ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sept. 18, 2013 — Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, is a platinum sponsor of the M2M Innovation World Congress and will present an industry keynote exploring the business and design implications of the Internet of Things (IoT). Wind River will also lead industry sessions addressing IoT business use cases and challenges, as well as ways to maximize the potential of IoT during the event on September 24—26 at the Acropolis Convention Centre in Nice, France.

"Concepts and architectures around the Internet of Things are driving significant innovations in M2M communication, data analytics, cloud computing, gateways, and sensor technologies," said Dr. Gareth Noyes, chief strategy officer at Wind River. "This has resulted in the emergence of a new form of intelligence with unprecedented capabilities to optimize the productivity of processes and efficiency of decision making. With these capabilities come new challenges, as well as a host of opportunities that can be seized now by businesses of all sizes and industries."

Industry sessions

• Keynote: Business and Design Implications of the Internet of Things (Sept. 24): In addition to outlining the opportunities that come with IoT, this presentation, delivered by Dr. Noyes, will provide insight into the supply chain and the ecosystem, the Big Data paradigm, and the need for a data-centric design and model to make the data relevant.


• The Role of Technology in the Internet of Things Business Case (Sept. 25): This session will investigate the impact connectivity and intelligence have on optimizing the business process and generating new revenue, and how this new paradigm disrupts the existing business models.


• Enhancing Performance and Reliability of Offshore Wind Parks with Predictive Maintenance and Adaptive Analytics (Sept. 26): This session examines how predictive maintenance and adaptive analytics are critical to ensuring maximum performance and return on performance of the system.
  Additional conference details and full show agenda are available at www.m2minnovationworldcongress.com/program.

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.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• FITSCO passes stringent SIL4 safety integrity standard with Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform and Wind River Professional Services.
• Wind River enables FITSCO to receive safety certification in reduced timeframe and within budget.
• Company turns to Wind River for deep expertise and long-standing experience with implementation of systems requiring compliance to safety standards.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Sept. 17, 2013 – Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, announced that Shanghai Fuxin Intelligent Transportation Solution Co., Ltd (FITSCO) successfully passed the stringent SIL4 safety integrity standard in a reduced timeframe and within budget with Wind River VxWorks® Cert Platform and Wind River Professional Services for the development of its innovative rail control system, JeRail® Automatic Train Protection System (ATP Controller).

FITSCO, a transportation technology company that specializes in metro and tram signaling and communication systems solutions, needed to pass SIL assessment, a measurement for specifying the safety integrity requirements of the safety functions to be allocated to electrical/electronic/programmable safety-related systems. This required a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform for delivering applications that require certification to the international requirements of EN50128. VxWorks Cert Platform, part of the Wind River portfolio of trusted systems, was selected as a key component of the ATP Controller to enable real time requirements in a safety critical environment.

Wind River Professional Services enabled the seamless integration of the VxWorks Cert Platform safety case–the documented demonstration that the product complies with the specified safety requirements–into the ATP Controller. Specifically, Wind River Professional Services supported the specification and implementation of fault detection mechanisms under challenging safety and performance requirements, as well as the development of software interfaces to particular hardware peripherals using proven processes and tools.

With VxWorks Cert Platform and Wind River Professional Services, FITSCO’s ATP Controller was certified to SIL4, the highest level of safety integrity, and as a result was able to enter the international rail industry.

"Wind River was the only vendor with a complete solution that provided us with a holistic safety development approach, ensuring that our project development stayed within our timeframe and cost targets," said Wu Hao, general manager of FITSCO. "Wind River has helped FITSCO deliver the highest levels of safety and quality to our railway customers, and we look forward to continue working with Wind River for our next-generation ATP Controller product development."

"Compliance to safety standards such as EN50128 and SIL4 is becoming increasingly important and often a necessity for the rail industry," said Alexander Damisch, director of industrial systems at Wind River. "It is extremely gratifying to know that Wind River's trusted systems solution and services offering enabled FITSCO to meet their critical project goals of reducing development time and certification risk, allowing them to become a leading player in the global rail industry."

More information about Wind River Professional Services Industrial Transportation and Energy Practice is available at www.windriver.com/ip-services.

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.

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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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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• New Simics virtual platforms support the latest Intel architectures (IA).
• Simics source code debugger provides UEFI BIOS support.
• Simics virtual platforms for IA are available with leading BIOSes.

 

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sep. 10, 2013 — Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has expanded Wind River Simics® support for the latest Intel® processors. Additionally, the Simics source code debugger now supports the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification. Wind River is collaborating with leading independent BIOS vendors (IBVs) to include BIOSes with Simics virtual platforms for Intel architectures.

Wind River has developed Simics virtual platforms for the new Intel Atom™ C2000 processor family as well as support for future releases of:

• Intel Atom processor for embedded applications


• Intel Xeon-EP™ based server platform


• Intel Platform for Communications Infrastructure


• 4th generation Intel Core™ i7 processor


 

Simics also now provides a UEFI BIOS-aware source code debugger, making it easier for teams to debug BIOSes and firmware. Using Simics, teams can start development, testing, and debugging of BIOSes well in advance of hardware availability. The combination of early availability of Simics virtual platforms and UEFI debugging support enables IBV–or any customer writing their own BIOS–to significantly accelerate BIOS development time. By starting early and working more efficiently, teams can create a fully developed and tested BIOS that is ready to be up and running within hours of receiving silicon.

Additionally, Wind River is collaborating with leading IBVs, including American Megatrends Inc., Byosoft, Insyde Software, and Phoenix Technologies, to provide access to their BIOSes for use with Simics. The combined offering allows customers to jump directly to OS and application development, avoiding the complexity of BIOS bring-up. Customers can now receive Simics software, a Simics virtual platform of specific hardware, a binary version of a BIOS that brings up the virtual hardware, and a UEFI BIOS-aware debugger.

