Multicore software solution from Dedicated Systems Australia
Wind River Systems, represented by Dedicated Systems Australia , has introduced a comprehensive multicore software solution for device development.
Wind River's multicore software solution will help companies solve complex business challenges by taking advantage of multicore processing and virtualisation.
Wind River will also introduce a scalable hypervisor that will enable virtualisation for devices across a broad range of vertical markets, including networking, industrial and consumer devices.
The ability to virtualise hardware allows multiple operating environments to share underlying processing cores, memory and other hardware resources. Virtualisation presents the opportunity for device manufacturers to reduce hardware costs and power consumption, leverage existing intellectual property (IP) and innovate by adding new capabilities to existing devices.
Wind River's hypervisor will incorporate the same rigorous design practices and technology that Wind River uses for its safety critical and security sensitive products, such as Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS).
This heritage in developing safe, secure and reliable products for mission-critical aerospace and defense applications ensures a highly robust and high-performance hypervisor. Wind River's hypervisor will be tightly integrated with VxWorks and Wind River Linux, and can support a variety of other operating systems. It will be available for early access in August 2008.
With the introduction of virtualisation, Wind River's comprehensive multicore software solution will consist of three pillars:
- Flexible multicore software configurations: Wind River's support for Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP), Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and virtualisation will provide a flexible set of operating system configuration for multicore
- Comprehensive multicore development tools: Based on the Eclipse platform, Wind River Workbench offers an end-to-end, open standards-based collection of tools for optimising multicore software design, development, debugging, test and management
- Advanced operating systems: VxWorks and Wind River Linux are advanced real-time operating system (RTOS) and commercial-grad Linux platform
"This level of flexibility will help 'future proof' customers' investments as new, more advanced hardware comes to market and ensure the flexibility to create differentiating devices both in the short and long term." ," said Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer at Wind River.
7-Jul-2008