TURIN, Italy — June 28, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, announced that Magneti Marelli Motorsport, a leading Italian manufacturer of telemetry equipment for the motorsports industry, has selected VxWorks for its telemetry devices for Formula One race cars.

Telemetry is a key factor in a winning race strategy, allowing race engineers to interpret the vast amount of data collected during a race to reach optimum performance. Magneti Marelli Motorsport needed to release a high-performance, reliable product in a very short time frame.

“Wind River provided us with VxWorks, as well as effective and efficient support during the whole project. They also ported the software to our hardware platform, keeping up with our challenging deadlines,” said Riccardo De Filippi, head of development at Magneti Marelli Motorsport. “We were really impressed by Wind River’s technology and support. Wind River allowed us to get the project completed in record time.”

“VxWorks is at the heart of the world’s most powerful and deterministic devices,” said Alexander Kocher, vice president and general manager for automotive solutions at Wind River. “When fractions of a second count, industry leaders can trust Wind River to help them achieve maximum levels of performance.”

Magneti Marelli’s telemetry units can handle thousands of channels of data, up from a few hundred in previous versions, from sensors all over the car. Cutting-edge technology in these telemetry devices such as the Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) includes a high-speed moto-generator unit to help power the car and highly dynamic sensors that must be closely monitored.

Sensor data can be sent over a variety of networks in the vehicle, including Flexray, Ethernet, CAN and ARCNET. Flexray is a time-triggered protocol geared to the specific needs of vehicle data up to 10Mbit/s, particularly the engine control unit. Ethernet provides data up to 1Gbit/s over copper wiring but with limited real-time performance at maximum speed. CAN and ARCNET are lower-rate data buses (1Mbit/s and 10Mbit/s respectively) representing a good combination of determinism, reliability and flexibility.

VxWorks allows the telemetry units to manage tasks for data acquisition, encryption and communication, and ensure that race engineers will receive the huge amount of vehicle performance data in real time to allow optimum vehicle performance on the track. Power-up time for the unit was also a substantial challenge for Magneti Marelli’s team. Data collection and communication must start immediately when the telemetry device is activated to avoid missing crucial performance metrics. With Wind River’s VxWorks and award-winning support, power-up time for the unit was reduced from several seconds to tenths of a millisecond.

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 1 billion products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with offices in more than 20 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or www.facebook.com/WindRiverSystems

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AUSTIN, Texas and ALAMEDA, Calif. — June 22, 2011 — Freescale Semiconductor and Wind River have signed an agreement that reinforces the companies' longstanding collaboration and provides advanced software solutions for QorIQ and PowerQUICC customers across Wind River's industry-leading embedded operating systems. The agreement broadens availability and improves time-to-market for developer solutions engineered to optimize the performance, ease-of-use and energy efficiency of Freescale's product families targeting networking, aerospace/defense, and other key markets.

"Wind River is an essential QorIQ and PowerQUICC partner with a long track record of support for Power Architecture®-based processors," said Raja Tabet vice president of Software and Systems for Freescale’s Networking and Multimedia Group. "This agreement enhances our joint collaboration and provides our shared customers with outstanding developer technologies that fully leverage the capabilities of our most highly advanced multicore processors."

As embedded multicore processors grow increasingly complex, operating systems and tools must be "silicon-aware" and capable of fully leveraging the advantages of highly sophisticated SoC designs. Enhanced collaboration between Freescale and Wind River is intended to address this need for the ultimate benefit of QorIQ and PowerQUICC users.

"Freescale's QorIQ products help to enhance the state of embedded multicore processing, and our continued support for this product family is important for Wind River and the larger embedded marketplace," said Jim Douglas, senior vice president of marketing at Wind River. "We are delighted to strengthen Wind River's longstanding relationship with Freescale and expand our support for the QorIQ and PowerQUICC product families."

Wind River is a presenter and exhibitor at this week's Freescale Technology Forum, booth #1400-1445.

About Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world. www.freescale.com

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 1 billion products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with offices in 20 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or www.facebook.com/WindRiverSystems.

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Beijing, China – June 8, 2011 – Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, and Beijing Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd (Beijing TCT) have partnered in the development of the Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) system employed in the Yizhuang and Changping lines of the Beijing subway network. The CBTC system, developed locally in China by Beijing TCT using Wind River’s real-time operating system VxWorks, is an automatic train control system that can handle train traffic running with targeted intervals of 90 seconds. This achievement positions China as a leader in developing and adopting highly sophisticated advanced traffic control systems.

The CBTC system underwent multiple stages prior to its actual implementation, including lab development, pilot line experiments and operation line experiments. The completion of the project demonstrates a successful and smooth cooperation from multiple parties across the government, industry, research and academic sectors. Throughout the entire development process, in addition to providing VxWorks as the foundational software platform, Wind River also delivered professional services and technical support.

“The official launch of the Yizhuang and Changping lines of the Beijing subway, operating using our CBTC system, is a significant milestone for the rail transit industry in China, for our company as well as for Wind River,” said Wang Zhiyu, director of president office at Beijing Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd. “With the help of Wind River’s robust and advanced technology, and its integrated professional services and technical support, we completed this project with great success.”

Jens Wiegand, vice president of industry solutions at Wind River, commented, “Wind River is dedicated to supporting our customers’ passion for innovation. We’re honored to have participated in this project with Beijing TCT, which has become a point of pride within the rail transit industry in China. Using Wind River’s proven solutions, device manufacturers can rapidly develop highly complex systems that also require strict safety certifications.”

With the CBTC system and its moving block signaling technology, railway trains are freed from fixed blocks and the constraint of having to detect their block sections using ground rail circuit devices. Using the CBTC system, two-way communication is maintained between the train and the ground on a real-time basis or at regular intervals to calculate the safe zone between trains. A train can be informed of the real distance between itself and the train in front of it. With this information, the system can calculate instructions for the best braking curve for the following train. This helps to expand the traffic capacity of the railway while also improving safety.

The CBTC system from Beijing TCT showcases local ingenuity and further encourages the self-development and growth of advanced rail transit operation control systems in Beijing and other cities in China. Developers from Beijing TCT standardized on VxWorks to design, implement and maintain key application software for the CBTC system given VxWorks’ set of proven, reliable and highly efficient solutions, which also fulfills the needs of an application control system requiring stringent safety standards.

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 1 billion products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with offices in 20 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or www.facebook.com/WindRiverSystems.

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ALAMEDA, Calif. — June 6, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that it has achieved "Ready for IBM Rational Software" technical validation for Wind River Test Management, a test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing. This validation provides IBM Rational customers with assurance that Wind River Test Management has met IBM Rational's requirements for safety, interoperability, and user experience, and integrates seamlessly with IBM Rational Quality Manager.

The Wind River integration enables bi-directional traceability between requirements and tests as part of the overall software development lifecycle in the Rational Software and Systems Engineering solution. Wind River Test Management allows users to discover un-tested requirements and automatically identify test suites that are impacted by requirements changes. It then generates an optimized test suite comprised of the minimum set of tests that are required to run based on code changes. By focusing test time and resources on what really needs testing, these features provide optimal balance between cost, time, quality and risk, and increased quality of software embedded in complex devices.

"We are very pleased to announce this formal validation between Wind River and IBM Rational Quality Manager, which allows us to extend our test automation specialization to Rational customers," said Ido Sarig, vice president of product marketing at Wind River. "A lifecycle quality management solution based on the integration will help companies improve their ROI and collaboration across the development lifecycle, reduce costs by increasing automation, and provide better visibility to project status, leading to higher quality and on-time deliveries."

"The integration of Wind River's patented technology with Rational Quality Manager will help product development teams manage business risks using a lifecycle quality management approach," said Michael Loria, vice president, IBM Rational Business Development. "With this integrated solution, users can provide quality management across the whole development lifecycle through the Rational Software and Systems Engineering solution, as well as execute testing where it matters most."

Wind River will present and exhibit at IBM's Innovate 2011 Conference in Orlando, FL this week. Please visit Wind River Booth #524 to see a demonstration of Wind River Test Management and the integration with IBM Rational Quality Manager. Additional information 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 1 billion products. Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with offices in 20 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or www.facebook.com/WindRiverSystems.

 

 

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