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Wind River Helps Overcome Hurdles in Software Testing to Speed Android Device Development

ALAMEDA, Calif. — July 13, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the immediate availability of Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST) for Android, an automated software testing solution for Android-based devices. Wind River FAST can be customized for leading silicon architectures, across any device manufacturer or operator in need of testing Android software stacks. The test solution streamlines and automates the software testing process, reduces the time and cost to develop Android devices, helps to improve software quality and stability, and helps users verify and prove compliance with Android Compatibility Test Suite, or CTS.

Testing is often the most time consuming and expensive process during device development and Wind River FAST can help operators, device manufacturers, independent software vendors and silicon providers in need of testing Android-based devices. Wind River FAST reduces the time and costs associated with testing software by automating thousands of heterogeneous tests and then consolidating the results into a single uniform database, easily accessible using virtually any reporting tool. By implementing Wind River FAST, device manufacturers can focus efforts and resources on critical issues such as developing unique features that differentiate their mobile devices from the competition and verifying Android compliancy, instead of spending a majority of their development time on testing.

"Drawing from our years of experience with open source Linux and Android, Wind River FAST was designed to help customers manage the complexities of Android software testing and get them on track to deliver products on time, with the highest possible quality," said Michael Krutz, vice president of worldwide solutions and services at Wind River. "By taking advantage of a reliable, commercial-quality test solution, customers can avoid the unpredictability associated with delivering products based on open source software, and save on cost and engineering effort by automating lengthy processes and large scale test result management and analysis."

In developing Wind River FAST, Wind River has invested in authoring thousands of tests that span a wide range of categories including device performance such as graphics and boot-time, interoperability such as for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, telephony and board support package tests, as well as many other test categories. Wind River’s expansive test library provides broad coverage of tested code from low level, middleware and up to the application level. Also, Wind River has extensive experience in mobile systems integration with expertise in user interface design, multimedia support and power management, and is able to offer services tailored to the needs of mobile device development, including subsystem optimization, services integration and application migration.

The following are additional benefits of Wind River FAST:

  • Helps improve software quality by providing a commercial-quality test solution, offering thousands of Wind River-authored automated tests specifically designed to rapidly test an open-source-based device

  • Allows device manufacturers, mobile operators, silicon manufacturers and software developers to combine the Android CTS and open source tests with existing operator device acceptance tests into an automated test solution to analyze the functionality, performance and stability of the entire device as well as check the device’s compliance with the Android standard

  • Helps manage the vast number of tests currently used in the open mobile market and allows customers to integrate their legacy test suites into FAST for full testing automation


In addition to supporting Android testing, Wind River is using its expertise in other mobile and automotive infotainment Linux platforms such as MeeGo and GENIVI to look into extending Wind River FAST to those areas.

With the introduction of Wind River FAST, Wind River expands its mobile software portfolio and complements Wind River Platform for Android, a validated and fully compliant software platform based on the latest versions of the Android software development kit. Wind River Platform for Android is a commercial-quality solution that enhances device delivery predictability and software quality for Android projects. Wind River is a founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, joining in 2007 as a Linux commercialization partner.

Wind River FAST is now available for evaluation to customers worldwide. Additional information about Wind River FAST is available at www.windriver.com/announces/fast/.

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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Wind River Introduces First Embedded Linux Operating System to Be Accepted for EAL4+ Certification by NIAP

ALAMEDA, Calif. — July 12, 2010 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that Wind River Linux Secure, a secure embedded Linux, is in evaluation by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) to be certified to Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+), conforming to the General Purpose Operating System Protection Profile. In addition, Wind River Linux Secure is officially listed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a cryptographic module accepted for evaluation to the FIPS 140-2 standard. Wind River Linux Secure is expected to be available in the first half of 2011 pending certification completion.

Upon certification completion to Common Criteria EAL4+, Wind River Linux Secure is expected to be the first commercial embedded Linux operating system accepted by NIAP, enabling Linux to be deployed securely on hardware from multiple vendors, including Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments Incorporated. The certified open standards platform, with full traceability to source code for all Linux modules, will provide greater flexibility, interoperability and transparency in developing secure software systems, resulting in faster time-to-market and lower development costs.

"Wind River is committed to delivering software designed to comply with national security criteria to meet diverse customer needs," said Chip Downing, director for aerospace and defense at Wind River. "As the first and only commercial Linux vendor to produce an embedded Linux solution in evaluation to Common Criteria EAL 4+, Wind River will be providing customers with a wide choice of hardware platforms for secure applications such as military communications and software-defined radio systems. Additionally, with security mandates and tighter regulations on the rise across industries, the potential to use embedded Linux in secure solutions for networking infrastructure, energy and medical systems is tremendous."

Wind River Linux Secure provides companies with government-mandated security certification requirements, such as Common Criteria EAL4+ and FIPS 140-2, with a secure, commercial, general-purpose embedded Linux operating system. In addition to conforming to Common Criteria requirements for EAL4+, Wind River Linux Secure also provides an additional layer of security through mandatory access controls, or MAC, along with enabling NSA-developed Security Enhanced Linux, or SELinux. With Wind River Linux Secure, companies can expect to meet their security needs as well as choose the best software for the job from a surplus of mature and widely used Linux-based open source solutions on a wide range of hardware platforms.

