NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River enables NASA program to successfully meet its goals to develop a complete simulator in a reduced timeframe and at a lower cost.
• Wind River Simics implemented as an essential component of the group’s high-fidelity simulator product.
• 80—90% of simulation models created using Wind River Simics can be reused for future missions, representing long-term cost savings for NASA program.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Dec. 17, 2012 — Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has announced that NASA's Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program is using Wind River Simics, a full system simulator, for its high-fidelity simulator product, GO-SIM.

NASA's IV&V Program was founded as part of NASA’s strategy to provide the highest achievable levels of safety and cost-effectiveness for mission-critical software. Because its primary business includes software test and verification, software simulations are an essential part of the business. For this reason, Simics has become an important component of NASA's IV&V group's GO-SIM product. GO-SIM's functions include loading and running unmodified flight software binaries, executing flight scripts, performing single-step debugging, injecting errors via the ground system, stressing the system under test, and validating findings from other analyses.

Simics enables target software to run on a virtual platform the same way it does on physical hardware. Along with Simics’ capabilities of scripting, debugging, inspection and fault injection, it enables users to define, develop and integrate their systems without the constraints of physical target hardware. Simics allowed NASA's IV&V team to simulate their target hardware, ranging from a single processor to large, complex, and connected electronic systems, and build its GO-SIM product with all the desired features.

"It is gratifying to know that Wind River has enabled the NASA IV&V group to successfully meet its goals to develop a complete simulator in a reduced time frame and at a lower cost than if it had performed traditional hardware simulations," said Michel Genard, vice president of tools and lifecycle solutions at Wind River. "In addition to minimizing target hardware dependencies by using Simics, 80—90% of the simulation models created can be reused for other missions, representing tremendous long-term cost savings for NASA."

More information about Wind River solutions for the aerospace and defense market is available at www.windriver.com/solutions/aerospace-defense/.

More information about NASA IV&V's GO-SIM product is available at www.nasa.gov/centers/ivv/jstar/ITC.html and www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtzXv-DahY.

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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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River Hypervisor enables Fujitsu to leverage both the high performance of VxWorks and open source innovation of Wind River Linux using embedded virtualization.
• By using Wind River software, Fujitsu is able to develop high-quality RAID disk storage system products rapidly and reduce costs
• Wind River commercial software delivers high performance results, flexibility and reliability, combined with the confidence that comes from market leading offerings and global support and maintenance.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Dec. 11, 2012 – Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, announced that Fujitsu, a leading Japanese information and communication technology company, relies on VxWorks® real-time operating system, Wind River Linux and Wind River Hypervisor for the development of their next generation of ETERNUS RAID disk storage systems.

As the amount of data and traffic continues to explode across the enterprise, network storage capacity and connectivity needs have grown. The trend of multicore processing has also increased software complexity, often equating to rising costs. Using virtualization, Wind River Hypervisor enabled Fujitsu to partition their Intel® multicore processor and take advantage of both VxWorks with its 64-bit computing support and Wind River Linux to create a flexible high performance storage product delivered on time and on budget. The combination of Wind River solutions, along with global customer support, helped Fujitsu reduce costs and provided a scalable architecture for future expansion.

The Fujitsu line of disk storage systems accommodates for all levels of businesses, from small to medium sized businesses to large data centers and virtualized environments that can serve capacity-intensive environments with tremendous storage density. The new line of RAID disk storage system products will be available in 2014.

“We needed a flexible and reliable development environment to manage increasing software complexity resulting from multicore deployment as well as secure performance. Wind River’s comprehensive portfolio and deep expertise helped us unlock multicore capabilities, and Fujitsu was able to significantly shrink the time and cost for development,” said Mr. Shigeo Konno, general manager of the Storage Systems Division at Fujitsu Limited.

“Having a global leader like Fujitsu relying on a variety of our technologies speaks to Wind River’s trusted software and expertise,” said Warren Kurisu, vice president of product marketing at Wind River. “By providing a comprehensive set of solutions, including the industry leading RTOS, embedded Linux and virtualization technologies and support, Wind River allows Fujitsu to streamline the development process and deliver powerful devices capable of handling the storage needs of today and future networks.”

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.

Contact Information
Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications