systems design without the need for physical prototyping. Highly scalable, the basic Simics virtual platform for Freescale QorIQ devices can be modified to match the customer’s specific hardware and then incorporated into a full system.

“Simics virtual platforms are vital in helping the Freescale development community get a jump-start in creating products based on our new multi-core processors,” said Preet Virk, director of strategy for Freescale’s Networking Processor Division. “Having our customers and partners simultaneously develop solutions early in the process is a huge benefit to the entire ecosystem.”

The P5020 and P5010 processors incorporate Freescale Semiconductor’s new QorIQ 64-bit e5500 core based on Power Architecture® technology. The e5500 core is engineered for next-generation, high-end control and data plane applications in networking, enterprise storage, security appliance, data center and aerospace/defense markets. It is based on e500 core technology and can run either in 64-bit or 32-bit mode, thus allowing legacy software support while providing an easy transition to 64-bit processing.

The introduction of the Simics virtual platforms for the QorIQ P5020, P5010, and P3041 processor builds on Wind River’s expansive virtual platform library, which includes the Freescale QorIQ P2020 and P4080 processor as well as thousands of models of other devices.

Additionally, Wind River plans to expand its software portfolio to also support the QorIQ P5020, P5010, and P3041 platforms.

The Wind River Simics portfolio supports a variety of hardware architectures, operating systems and tool environments and provides comprehensive virtual systems development solutions, allowing engineers to develop, debug, test and run their entire software application stack on a virtual representation of their target hardware. In February 2010, VDC Research¹ released a report from their 2009 Embedded Software Market Intelligence Service that estimated Simics to be the market-leading virtual prototyping/simulation platform, with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue.

The Wind River Simics virtual platforms for the Freescale QorIQ P5020, P5010, and P3041 processors will be available for early access to qualified customers in July 2010. Additional detail about Wind River Simics is available at www.windriver.com/products/simics.

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.

¹VDC Research, 2009 Service Year. Track 1: Embedded Software Engineering Market Technologies. Volume 5: Virtual System Prototyping/Simulation Tools for Software Development and Verification

 

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ALAMEDA, Calif., June 21, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced support for Microsoft Windows XP as a guest operating system for Wind River Hypervisor on Intel®-based platforms. Device and systems manufacturers can now run Windows XP simultaneously with other operating systems such as VxWorks or Wind River Linux on a single piece of silicon, to reduce their bill of materials, energy consumption and maintenance costs.

Wind River Hypervisor was developed from the ground up to support real-time system requirements and virtualization on single and multi-core processors, and leverages Wind River's deep expertise in advanced partitioning and safety and security critical systems from the aerospace and defense and industrial and medical sectors. With the addition of Windows XP as a guest operating system, device and systems manufacturers serving the industrial and medical market segments can integrate Windows XP alongside real-time operating systems into their projects to deliver a broader set of capabilities and develop innovative solutions to differentiate them from the competition. Examples include using Windows XP to create a graphical user interface for patient monitoring consoles or industrial control platforms while also implementing an RTOS to manage sensors and control with real-time performance, determinism and high reliability, both on the same physical single- or multi-core chip.

"Wind River is seeing significant growth in embedded virtualization adoption, among device and systems manufacturers," said Cory Bialowas, senior director of product management for multi-core and virtualization at Wind River. "Embedded virtualization creates compelling new opportunities for embedded designers, paving the way for significant cost savings through consolidation, additional feature content and greater performance when developing advanced single or multi-core systems. With the addition of Windows XP support, we expect accelerated adoption of embedded virtualization, especially in industrial and medical markets, where rich user interfaces alongside a real-time operating system are required."

According to ARC Research Director Larry O’Brien, "Virtualization is finding many adherents in the world of automation today because it has great potential to reduce total cost of ownership. What Wind River is doing with embedded virtualization, however, creates some unique opportunities that exist beyond the current offerings of virtualizing desktop applications. Wind River is bringing the world of virtualization into a realm where it can exist side by side with real-time control applications. In many ways, this is unexplored territory with many new possibilities to generate business value."

With a long track record of delivering proven multi-core and embedded virtualization technologies, Wind River’s solutions help customers reduce the risk and costs associated with developing the complex embedded systems of tomorrow. Wind River Hypervisor allows customers to adopt multi-core processors using embedded virtualization technology with reduced risk and time-to-market. To help customers manage the complexities that arise with multi-core software development, Wind River offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to effectively develop, test and debug software and simulate systems in complex multi-core environments.

