Features

Key features and functionality include the following:

• VxWorks RTOS: Platform for Consumer Devices is based on the industry-leading VxWorks operating system. VxWorks offers process and standards support, advanced memory protection, configurable error management, local GUI implementation through Wind River Media Library, increased POSIX compliance, TIPC, and multi-core support with both asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support.
• Device connectivity: The platform provides drivers and protocols for consumer electronics devices. Support includes USB, Wi-Fi, and IPv4/IPv6. Partner integrations are available for other connectivity protocols.
• Networking, wireless, and security support: The platform integrates Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies, an extensive portfolio of networking and security protocols to protect network data. This portfolio provides implementations of IPsec and IKE, firewall and NAT, RADIUS client, 802.11i wireless security, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and digital certificates. It also provides support for wireless and mobility applications. These protocols can be used in any combination to provide secure applications that require access control, authentication, or privacy.
• Wind River Workbench: An integrated development suite based on an Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development life cycle, from hardware bring-up to product test and manufacture, and enables standardization on one common development suite across the enterprise. Workbench is extensible and scalable, allowing suppliers to meet specific project needs, and it can seamlessly integrate hundreds of third-party plug-ins.
• Extensive partner technologies: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the embedded software industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as speech recognition and text-to-speech, Java, advanced graphics capabilities, Bluetooth, and IEEE 1394.
  
  
  

Customer Success

Motorola chose Wind River products for an enhanced, interactive set-top box design.

Wind River products enabled Humax to develop an entire line of OpenCable products on schedule.

Wind River Professional Services

Wind River Consumer Services Practice

As part of its complete consumer industry solution, Wind River offers a Consumer Services Practice, with outsourced engineering services specifically designed to help consumer electronics customers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down. Services include device design, BSP and driver optimization, software system and middleware integration, legacy application and infrastructure migration, and real-time best practices.

Architecture and Host Support

• Target processor architectures
  • ARM
  • IA
  • MIPS
  • PowerPC
• Processor vendors
  • Arm Limited (ARM)
  • Broadcom (MIPS)
  • Freescale Semiconductor (PowerPC, ARM)
  • Intel (IA, XScale)
  • NEC Electronics (ARM, MIPS)
  • Marvell (XScale)
  • Mips Technologies (MIPS)
  • Texas Instruments (ARM)
• Host operating systems
  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • Windows

Consumer Partners

Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem assures tight integration between our core technologies and those of the premier hardware and software companies we've chosen to build out our solutions. Our partners help to extend the capabilities of Wind River's development and run-time platforms by offering out-of-the-box integration and support for key technologies in the fast-moving consumer market. Our customer support team is trained to troubleshoot partner technologies in use with Wind River products, making ours the most comprehensive and best supported partner ecosystem in the DSO industry.

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Consumer Platform Partners:

Affiliations

At Wind River, we applaud the move toward open industry standards. Because we believe the world is changing too fast to lock our customers into proprietary technologies, we've built our DSO solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied.

Wind River does not just embrace open standards, we're taking the lead in establishing them. Driving the Device Software Development Platform project at the Eclipse Foundation; providing TIPC support for messaging on the backplane between different operating systems and leading the way on Carrier Grade Linux with OSDL; participating in AUTOSAR—these are just a few examples of our commitment to evolving standards.

Consumer Electronics Linux Forum
Founded in July 2003, CE Linux Forum (CELF) focuses on the establishment and promotion of Linux-based digital consumer electronic products. CELF's main activities will include defining requirements for a variety of extensions in Linux-based CE products, as well as collaborating and reaching consensus with open-source projects and the Linux community, thereby promoting the proliferation of CE Linux-based digital electronics.

Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open-source paradigm with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform enables tool developers to have ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.

Open Source Developers Lab
Open Source Developers Lab (OSDL) – home to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux – is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of the-art computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan for developers around the world. OSDL's founding members include IBM, HP, CA, Intel, and NEC.