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Wind River Announces Product Support for Intel Pentium 4 and Intel Xeon Processors
Wind River s Intel Architecture Center of Excellence program combines engineering and marketing resources to facilitate porting, optimization and distribution of Wind River s embedded software for Intel Pentium processors. The alliance has resulted in a tightly integrated software platform offering from Wind River that takes advantage of advanced features of Intel s most advanced chips to date, including VxWorks RTOS support for the Intel Xeon processor s Hyper-Threading technology.
Wind River s participation with Intel in the Center of Excellence program is ensuring that our customers have access to the most advanced software support integrated and optimized with the latest Intel microprocessors, including the Pentium 4 processor and the Intel Xeon processor, said Joe Jensen, general manager for the Embedded Intel Architecture Division. The Intel Xeon processor and the Pentium 4 processor are integral components of Intel s strategy in communications and traditional embedded markets. Having software and development tool support from a market leader like Wind River is key for our joint customers success.
We expect Intel s Pentium 4 and Xeon processors to be a key for our high-end communications customers, and having comprehensive product support has been a key initiative for our Center of Excellence development team, said Dave Sheaffer, senior director of Wind River s Strategic Alliance group. By working closely with Intel from planning to delivery, we re able to deliver a complete software development solution, integrated and optimized for these high-performance Intel processors.
Advanced Multi-Processing Support
Delivering two logical processors on a single chip that can execute different tasks simultaneously using shared hardware resources, Intel s hyper-threading technology results in significantly higher processing throughput for multi-threading and multi-tasking operations. As the first beneficiary of this new processing model, the Intel Xeon processor is extremely well suited for multi-processor applications that require the power of more than one processor. Wind River s VxWorks RTOS utilizes the virtual processing model to enable multi-processor application development and deployment. With the ability to distribute processes over multiple processors and shared memory objects, Wind River s platform provides fully integrated support for developing multi-processing applications.
Market Focus
Wind River s integrated development platform for the Intel Netburst-based Xeon and Pentium 4 processors is ideal for network service and application providers building network gateways for voice over IP (VoIP) and virtual private networks (VPNs), as well as IP routing devices and rack mounted enterprise equipment. It is also well suited for building carrier class network infrastructure equipment including core routing, switching and access equipment, carrier grade gateways for VoIP and VPNs, and chassis-based, rack mounted systems.
Availability
Wind River s Tornado AE and Tornado II development platforms supporting these processors will begin beta delivery in April 2002 and begin production shipments in August 2001. Wind River will also provide support for the Intel E7500 Scalable Performance Board Development Kit, currently being demonstrated at IDF.
About the Tornado IDE and VxWorks RTOS
Wind River's Tornado IDE has dramatically improved embedded developers time-to-productivity. One component of Tornado - Tornado Tools - comprises a comprehensive suite of core and optional cross-development tools and utilities. The other integrated components of Tornado consist of the VxWorks run-time system, a high-performance, scalable RTOS that executes on the target processor, and a full range of communications options for the target connection to the host. Tornado Tools provide a highly visual and automated environment that accelerates the development of even the most complex VxWorks-based applications. As a result, creating applications with Tornado is fast and easy for developers of all experience levels.
About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in integrated embedded software solutions for creating reliable and innovative connected devices. Wind River provides development tools, operating systems, and advanced connectivity software for use in products in network infrastructure, digital consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.
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