To reduce the risks typically associated with open source software, the tested and validated product is also backed by Wind River's global support and services organizations. Companies requiring an EAL4+-certified Linux distribution can simply use Wind River Linux Secure instead of undertaking Common Criteria and FIPS security certification directly and avoid the high-risk, formal certification process.

The Wind River Linux Secure product is rich with security features, including identification and authentication, audit, discretionary access control, cryptographic services, security management as well as security function protection. Also, for additional security needs, customers will also be able to take advantage of multilevel security through SELinux, run-time memory protection through grsecurity and several system recovery tools.

For its Common Criteria EAL4+ evaluation, Wind River has selected atsec information security, industry-leading experts in software information assurance, as the Common Criteria Test Lab to conduct the independent evaluation of Wind River Linux Secure. Atsec information security has valuable experience in evaluating Linux operating systems for medium robustness as per the Common Criteria guidelines.

Separately, Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform is listed by NIAP as being in evaluation to EAL6+/NSA High Robustness under the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme. Wind River VxWorks MILS Platform delivers the security foundation that aerospace and defense companies need to meet the real-time operating system requirements for multilevel secure systems and cross domain solutions.

Availability
Wind River Linux Secure will initially be available on selected platforms of Intel® architecture, Power Architecture® and ARM®. The introduction of Wind River Linux Secure is expected in the first half of 2011. Wind River offers customizations for embedded hardware platforms to support advanced security certification needs for customers and partners.

To view Wind River Linux Secure listed on NIAP's site, visit http://www.niap-ccevs.org/in_evaluation/ and on NIST's site, visit http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/140-1/140InProcess.pdf .

To learn more about Wind River's aerospace and defense solutions, visit www.windriver.com/solutions/industries/aerospace-defense

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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Wind River Introduces World’s First Wurldtech Achilles Certified Real-Time Operating System

ALAMEDA, Calif. and VANCOUVER, Canada – July 12, 2010 – Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and Wurldtech Security Technologies, provider of cyber security testing and certification solutions for critical infrastructure industries, today announced that Wind River's VxWorks is the first real-time operating system to be certified under Wurldtech's Achilles certification program, an internationally recognized standard for industrial cyber security. This will enable Wind River’s customers in the process automation, power and energy, oil and gas, transportation, and medical market segments to deploy VxWorks with certified defenses against cyber attacks. VxWorks meets the Achilles certification conformance requirements at Gigabit Ethernet, passing both 100Mbit and 1GigE certifications, which are recognized by most industrial and medical manufacturers to defend control devices against increased exposure to cyber security attacks. The Achilles Certified designation has been integrated as a mandatory selection requirement by many of the world's largest industrial organizations, from all critical infrastructure sectors such as Shell and Total, and has already been implemented in more than 14 industrial control systems from manufacturers such as ABB, Honeywell and Emerson. Achilles certification directly addresses cyber security at a time when accessible, affordable, high-speed connectivity has created increased vulnerability to malicious cyber attacks. Now Achilles Certified, VxWorks allows developers to build secure devices conforming to the Achilles certification, leveraging a prevalidated, real-time operating system that limits unpredictability, compared to a noncertified operating system or application. Application developers can now utilize a platform that has already been certified by a trusted third party, bringing more predictability to a time-consuming, complex and costly process. Developers can rely on the Achilles Certified platform, with included networking stack, to be a trusted component of their overall end product and can benefit from faster time-to-market, lowered development and certification expenditures, as well as less overall risk of cyber attacks. "As cyber threats to mission-critical systems continue to grow in frequency and complexity, it is critical to have a secure infrastructure that protects vital data against hackers," said Jens Wiegand, general manager of industrial and medical solutions at Wind River. "Having achieved the Achilles Certified designation from Wurldtech, our customers can now develop their entire device on a secure, certified, out-of-the-box platform, while minimizing the final certification process, shrinking application development time, driving costs down and increasing competitive advantage in a global market." "The security and robustness of critical digital infrastructures must improve given the evolving nature of cyber risk and the increasing cost to end users associated with disruptions to industrial operations or breaches in data integrity," said Dr. Nate Kube, chief technology officer of Wurldtech Security Technologies. "Suppliers integrating VxWorks into their critical control systems will now have an additional level of assurance that network stack communications are safe, secure and reliable. We are pleased to collaborate with Wind River and will continue to address key challenges facing embedded device makers against cyber attacks." Availability Achilles Certified VxWorks1 is immediately available to customers worldwide. Additional details about VxWorks are available at www.windriver.com/products/vxworks. About Wurldtech Security Technologies Wurldtech Security Technologies provides proactive technology solutions designed to identify the presence of and mitigate against cyber vulnerabilities that can impact safe, secure and reliable industrial operations. Wurldtech's product portfolio is designed for suppliers of industrial devices, systems and applications used in, and the end users/operators of, high-availability process control networks primarily in critical infrastructure sectors such as energy (oil and gas) and power (electric utilities, nuclear). 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.

1 Wurldtech Achilles certification program has certified VxWorks 6.8.1, a component of the Wind River Platform for Industrial Devices, VxWorks Edition 3.8

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