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Wind River Test Management Reduces the Risk of Defects in Untested Code

ALAMEDA, Calif. — August 22, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today introduced the latest version of Wind River Test Management, a test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing. The full-featured test management solution identifies high-risk segments in production code, enabling optimized testing that focuses just on changes between builds.

The patented dynamic instrumentation technology found in Wind River Test Management 4.0 enables test coverage at the branch and block level, working directly on optimized production binaries. In addition to its capability to analyze production code to understand changes between builds, the system highlights areas of the application that are impacted by changes and focuses the testing resources on those higher-risk segments. The Automatic Test Suite Generator module acts as a Decision Support System and drastically reduces risk and test cycles by creating an enhanced test suite according to customer defined rules and constraints.

The latest version of Wind River Test Management also provides an open framework for custom integration to any third-party test management, defect tracking, and requirement management application, as well as specific integration add-ons for IBM Rational Quality Manager, IBM DOORS, IBM ClearQuest and HP Quality Center.

"Wind River Test Management has tremendously helped us improve the productivity of our firmware testing team, significantly reducing the overall development cycle time. And although we already had more than 20 tools as part of our test and development process, test plans and test results were still mostly paper based," said Gustavo Perez, general manager of CT engineering at GE Healthcare. "Wind River Test Management easily integrates with our existing solutions, such as HP Quality Center, to provide a complete automated regression testing suite running tests remotely on the target and collecting valuable metrics for tracking test progress and software quality. GE Healthcare operates on a 'zero defects' policy and Wind River helps ensure that this policy is met much faster than before."

"To manage costs and product defect risks with increasingly aggressive time-to-market goals, device manufacturers are turning to new automation tools that help them monitor, manage and improve the testing process," said Ido Sarig, vice president of product marketing at Wind River. "The new features in Wind River Test Management help reduce the risk that defects in untested code will slip through unnoticed, with potentially grave consequences. They also provide bottom-line payback by enabling product companies to generate significant business value through more predictable development and reliable delivery of higher-quality products at a lower cost and with less risk."

Other key features of Wind River Test Management 4.0 include:

  • A complete device reservation and scheduling system as part of the Virtual Lab Manager (VLM), which enables future device reservations and a visual scheduler

  • Test case versioning for test cases and scripted test components, that preserves change history to support various regulatory standards for auditing and access control

  • Support for systems with short time frame “watchdog” or “heartbeat” utilities, which further improves scalability and response time to enable the instrumentation of 70,000 functions in less than one second


More information about Wind River Test Management is available at www.windriver.com/announces/test-management4.0/.

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.

Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Wind River Unveils Graphics-Rich Linux Platform

LINUXCON NORTH AMERICA, Vancouver, BC – August 17, 2011 – Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the immediate availability of Wind River Linux 4, Update Pack 2, the latest release of its commercial embedded Linux runtime and development platform. It is the first commercial embedded Linux to provide a fully integrated graphics software stack, from the board to the user interface framework level, for the latest Intel and Texas Instruments' processors.

The pre-integrated graphics stack within Wind River Linux includes GTK, Qt, X.Org and the Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite. It works out of the box using the latest hardware and graphics drivers, including Intel® Embedded Media and Graphics Driver on Intel® Atom™ processor with OpenGL and PowerVR driver on Texas Instruments' (TI) AM35x, AM37x, AM389x TI Sitara™ ARM® microprocessors and OMAP35x processors with OpenGL ES. This stack bundles the latest versions of popular graphics applications and is optimized for embedded development. In addition, Linux Standard Base (LSB) certification assures compatibility with all LSB-compliant third-party applications.

"As deeply embedded devices become more connected and complex, there is an increasing move towards richer graphics and more sophisticated user interfaces across a wide range of industries. We’re rising to meet this need with the industry's first commercial embedded Linux to provide a pre-integrated hardware-through-middleware graphics stack for multiple hardware platforms," said Paul Anderson, vice president of marketing and strategy for Linux products at Wind River. "Our latest update pack adds significant new functionality, usability improvements and hardware support to our Wind River Linux offering, and empowers UI and HMI designers to create rich graphics with a smaller footprint, faster performance and lower power consumption than do-it-yourself alternatives."

"Wind River's introduction of a fully integrated graphics stack delivers significant benefits to customers and enables important open source technologies for the industry," said Vasu Jakkal, senior marketing manager of low power embedded software, Intel. "With Intel's Embedded Media and Graphics Driver, the latest release of Wind River Linux will give device manufacturers across a wide range of market segments the technology they need to rapidly build secure, reliable, graphics-optimized next-generation devices at a lower cost."

"TI is continually seeking to add value to its complementary software offering to make embedded processing design even easier," said Jake Alamat, director, marketing, Sitara™ ARM microprocessors, Texas Instruments. "Wind River's Linux 4.2 integrated graphics stack works with our TI-provided Linux SDK and is bundled with our PowerVR driver to enable fast development of secure next-generation devices with high-end graphics."

Other key features of Wind River Linux 4, Update Pack 2, include:

  • Web 2.0 Cross Web Development Toolkit that enables developers to debug, deploy and test directly on targets using HTML/Javascript and web page rendering languages.

  • Qt Development Toolkit optimized for embedded development, which can significantly increase productivity, reduce costs and shorten time to market.

  • New security features, including strongSWAN, an open source VPN solution that improves IP security; and a new SEEdit feature that gives users simplified language for creating and editing the security policies that keep systems safe.

  • Workbench enhancements and new tools for Linux developers for streamlined Linux development.


Concluded Anderson, "Wind River Linux continues to deliver the best of open source technology, integrated and optimized for embedded development. We continue to evolve and enhance our Linux platform to help bring together all the components that companies need to develop, test and support world-class products quickly and cost-effectively."

Wind River Linux was recently named the embedded Linux market leader for the third consecutive year by VDC Research Group. In VDC’s 2011 Linux in the Embedded Systems Market report, Wind River achieved the market share lead in 2010 with greater than 30% of total market revenue, more than two times the market share of the next closest competitor.

More information about Wind River Linux is available at: www.windriver.com/announces/linux4-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 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.

Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Intel and Intel Atom are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel in the United States and some other countries. Other names may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

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Wind River Delivers Software Foundation for the Next Generation of In-Vehicle Infotainment Devices

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

  • Wind River's latest IVI software platform enables auto OEMS and Tier 1 suppliers to accelerate the rate of innovation and time-to-market.
  • Wind River Platform for Infotainment is among the first solutions compliant with the GENIVI industry standard.
  • Wind River is a founding member of the GENIVI Alliance, and counts more than two-thirds of GENIVI's OEM and Tier 1 members as Wind River customers.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Aug. 2, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced the latest version of Wind River Platform for Infotainment, a software platform on which automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 suppliers can develop sophisticated in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) devices. Coupled with Wind River's rapidly growing ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs), Wind River Platform for Infotainment helps automotive OEMs and their suppliers develop feature-rich applications that address increasingly technology-savvy consumer expectations. Wind River’s infotainment platform supports multiple hardware architectures including leading ARM and the Intel® AtomTM processor-based platforms accompanied by a variety of software development and test tools.

Beyond traditional navigation and telematics capabilities, Wind River Platform for Infotainment also enables OEMs and their suppliers to deliver top-of-the-line features such as high-end multimedia, Internet access while maintaining strong security standards, and wired or wireless connectivity options that are in line with the growing consumer electronics demands of device convergence and ubiquitous connectivity. By providing a commercial software product compliant with the GENIVI open source platform, Wind River Platform for Infotainment delivers the benefits of open source innovation with a proven commercial Linux offering. In addition to an integrated, tested and validated IVI software platform, Wind River offers world-class customization and consulting services and global support, which help in the management of highly detailed requirements and complex project planning.

"Wind River Platform for Infotainment provides automotive equipment manufacturers with a solid technology foundation to build the next generation of IVI devices and allows them to focus efforts on further innovating their products and distinguishing themselves from the competition," said Michael Krutz, vice president of worldwide solutions and services at Wind River. "By using open source software based on the GENIVI standard and working with a rich ecosystem of automotive software partners, Wind River is helping accelerate innovation within the industry while also giving customers the critical jump-start in development to enable them to significantly reduce their time-to-market and lower costs."

New features for Wind River Platform for Infotainment include the following:

  • Support available for multiple hardware architectures, including ARM and Intel® Atom™—based architectures

  • Ready-to-go iPhone and iPod support that allows suppliers to easily integrate related solutions and reduce bill of material costs, and simulation of the iPod interface on the IVI head unit, or "iPod Out" feature

  • An application framework that is specially designed for easy development of applications and graphical user interface creation

  • Wind River Hypervisor support that enables embedded virtualization for multi-OS capabilities within the control module or head unit of the IVI device


Wind River Platform for Infotainment is among the first GENIVI-compliant automotive solutions. The GENIVI Alliance is a nonprofit organization committed to driving the broad adoption of an in-vehicle infotainment reference platform. A founding member of the GENIVI Alliance, Wind River plays a key role in this consortium by developing, integrating, testing and contributing key automotive middleware and hardware integration components. Wind River has a strong history of automotive expertise and innovation, and currently more than two-thirds of the GENIVI Alliance's OEM and Tier 1 members are customers of Wind River’s leading-edge and proven technologies and services. For further information on GENIVI's compliance program and current list of GENIVI complaint products, visit http://www.genivi.org/compliance.

Wind River is growing its ecosystem of third-party independent software vendors that includes industry-leading application-specific software and middleware that has been validated or integrated with Wind River Platform for Infotainment. With more than 30 ISVs currently in the Wind River automotive ecosystem, Wind River offers device manufacturers a diverse catalog of solutions that can be rapidly and cost effectively integrated into their final devices. Wind River integrates, tests and validates third-party software components to help customers reduce development cycles. Partner software solutions include GPS/navigation, Bluetooth and speech recognition, and a wealth of others.

"Through our work with Wind River, Cybercom is able to offer customers Bluetooth solutions that can be quickly and efficiently rolled into their IVI devices," said Kristian Palm, Bluetooth Solutions Business Manager at Cybercom Group. "By using a prevalidated solution, equipment manufacturers can spend less time on integration and complete their products faster and at lower cost.”

For additional details about Wind River Platform for Infotainment, visit www.windriver.com/solutions/automotive/infotainment.html.

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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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications