Wind River VxWorks 6.8 Broadens Multicore Capabilities and Processor Support

PressRelease by Wind River GmbH

VxWorks 6.8 Expands Multicore Processor Support to Include the Latest Processors from ARM, Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and RMI

(firmenpresse) - Ismaning, January 13, 2010 - Wind River today announced the immediate availability of VxWorks version 6.8, the embedded industry's leading real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River’s continued investment in VxWorks has delivered improvements in multicore support and fundamental operating system features, decreasing time-to-market while lowering costs and improving quality for device manufacturers.

VxWorks is a proven, high-performance, reliable, commercial-grade real-time operating system addressing the diverse needs of embedded systems. VxWorks 6.8 provides product differentiation via increased performance, a smaller footprint and hardware platform flexibility. Wind River’s newest version of VxWorks also provides choice in multicore architecture allowing customers to select the right solution for their needs. Improved OS primitives, USB support and file system performance with VxWorks 6.8 provide customers with increased product quality, more compatibility and improved product performance.

“Wind River’s continued investment in VxWorks is providing the market with a proven and trusted solution for embedded systems including multicore devices. With each release of VxWorks, Wind River continues to improve performance and broaden hardware support to enable the next generation of devices,” said Marc Brown, vice president, marketing and strategy, VxWorks Product Division, Wind River. “VxWorks 6.8 also demonstrates Wind River’s commitment to delivering a comprehensive solution for embedded systems.”

Additional key features and benefits of VxWorks 6.8 include:
* A standards-compliant solution and comprehensive mobile IP support to provide devices with next-generation networking capabilities for 4G and pre-4G including LTE and WiMAX technologies;
* Increased multicore processor support for Intel® Core™ i7 processor, ARM MPCore and Cortex A9; Freescale QorIQ P2020; Cavium 54xx, 55xx, 56xx, 57xx, 58xx; and RMI XLR, XLS allowing customers to choose the processor that best fits their needs;


* Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) performance improvements and SMP core reservation;
* Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) enhancements such as AMP spin locks, and a major upgrade to Wind River’s multi-OS inter-process communication with MIPC version 2.0, raising the bar for multicore capabilities with even higher performance thresholds;
* New small ARM footprint profile for creating embedded applications with very small memory requirements; and
* Significant developer tool productivity improvements, including VxWorks core dump file and analysis, and improvements to multicore and multi-OS debugging and user workflows.

Availability
VxWorks 6.8, available as part of VxWorks Edition 3.8, is immediately available to customers worldwide. Additional details about VxWorks 6.8 can be found at http://www.windriver.com/announces/vxworks6.8/.

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Company information / Profile:

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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http://windriver.talkabout.de

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Evelyn Hochholzer
D-85737 Ismaning
Phone: +49 89 962445-120
E-Mail: evi.hochholzer(at)windriver.com
Internet: http://www.windriver.com

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Kontakt-Informationen:
Firma: Wind River GmbH
Ansprechpartner: Evelyn Hochholzer
Stadt: 85737 Ismaning
Telefon: +49 89 962445-120

Meldungsart: Produktinformation
Versandart: Veröffentlichung
Freigabedatum: 13.01.2010

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