ALAMEDA, Calif. and SHANGHAI, China – Sept. 20, 2011 – Wind River and Leadcore Technology Co. Ltd. today announced that the two companies have collaborated to develop a new Android system-on-chip (SoC) smartphone platform. Leadcore also implemented Wind River’s testing software to test the smartphone platform for software quality, performance and compliance with the Android Compatibility Test Suite (CTS).

China-based Leadcore, a leading solution provider of TD-SCDMA mobile phone and mobile terminals has offered its new ARM9-based SoC platform and will launch its Cortex-A9 vision later this year, aimed to further drive the adoption of low-cost Android smartphones in regional markets. Lending its extensive Android expertise and services, Wind River worked with Leadcore from the ground up to port and enable Android on Leadcore’s SoC platform, overcome technical challenges around performance optimization, and customize Android to take advantage of Leadcore’s specific SoC capabilities.

"Wind River can help customers enter desirable regional markets quickly with high-quality Android devices certified on local operator networks,” said Jerry Ashford, vice president and general manager of mobile solutions at Wind River. "Wind River provides a reliable commercial-quality Android platform that allows customers to tackle complex and expensive engineering obstacles such as integration and testing to meet tight deadlines and stay on budget."

"In these two years, Leadcore has made a focused effort on Android smartphone solutions for TD/GGE multi-mode. We were in search of a trusted partner with Android experience who could help us navigate through the complexities of Android development and testing, including Android compliance,” said Sun Yuwang, president of Leadcore. "Wind River has the proven Android expertise and deep knowledge of Chinese operator requirements. Being able to leverage the combination of both was essential for our success.”

Enabling Android on a new SoC is often a challenging process since the engineering team must determine how to test a system before it is actually functional. By taking advantage of the hardware abstraction layer test suite within Wind River Framework for Automated Software Testing (FAST), Leadcore was able to focus on low-level software development and board support package hardening. By using Wind River FAST, Leadcore streamlined its software testing process using a layered approach. Wind River FAST helps validate software quality on other layers and executes automated application-driven stress tests and performance tests. Also, for easy access and reporting of test results, Wind River FAST for Android automates thousands of heterogeneous tests and consolidates the results into a single uniform database. Wind River FAST for Android is a comprehensive automated software testing solution for Android-based devices. Throughout the entire process, Wind River provided Leadcore with its world-class support and services.

Additional information about Wind River’s Android solutions is available at www.windriver.com/solutions/mobile-devices/android.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.

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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IDF 2011, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Sept. 14, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced a version of Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging optimized for Intel® architecture. This JTAG product delivers a debug solution enabling embedded device customers across a wide range of industries to develop more effectively and efficiently for Intel-based embedded platforms.

Key new Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging highlights include the following:

• Solution optimized for embedded Intel processors including Intel® Atom™, Core™ and Xeon® processors targeted for embedded system development.


• Intel architecture views and utilities enable users to quickly assess the state of their platform, monitoring key elements such as descriptor tables, paging tables, virtual to physical memory mapping, PCI bus, and CPU and peripheral registers.


• Support for debugging dynamically loaded EFI modules and visibility into UEFI data structures enables developers to customize, optimize and debug boot-loaders, and BIOS.


• Serial peripheral interface (SPI) Flash programming streamlines the development process by eliminating the need to use a standalone flash programming tool.

“Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging allows developers deep visiblity into their embedded system during all phases of the development cycle. This is especially essential as systems become more complicated and difficult to debug, necessitating highly tuned, multi-core and OS-aware tools,” said Brian Finkel, product line manager for tools at Wind River. "Wind River continues to combine Intel technology within our best-in-class development tools for VxWorks and Wind River Linux run-time platforms and deliver tools that help customers optimize performance, improve developer productivity and shorten time-to-market for their Intel-based projects.”

With the increasing integration and reuse of software components and rise of multi-core processor adoption, systems are becoming increasingly complex. This creates challenges in diagnosing the cause of hardware and software issues. Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging addresses these challenges by providing visibility into all layers of a system to help pinpoint trouble spots in hardware and software interaction.

Based on the Eclipse platform, Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging is a standards-based graphical debugging solution that simplifies the entire embedded development lifecycle and enhances developer efficiency. Wind River's suite of development tools enable greater choice and flexibility, whether developers choose to create systems based on VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems or other operating systems.

For more information about Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging, visit http://www.windriver.com/products

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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IDF 2011, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Sept. 13, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced the latest version of its Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, a multi-core acceleration solution delivering ultrafast networking performance for network infrastructure equipment. The solution enables greater performance with the addition of packet acceleration for higher-level protocols including Layer 4 transport protocols such as UDP and TCP. This release expands hardware support for Freescale QorIQ and Intel® Xeon® next-generation multi-core processors. Optimized for multi-core silicon, Wind River Network Acceleration Platform allows network performance to scale efficiently with the number of cores in a processor.

“Network equipment providers are racing to tackle the growing challenges of delivering high-performance network products that scale to meet the exploding traffic on 3G, 4G and wireline networks,” said Mike Langlois, general manager of networking and telecommunications at Wind River. “Wind River Network Acceleration Platform allows project teams to spend their time developing high value, intelligent networking applications while easing migration to cutting-edge silicon. Wind River delivers a comprehensive network acceleration solution that fully leverages the benefits of multi-core technology for breakthrough networking performance.”

Using a multi-core asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) approach, Wind River Network Acceleration Platform enhances the standard Linux networking stack to support high-performance network acceleration capabilities far exceeding what is possible using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) mode alone. Wind River’s unique AMP approach enables packet acceleration that provides as much as 10 times the performance of standard Linux configurations. Unlike point solution software packages that can only remedy a single bottleneck to partially address performance issues, Wind River Network Acceleration Platform is an integrated solution to help eliminate bottlenecks not only in moving packets through the silicon itself, but throughout the entire networking platform.

Wind River Network Acceleration Platform Highlights:

• This pre-integrated and highly optimized runtime platform offers Wind River Linux, the embedded industry’s most successful commercial embedded Linux distribution, as the control plane operating system.


• An acceleration network protocol stack is provided for the acceleration plane that uses dedicated processor cores to offload traffic from the main Linux stack, while the overall system behaves like a single networking stack.


• Applications that are dependent on network throughput are accelerated.


• Wind River Workbench tools are available for development, run-time analysis and debugging of software running on either the control plane or the acceleration plane. Wind River Workbench works across all Wind River products to provide a consistent interface for monitoring and management.

Wind River Network Acceleration Platform integrates complex components of multi-core software, and by delivering a complete commercial software package with world-class support and services as well as a path to scale to future networking hardware platforms, Wind River helps customers cut development time and cost for high-performance networking systems. Wind River provides the necessary elements and expertise, in operating system, virtualization and networking technologies, to make high-performance systems work in a unified and smooth fashion.

For more information about Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, visit https://www.windriver.com/resources/customer-success/network-equipment . Additionally, Wind River will be at Intel Developer Forum 2011 showcasing its latest demonstrations, including Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, at booth #300.

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 on Facebook.

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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Global Corporate Communications

 

IDF 2011, SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — September 13, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today introduced Wind River Platform for Medical Devices, part of a comprehensive software portfolio designed for medical device development, including those devices requiring premarket notification, U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 510(k), or the more stringent Premarket Approval.

Wind River Platform for Medical Devices is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) development and run-time platform enabling safety and security for medical devices. The Platform is built on Wind River’s VxWorks, the industry-leading real-time operating system (RTOS), which has a proven track record for use in regulated medical devices that demand the highest levels of safety, reliability and performance. It also includes Wind River Workbench, a collection of embedded software development tools, as well as critical networking and middleware run-time technologies, such as IPsec, SSL, IPv6 and USB. Having VxWorks serve as the core of Wind River Platform for Medical Devices enables the medical device developers to focus on differentiation, while leveraging the core foundational elements of small footprint, determinism, scalability, and high performance.

An essential component of the Platform is a comprehensive vendor qualification summary (VQS), which includes documented descriptions of the controls and processes Wind River uses to design and develop its platform components. The VQS is prepared in accordance with FDA quality system regulation 21CFR820.50 Purchasing Controls, which require manufacturers to evaluate suppliers for their ability to meet specified requirements, including quality requirements.

Patrick Joda, vice president, global engineering, Varian Medical Systems, commented, “Wind River provides us with the technology platform that we rely on for the mission-critical accuracy required for our TrueBeam system for image-guided cancer treatment. Wind River has helped Varian establish a new level of synchronization between imaging, patient positioning, motion management, beam shaping, and dose delivery technologies. Building upon the reliable performance of Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS, we have created a system that is helping to redefine radiotherapy treatment.”

