NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• New features include increased simulation performance and expanded capabilities for enhanced access, collaboration, automation, and ease of use.
• Simics makes it possible and practical to design, develop, and thoroughly test large and complex IoT systems.
• Simics facilitates Agile practices to help customers unlock transformative development processes.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – Jun. 30, 2015 – Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has introduced the latest version of Wind River Simics®. Simics accelerates software development by delivering ground-breaking development capabilities and facilitates Agile software practices through the use of simulation technologies.

The latest updates to Simics include accelerated simulation performance and expanded capabilities for enhancing access, collaboration, and automation for software developers. Additionally, the process for modeling, debugging, and model asset reuse has been further improved to deliver a simpler user experience. Other new improvements provide additional capabilities enabling agile and automated testing with shorter feedback loops.

New features include the following:

• Greater performance: Simulation performance has been enhanced for tightly coupled multi-core and multiprocessor systems on multi-core hosts. Testing on parallel workloads shows performance increases of up to seven times when simulating an eight-core Linux symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) target on an eight-core host. Coupled with its existing performance technologies, Simics can efficiently simulate ever more complex targets to deliver the benefits of simulation for any target system.

• Easier test automation: Simplified scripting interfaces and fault injection framework allow easier use of Simics in test automation environments.

• Simpler collaboration: A checkpoint server allows easier management of checkpoints across teams. Users can share the system state of their simulations with others.

• Additional quick-start platforms: Immediate access to three quick-start platforms (Intel®, ARM®, and Power) allows every Simics user to enable early prototyping and tooling integration.

• Improved modeling support: Enhanced support for SystemC models with a new SystemC library and improved debugging tools help teams get models up and running quickly.

IoT and intelligent systems are pushing the boundaries for developers, creating challenging demands such as increasingly complex designs, greater intelligence and connectivity, and tightened development schedules. As development timelines become tighter, IoT developers are turning to Agile practices, which require constant on-demand access to the system, more efficient and faster collaboration between teams, and higher levels of automation.

“IoT is pushing the embedded community to re-evaluate the development lifecycle,” said Chris Rommel, vice president for IoT and Embedded Technology at VDC Research. “The increasing scale and complexity of IoT systems are forcing developers to adapt. Agile practices are one of the methods more engineers are now using to address these process challenges and improve access, collaboration and overall development efficiencies across their teams.”

“The demands of creating IoT systems are necessitating new development processes. As innovation cycles become shorter, embedded developers must increasingly adopt Agile and continuous practices,” said Michel Genard, vice president and general manager of system simulation at Wind River. “Simics continues to open up new possibilities for Agile development and allows teams to accelerate their timelines, as well as successfully design and test IoT scenarios virtually impossible to replicate via traditional methods. We’re committed to constantly growing our capabilities and investigating new opportunities such as the cloud to offer innovative methods to bring our virtual environment technologies to wider audiences.”

Able to simulate nearly anything, from a single chip to systems of any size or complexity, Simics provides the access, automation, and collaboration required to implement Agile development practices and to continuously deliver better software, faster. By working from virtual models and eliminating the need for physical hardware (and its limitations) during development, simulation can accelerate development and transform how businesses operate. Developers can push automated testing much sooner in the development cycle, and perform both testing and debugging during design and prototyping phases. All team members can have unlimited access to virtual hardware, allowing new ways of working and improved collaboration throughout the entire lifecycle. Ultimately, developers can dramatically reduce risks of shipping late, overrunning budget, and sacrificing quality.

Simics is part of the Wind River Helix™ portfolio of products enabling IoT advancements. To learn more about how Wind River is addressing the opportunities and challenges of IoT, visit http://tinyurl.com/WindHelix.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit www.windriver.com.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River Marketplace allows customers to enhance VxWorks implementation with best-of-breed solutions from Wind River partner ecosystem.
• VxWorks app store includes packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools.
• Wind River demonstrates continued innovation for its industry-leading real-time operating system with latest initiative.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – June 16, 2015 – Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has introduced an app store for its VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River Marketplace helps customers find and evaluate best-of-breed add-on solutions from the Wind River partner ecosystem in order to enhance their VxWorks deployment. Tested and validated by Wind River for seamless interoperability with VxWorks, the solutions found in Wind River Marketplace enrich the VxWorks operating environment with categories of packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools. Customer benefits include simplified “try-before-buy” options, a modern app store experience, and easy installation and evaluation of complementary software. Via Marketplace, Wind River also houses an extensive range of board support packages (BSPs) in the embedded software industry to aid with board bring-up and design. “With the synergy and validation already achieved for Wind River Marketplace products, customers get almost immediate access to best-in-class embedded technologies to easily enhance the operating environment and accelerate market deployment,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind River. “Marketplace creates a robust ecosystem offering for our customers, and provides our partners with a unique opportunity to showcase their products and distribute evaluation versions to our vast customer base.” Recognized as an industry-leading RTOS, VxWorks delivers deterministic performance and sets the standard for a scalable, future-proof, safe, and secure operating environment for connected devices in IoT. More information about Wind River Marketplace is available at http://tinyurl.com/WRMarketplace. To learn more about VxWorks visit http://tinyurl.com/WRVxWorks. About Wind River Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit www.windriver.com.

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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. QUOTE SHEET: “Core Avionics & Industrial is pleased to be chosen by Wind River to supply OpenGL safety critical drivers and certification artifacts for Intel CPUs deploying the HD4000 graphics core through the Wind River Marketplace. We have worked on many projects over the years with Wind River, however, this is our first cooperatively developed and marketed product, making our addition to the Marketplace a significant milestone.” - Lee Melatti, CEO, CoreAVI “The launch of the Wind River Marketplace is a significant achievement in the embedded computing market segment. This event is particularly timely with the explosion of touch screen user interface applications. We look forward to developers using this app store to see how easy it is to utilize our tools to produce high-fidelity safety critical 3D user interface graphics for the automotive, aerospace, medical, and industrial controls industries.” - Joe Swinski, CEO and co-founder, DiSTI “LDRA is proud to be chosen as the software verification tools for the VxWorks robust ecosystem via the Wind River Marketplace. Software complexity has risen steeply, introducing greater risks for technology providers; well-integrated tools that help companies implement high-quality applications that are secure, standards compliant and requirements driven, provides additional assurance that systems are reliable and safe while minimizing development costs.” - Ian Hennell, operations director, LDRA “McObject is excited to be included in the launch of Wind River Marketplace and to offer eXtremeDB – the first database management system (DBMS) designed specifically for embedded systems – and related resources from the site. Embedded systems manage more data than ever before. With this new distribution channel, McObject can offer more developers a proven DBMS with benefits that complement VxWorks’ advantages, including faster time-to-deployment, lower RAM and CPU demands, and ‘five-nines’ (99.999% uptime) or greater fault-tolerance.” - Steve Graves, CEO and co-founder, McObject “We are pleased that Tracealyzer for VxWorks and Linux has been recognized as a best-of-breed solution for the new Wind River Marketplace. Wind River Marketplace is a major resource for both users and partners, and a perfect venue for Percepio to showcase its industry-leading RTOS tracing and visualization tools.” - Mike Skrtic, marketing and sales manager, Percepio AB “We are very pleased to be a featured partner on the new Wind River Marketplace, building on a long history of successful integrations between our technologies. The direct availability of Cantata for VxWorks 7 offers new added value to our joint customers, enabling them to prove C/C++ code with integrated dynamic testing in the most cost effective way.” - Andreas Sczepansky, CEO, QA Systems “The Wind River Marketplace makes it easy for customers to get started with RTI's market-leading connectivity platform for the Industrial IoT. We are pleased to partner with Wind River to simplify the installation and evaluation of our Connext DDS product and to accelerate the time-to-market of IoT solutions." - David Barnett, vice president of products and markets, Real-Time Innovations “The Wind River Marketplace provides The Qt Company a great way for VxWorks customers to discover the benefits of developing amazing and highly-performing UI’s with Qt. Via the Marketplace, we are able to showcase the bountiful benefits Qt brings to embedded UI development where customers can evaluate our product and directly see how quick and easy it is to create highly-performing, smooth graphics and get to market faster.” - Kristen Tveter, senior partner manager, The Qt Company "Vector Software is pleased to be a featured partner in Wind River's Marketplace. Our VectorCAST test automation platform has supported all versions of Wind River's products for over 15 years. VectorCAST's integration with VxWorks provides perfect fidelity with customers' operating environments for testing embedded safety-critical or IoT applications.” - William McCaffrey, COO, Vector Software

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