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Where Embedded Open Source Goes Business-Critical

Wind River Linux is the leading commercial embedded Linux platform and the first to bring companies in all industries the advantages of open source without the risks.

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Overview

Wind River is the premier commercial-grade embedded Linux solution because it is

  • Complete: Wind River Linux brings together all the components companies need to develop, test, and support world-class products quickly and cost-effectively. From pristine source code to preconfigured industry-specific profiles, an Eclipse-based development suite to more than 500 tested and validated software packages, Wind River Linux takes the guesswork and the legwork out of embedded Linux development.
  • Safe: Wind River Linux mitigates the risks commonly involved in using open source technology to create enterprise-class products. Each major release receives extensive test and quality assurance (QA). Dedicated engineering teams constantly monitor alerts, eliminate security flaws, and provide best-in-class software maintenance. Our legal team devotes thousands of hours to license documentation to keep your products compliant with open source and your intellectual property safe. And your engineering team enjoys 24/7 technical support from our global support professionals.
  • Constantly evolving: Wind River Linux has achieved the No. 1 market position by evolving in step with the technology market itself. It enables companies to take advantage of innovations such as multi-core processing and multiple OS support, MILS (multiple independent levels of security) deployments, carrier grade certification for advanced networking applications, secure connectivity, and advanced graphics and graphical user interface (GUI) applications. Our customers know the next big thing is already on the roadmap.

“Wind River ... gives a ‘best of both worlds’ effect
that lets you have the confidence of a supported OS
with the control and broad-based, open development
of an open-source system.”

—Kevin Morris in Embedded Technology Journal


Benefits

Build Your Business on Wind River Linux

   Benefits    Features

Built for Speed
Spend your resources on differentiation, not drudgery.

  • Out-of-the-box ready for embedded development
  • Hardware support for five processor architectures and over 100 processors
  • Preconfigured system profiles, by industry and device type
  • More than 500 tested, validated, and pre-integrated packages for system software, middleware, and applications

Built to Work
Sleep at night knowing your software is the best it can be.

  • 100,000 man-hours of QA and test per release
    • 26M lines of code
    • 60 BSPs, 48K tests per BSP

Built to Embed
Don't waste time trying to make big things work in small places.

  • Complete development environment for highly customized embedded Linux
  • Sophisticated embedded-centric debugging and analysis tools
  • Multi-architecture support for cross-compiling
  • Advanced power management
  • Reduced root file system footprint for flash memory constrained devices
  • Accelerated kernel boot time

Built to Comply
Because standards matter.

  • Carrier Grade Linux certified for advanced networking deployments
  • Open source and open standards compliant
  • Extensive and easy-to-use documentation of license compliance
  • Compliance with U.S. government export regulations

Built Safe and Secure
In a connected world, security is king.

  • Security-Enhanced Linux packages for access control, process separation, protection of information, and malicious attack prevention
  • Dedicated team of engineers to monitor security alerts and address issues quickly
  • Skilled legal team to help protect your intellectual property against license incompatibility and copyright infringement—16 lawyer-months per major release
  • MILS ready
  • EAL 4+ certification ready

Built to Win
Just because technology moves fast is no reason to get left behind.

  • Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) for virtualization
  • Multi-core hardware offload and multi-core-aware debugging and analysis tools
  • Qt and advanced graphics support
  • Advanced networking stack integration


Markets

Where Embedded Open Source Meets
Business-Critical Solutions

Networking (high-end data networking; telecommunications; network infrastructure)

   Why Wind River Linux    Customer Success
  • Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 registered
  • Carrier grade 99.999% high availability
  • Integration with industry's most popular telecom boards, ATCA, and COTS-based hardware systems
  • Minimized footprint, optimized boot sequences, advanced power management
  • Multi-core and multi-core offload capabilities
  • Virtualization with Wind River Hypervisor or Linux KVM
  • IPC connection to VxWorks RTOS

"Wind River offers solid technology, a wide range of industry partners, professional development services, and competitive cost. If you have expectations of quality, reliability, on-time delivery, and cost, I highly recommend Wind River."

—Paul D'Arcy, Director of Engineering, Airvana

Aerospace and Defense

   Why Wind River Linux    Customer Success
  • Commercial-grade development and run-time platform for embedded devices
  • Common development environment shared with VxWorks to speed development and maximize cross-platform communication
  • Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 registered
  • Already in use in successful MILS deployment
  • Choice of best OS for the application
  • Deployed in space, November 2009
  • Virtualization with Wind River Hypervisor or Linux KVM

"Honeywell is pleased to work with Wind River in the development of our Dependable Multiprocessor ... the application of Dependable Multiprocessor technology is expected to yield benefits for years to come, particularly in the reduction of development time, cost, and risk of future space systems."

—Dr. John R. Samson Jr., Principal Engineering Fellow, Honeywell Defense and Space

Industrial (medical; transportation; power and energy; control and process automation)

   Why Wind River Linux    Customer Success
  • Commercial-grade development and run-time platform for applications not requiring hard real-time
  • Sophisticated graphics and GUI packages and support enabling industry-standard user interaction with deployed devices
  • Minimized footprint, optimized boot sequences, advanced power management to utilize full hardware potential
  • Superior networking capability enabling secure high-speed data transmission
  • Virtualization with Wind River Hypervisor or Linux KVM
  • Common development environment shared with VxWorks to streamline development and cross-OS communication

"We performed an ROI analysis and believe we can conservatively save $1 million to $2 million over the next two years with Wind River Linux. Standardizing on one toolset across the company is very powerful from a cost-saving and productivity standpoint."

—Rick Gelling, Director of Firmware Engineering, AMX

Consumer and Digital Home

   Why Wind River Linux    Customer Success
  • Market-leading commercial Linux development and run-time platform bringing the advantages of open source to the highly competitive consumer electronics space
  • Robust networking capabilities that effectively connect digital appliances and applications
  • High-speed data transmission for in-home entertainment applications
  • Minimized footprint, optimized boot time, and advanced power management for instant power-on devices with extended battery life
  • Preconfigured device-specific profiles that jump-start software development

"We're strengthening our relationship with Wind River to provide customers of portable A/V devices with a comprehensive development suite to address customer requirements for expanded Linux OS support. The jointly developed enablement platform provides the tools that customers need to design high-performance, competitive products with incredibly short time-to-market."

—Masao Hirasawa, General Manager, SoC Development Division, NEC Electronics



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