Wind River offers a broad portfolio of technology solutions that form a complementary solution to Wind River Platform for Medical Devices, including:

• Wind River Hypervisor, a high performance embedded virtualization solution


• Wind River Simics, a full system simulator enabling developers to simulate the functional behavior of their target hardware


• Wind River Test Management, a test automation system


• Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, a solution for the development and deployment of rich graphical user interfaces for embedded medical devices


• Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging, a hardware-assisted debugging solution


 

“Software has become the key differentiator for medical device manufacturers, and with the Wind River Platform for Medical Devices, along with our comprehensive technology portfolio, we are uniquely qualified to help companies meet relevant safety requirements and standardize on open platforms, while taking advantage of next-generation technologies,” said Santhosh Nair, director of medical solutions at Wind River. “The medical market segment is a significant growth opportunity for Wind River, and already we’re seeing 30 percent year-over-year growth in this segment. Wind River Platform for Medical Devices is the first in a series of related product introductions and enhancements for medical device manufacturers on our roadmap to address this exciting growth.”

More information about Wind River Platform for Medical Devices is available at: http://www.windriver.com/announces/platform-for-medical-devices/.

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. — September 7, 2011 — Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has extended architecture support for Wind River Hypervisor, its high-performance embedded hypervisor designed to help companies consolidate systems and adopt virtualization and multi-core technology in embedded devices. The broadened architecture support found in the latest release of Wind River Hypervisor offers a unique synergy of capabilities that will enhance the use of embedded virtualization across a wide range of market segments.

Wind River Hypervisor extends its hardware architecture support to include ARM Cortex™-A9 MPCore, providing companies in the industrial and medical market segments with the ability to run real-time applications alongside human machine interface (HMI) applications. Additionally, new support for Microsoft Windows 7 allows customers to achieve workload consolidation by running real-time applications alongside graphics-rich HMI software. Wind River Hypervisor provides the guaranteed separation and isolation on ARM, Intel and Freescale's QorIQ™, and lays the foundation for running functions requiring safety certification by government and regulatory bodies (e.g., IEC-61508), and/or security certified workloads alongside other workloads, thereby reducing certification costs and allowing for the creation of more innovative devices.

Network equipment providers will benefit from new scalability features, such as the ability to dynamically create virtual machines and migrate them between CPU cores to save power. The release also provides an internal Ethernet switch that enables users to create isolated internal networks and inter-virtual machine communication through standards-based protocols. Additionally, networking companies on Intel architecture will be able to take advantage of PCIe device isolation and partitioning with this release's support for the SR-IOV standard which offers the ability to share Ethernet devices among multiple virtual machines while maintaining hardware access speeds.

"Kontron uniquely leverages the virtualization technology of Wind River Hypervisor to enhance its line of 10G and 40G ATCA hub blades," said Benoit Robert, executive director, product management at Kontron. "The result is a more intelligently designed product that reduces both the bill of materials and the total cost of ownership for our telecom equipment manufacturer clients."
"The effective adoption and optimization of embedded virtualization and multi-core when developing embedded devices are game changers across all the markets we serve," said Cory Bialowas, vice president of embedded virtualization product management at Wind River. "Wind River's unique combination of a high-performance hypervisor, deeply integrated operating systems, and advanced graphical tools for configuring, debugging and profiling virtualized embedded targets, provide significant opportunities for companies building next-generation products."

Wind River Hypervisor is an integral part of Wind River's comprehensive embedded software portfolio. It supports virtualization and partitioning for embedded systems, provides integration with Wind River and third party operating systems, and provides a complete virtualization-aware development environment. Wind River Hypervisor allows device software developers to take advantage of multicore and virtualization to create high-performing products quickly and easily, while decreasing time-to-market and increasing product competitiveness for next-generation devices.

Wind River was recently named the embedded virtualization market leader by VDC Research Group. In VDC's 2011 ‘Virtualization for Mobile and Embedded Systems’ report, Wind River achieved the highest share of the market in 2010 with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue.

More information about Wind River Hypervisor is available at: www.windriver.com/announces/hypervisor1.3/.

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