Separately, Wind River also announced the latest version of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, now with OpenGL 3D graphic support, an additional offering that expands Wind River's portfolio of vertical industry solutions. Additional detail about Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.8 news is available at www.windriver.com/news/press/news-8222.

Availability
Windows XP support for Wind River Hypervisor will be available in July 2010 for single and multi-core Intel platforms that support Intel's virtualization technology, VT-x. Additional details can be found at www.windriver.com/products/hypervisor/.

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, Calif. — June 21, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the latest version of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, its solution for the development and deployment of rich graphical user interfaces for embedded devices. The updated graphics suite includes support for Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) 3D that enables highly customizable and rapid development of high-end GUIs to create improved end-user experiences across a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems, particularly in the aerospace and defense, industrial, and medical market segments.

With added OpenGL 3D support, Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite provides device and systems manufacturers with the latest graphics design advancements that will help them develop sophisticated, compelling and highly specialized end-user interface applications, including patient monitoring devices, clinical surgery system interfaces, railway operator control panels and retail terminal interfaces.

Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite offers a streamlined, codeless development environment, allowing developers to easily create, maintain and rebrand user interfaces at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional graphics software, to get to market faster. Additionally, Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite is fully integrated with the latest versions of VxWorks and Wind River Linux as well as Windows CE, Windows XP, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. Hardware support has also been broadened to now include Freescale i.MX31, Intel® Atom™ processors and Texas Instruments OMAP platforms, providing customers with choice when selecting hardware to fit their specific product needs.

"The graphics landscape for embedded devices is growing in sophistication, especially in the areas of aerospace and defense, industrial, and medical imaging," said Marc Brown, vice president of marketing and strategy for VxWorks products at Wind River. "With the addition of OpenGL support, Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite allows developers to produce incredibly rich graphics environments for embedded devices faster than ever, to help device makers stay competitive."

Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite includes Wind River Tilcon Interface Development Tool, which utilizes drag-and-drop simplicity to quickly create a complete, functional and user-friendly interface. At the heart of the Tilcon technology is Wind River Tilcon GUI Engine, which handles low-level graphics code, fonts, text, images and colors. Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite allows developers to leverage the power of OpenGL's open, vendor-neutral, multi-platform graphics standard across popular desktop and workstation platforms, ensuring that broad application deployment is possible. Wind River also provides developer tutorials for Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, with additional support available from Wind River's global technical support and services.

In a separate announcement today, Wind River also introduced a new capability to Wind River Hypervisor that enables the use of Microsoft Windows XP as a guest operating system running simultaneously with other operating systems such as VxWorks. This new capability for Wind River Hypervisor further expands Wind River’s portfolio of vertical industry solutions. Additional detail about Wind River Hypervisor news is available at www.windriver.com/news/press/news-8221.

Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.8 is immediately available to customers worldwide. Additional detail about Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite 5.8 is available at www.windriver.com/products/graphics.

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, Calif. — June 17, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced it is a Global Diamond Sponsor for the Freescale Technology Forum. The next FTF event, FTF Americas, will take place June 21—24, 2010, at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Conference Centers in Orlando, Fla. In addition to providing major support as a Global Diamond Sponsor, Wind River will be leading a variety of technical sessions, and Wind River Chief Technology Officer Tomas Evensen will be a guest speaker in the "Virtualization Technology from Low-Power Dual-Core to High Performance Eight-Core Solutions and More" executive panel session. Wind River will be featured in the Technology Lab, booths 1500-1505.

"Through FTF, Freescale Semiconductor has created a tradition of bringing together experts from across the industry to discuss current and future technology opportunities and challenges," said Evensen. "As a leader in the embedded systems market, our support for FTF enables Wind River to contribute to the advancement of the embedded industry and the development community at large. Through our work with industry leaders such as Freescale, Wind River is helping customers maximize their potential through innovations and key industry movements such as multi-core adoption and embedded virtualization."

"A critical member of the embedded technology ecosystem, we're pleased Wind River returns as a long time and high level sponsor for FTF and that they are joining us to support our solutions and customers at the Freescale Technology Forum," said Raja Tabet, software and systems vice president for Freescale's Networking and Multimedia Group. "Once again Freescale is powering innovation with a strong lineup of in-depth technical training sessions, access to industry visionaries, and networking opportunities to ensure our customers have the best possible choices to meet their design needs."

At FTF, attendees can take advantage of in-depth training on Freescale Semiconductor’s latest technologies and have the chance to engage with experts in the embedded industry from all around the world. Drawing more than 28,000 attendees worldwide since its 2005 inception, FTF brings together the embedded market's key players to drive innovation globally.

Wind River Activities at FTF Americas

Panel Discussion: Virtualization Technology from Low-Power Dual-Core to High-Performance Eight-Core Solutions and More
Date: Tuesday, June 22, at 10:30 a.m.
Location: RC Ballroom Salon III
Panel includes Wind River CTO Tomas Evensen

Technical Session: Leveraging the Wind River Hypervisor on QorIQ™ Processors
Date: Tuesday, June 22, at 11:30 a.m.
Location: Tuscany C
Presenter: Tomas Evensen, CTO, Wind River

Technical Session: The Next Generation Carrier Grade Platform
Date: Tuesday, June 22, at 4:15 p.m.
Location: Tuscany D
Presenter: Tomas Evensen, CTO, Wind River

Technical Session: Getting the Most Out of the Freescale QorIQ P4080 Processor Using Advanced Multi-core Techniques
Date: Wednesday, June 23, at 4:15 p.m.
Location: Tuscany C
Presenter: Felix Baum, senior product manager, Wind River

Wind River Sponsored Session: Architectural Exploration for Networking Devices Using Wind River Simics Virtual Platforms
Date: Wednesday, June 23, at 2-4 p.m.
Location: Del Lago 4
Presenters: Ross Dickson, senior technical account manager, Wind River and Chad Margolin, technical account manager, Wind River

Technical Session: Debugging Multi-core Software Using a Virtual Platform
Date: Wednesday, June 23, at 5:15 p.m.
Location: Tuscany F — H
Presenter: Ross Dickson, senior technical account manager, Wind River

Wind River will also showcase several demonstrations at the Technology Lab, booths 1500-1505. Additional details regarding Wind River’s activities at FTF can be found at www.windriver.com/announces/ftf-2010/.

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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MAIDENHEAD, United Kingdom — June 15, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that VxWorks has been chosen to run Logica’s Integrity Processing Facility (IPF) check set for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). The IPF, developed and delivered by Logica, is the crucial element that validates the information broadcast by the satellites to safety critical users such as aircraft in flight or ships navigating through narrow channels.

Without EGNOS it is not possible for users such as civil aviation to rely with full confidence on satellite navigation systems like the Global Positioning System (GPS). EGNOS allows these users to count on improved accuracy of satellite navigation signals, which, in turn, reduces travel time and helps operators save fuel.

EGNOS is Europe’s first venture into satellite navigation. EGNOS signals augment the two military satellite navigation systems now operating, the US GPS and Russian Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) systems, and makes them more suitable for safety critical applications.

Consisting of three geostationary satellites and a network of ground stations, EGNOS achieves its aim by transmitting a signal containing information to increase the reliability and accuracy of the positioning signals sent out by GPS and GLONASS satellites. It allows users in Europe and beyond to determine their position within two meters, compared with about 20 meters for GPS and GLONASS alone.

EGNOS is a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission (EC) and EUROCONTROL, the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation. It is Europe’s first activity in the field of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and is a precursor to Galileo, the full global satellite navigation system under development in Europe.

“Certification for safety-critical can be a drawn out and expensive process,” said Alex Wilson, senior program manager for aerospace and defense at Wind River. “Industry-leading device manufacturers such as Logica need the robustness and support that comes from choosing an industry-leading, certification-ready solution like VxWorks to minimize risk and shorten time to certification.”

EGNOS IPF has completed safety-certification to EUROCAE ED-12B Level B (which is directly equivalent to RTCA DO-178B Level B) running on Intel® architecture, which was an important milestone in enabling EGNOS to be used for safety-critical applications.

A successful test using EGNOS to guide an aircraft during landing was carried out. An Air Nostrum Dash-8 aircraft flew four test approaches to runway 04 at San Sebastian, employing a technique called Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance (LPV). During this type of landing, a special satellite navigation receiver provides the pilot with both lateral guidance, replacing or augmenting the function of the localizer - a radio beacon that guides the plane to the runway centre line, and vertical guidance.

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, Calif. — June 9, 2010 — Wind River today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of Wind River Test Management, Wind River’s test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing. The system features dynamic analytics technology that enables run-time visibility into devices during testing to provide operational and actionable feedback that product teams can use to confidently deliver their products on time, on budget and with high quality.

Wind River Test Management delivers insights at run-time, enabling teams to make informed decisions that improve software quality and help them avoid potential delays during the testing process. Wind River Test Management lets teams execute complex tests while dynamically gathering information from the production software under test as it is running, without requiring special pre-instrumented software builds. This approach allows teams to adopt new white-box test techniques that give testers visibility into the operation of the device and help them determine the thoroughness of the tests, quickly identify defects and performance bottlenecks, and focus efforts on sections of software that are most in need of testing.

Wind River Test Management also includes special support for new iterative or agile testing methods where, unlike traditional processes where testing is relegated to the end of the development cycle when software is complete, these new approaches include repeated testing of intermediate releases. Wind River Test Management's change-driven testing features automatically inform test teams exactly what software is new and what tests need to be run to verify them.

"With device complexity continuing to skyrocket, traditional black box testing methods are inadequate to assure high quality. Development teams are increasingly delayed by late-cycle surprises and they are realizing they don't have sufficient visibility during the development cycle into whether they are meeting quality goals," said Amit Ronen, vice president and general manager for device test at Wind River. "Specifically designed for embedded device testing, Wind River Test Management allows product development teams to take action on information gathered at runtime to measure, focus and optimize their test processes."

"We've selected Wind River Test Management to help us get a clearer picture of how thoroughly we are testing our storage system software, and to reduce the number of tests required to validate each release," said Tim Staggs, senior manager of product test automation at LSI. "As we begin to incorporate it into our production software flow, we hope to increase the overall quality of our software while reducing the costs of product testing and internal tool development."

The following are key enhancements of the latest Wind River Test Management release:

• Scalability of run-time test coverage for monitoring very large applications is improved by 10 times.


• New features track code churn and enable change-based test automation to streamline iterative and agile testing.


• A new hybrid test type combines manual and scripted steps to allow sophisticated, hybrid device test sequences and facilitate migration to fully automated testing.


• A new component-based test model with file attachments allows development of more self-contained, data-driven, modular and maintainable tests.


• Improved support for multi-core devices and multi-device test beds lets teams perform complex parallel testing and runtime data collection while simplifying lab device management.



 
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Wind River Test Management is an open system that combines a scalable test execution engine, an embedded device virtual lab manager and dynamic software instrumentation technology. It takes advantage of existing test assets and can be deployed as a stand-alone system or integrated via open interfaces to add value to leading commercial tools or internally developed test environments.

Wind River Test Management complements IBM Rational Quality Manager, IBM’s quality management life cycle solution based on the IBM Rational Jazz platform. Wind River is teaming with IBM Rational to provide an embedded software lifecycle quality management solution based on the integration of Wind River Test Management and Rational Quality Manager. More information can be found at www.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/windriver/qualitymanagement/.

"We are excited to have Wind River demonstrate this integrated solution at the IBM Rational INNOVATE 2010 conference this year," said Michael Loria, vice president for IBM Rational Business Development. "Together we can help our customers deliver the highest levels of quality, while addressing project time and budget constraints."

Additionally, today Wind River released survey findings examining the current state of software quality testing in the embedded industry. After polling nearly 900 industry professionals, including executives, development managers, and quality assurance and test team leaders, the results highlighted market trends that are making the task of developing and testing software quality increasingly difficult. The combination of factors such as the growth of software and device complexity, lack of strong visibility into software quality and ever tightening product deadlines are creating new challenges that leave development teams struggling with outdated, traditional tools that are no longer optimal for the job at hand. Key findings and an executive summary for the survey are available at www.windriver.com/products/test_management/survey-0610.pdf.

Wind River Test Management 3.3 will be available to customers worldwide on June 11 2010. Additional detail about Wind River Test Management is available at www.windriver.com/products/test_management.

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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