"As the pressures to speed time-to-market and pre-silicon development rise, our technologies and collaboration across the embedded ecosystem will help customers get a head start. This allows them to change their approach to development and identify and solve problems faster, which ultimately results in higher quality code and faster time-to-market," said Michel Genard, vice president of tools and lifecycle solutions at Wind River. "Wind River Simics empowers teams to change the rules of the development process to achieve greater efficiencies and accelerate schedules to new levels never before imagined."

Wind River Simics is a full system simulator that accelerates software development by facilitating ground-breaking development capabilities that are typically impossible with physical hardware. Using Simics, customers can employ unique techniques such as stopping an entire system, inspection of any element within the system, precise and repeatable reverse execution, and fault injection.

More information about Simics can be found at www.windriver.com/products/simics.

A demonstration of Simics will be presented at Intel booth #410 during Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco, September 10—12. For details about additional Wind River activities at IDF, visit www.windriver.com/events/idf-2013/.

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.

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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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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Open Network Software enables the creation of SDN-optimized network switches, offering true separation of networking data and control planes.
• Fujitsu is an early customer of Open Network Software.
• Software is designed to target data center use cases such as top-of-rack switches and micro-server platforms.

ALAMEDA, Calif. — Sep. 10, 2013 — Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has released Wind River Open Network Software for the development of next-generation data center switches. Open Network Software is a complete, open software environment for the creation of network switches for software defined networks and infrastructures. Early customers of Open Network Software include Fujitsu.

With the exponential growth of data and traffic, network resources and connectivity needs are being pushed to new limits. The promise of software defined networking (SDN) offers a vision for more centralized and agile network control via virtualization of data center resources. Open Network Software enables the separation of the data plane and control plane so that companies can begin to manage network services through abstraction as virtual services, and embrace technologies such as SDN and cloud computing.

A network switch software environment for true SDN switching, Open Network Software provides the tools and resources to create, modify, and update network layers' L1, L2+, and L3+ functionality. Open Network Software is designed with a flexible and modular open architecture with standard interfaces for management and control.

A future-proof solution, Open Network Software is highly extensible and allows for the seamless addition of third-party applications. It also supports an extensive suite of networking protocols. The software is well matched for use cases such as top-of-rack (ToR) switches in large data centers, blade and micro-servers, and as a platform for a variety of network appliances.

Open Network Software supports the Intel® Open Network Platform (ONP) Switch Reference Design and has been optimized for Intel hardware to provide high performance and flexibility. Additionally, Open Network Software is backed by a world-class global support organization.

"As a technology that goes hand-in-hand with cloud computing, SDN can centralize and simplify control of a network, allowing companies to increase flexibility, efficiencies, and cost and energy benefits," said Ricky Watts, general manager of switching solutions at Wind River. "By using our comprehensive, extensible, ready-to-use software, customers can easily integrate SDN switching functionality into their products and get to market faster while saving on effort and expenses."

More information about Wind River Open Network Software can be found at http://www.windriver.com/products/linux/open-network-software/ .

Wind River will be demonstrating Open Network Software at the Intel booth in the Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Community at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco, September 10—12. For details about additional Wind River activities at IDF, visit www.windriver.com/events/idf-2013/.

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.

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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

ALAMEDA, Calif. AND PHOENIX, Ariz. —September 4, 2013 — Wind River®, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has entered into a distribution agreement with Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT). Under the terms of the agreement, Avnet Embedded will market, distribute, and provide sales and product support for the full Wind River portfolio of software, related hardware, and other products to customers throughout the Americas.

Avnet Embedded focuses on providing a full suite of embedded solutions — from storage, computing, software and networking products, to disk drives, flat panels and embedded boards from industry leading suppliers. It markets, distributes and delivers support for original equipment manufacturer (OEM), embedded and commercial customers. Avnet Embedded's Rorke Global Solutions™ team can offer all of Wind River's products to deliver comprehensive solutions that integrate hardware, software and services. OEM customers may also purchase Wind River products through Avnet’s components divisions, Avnet Electronics Marketing and Avnet Memec, in the Americas region.

"With their broad customer base of OEMs and independent software vendors, Avnet has the extensive expertise and relationships to successfully sell and support Wind River's diverse product portfolio and extend our reach throughout the Americas," said Stephen Mitchener, vice president of worldwide channel sales at Wind River. "We are very pleased to expand our distribution strategy by teaming with world-class distributor Avnet, and we look forward to working with them to drive new opportunities and bring the many benefits of Wind River’s offering to the marketplace."

"The operating system is typically one of the first and most critical steps in our customers' design phase. Through our collaboration with Wind River, Avnet can now provide our customers with services and support around VxWorks®, the industry's most trusted real-time operating system (RTOS), for applications that require a predictable, deterministic, RTOS for their 'chip-down' designs. Moreover, the company's embedded Linux and Android technologies round out the operating system offering and will help us uniquely address the deeply embedded market,” said Jeff Ittel, senior vice president of embedded marketing, Avnet Embedded. “Additionally, our collaboration with Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation, reflects Avnet's commitment to a strong, continued relationship with Intel."

Wind River has a unique advantage within the industry with its market-leading operating system portfolio, which comprises run-time technologies including VxWorks, Wind River Linux, and Android technologies, as well as industry-specific software solutions, development tools and middleware, combined with global professional services and support.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 80 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's website is located at www.em.avnet.com.

About Avnet, Inc.
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers globally. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 29, 2013, Avnet generated revenue of $25.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.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 more than 20 countries. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or on Facebook.

Contact Information
Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications