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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: visionWARE
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 November 2001
Firmware development kit gets boots up
and running
Wind River has announced the availability of visionWARE for the PowerPC, ARM and MIPS architectures.
Wind River has announced the availability of visionWARE for the PowerPC, ARM and MIPS architectures, a firmware development kit that addresses one of the greatest challenges facing any software design team, namely booting code on custom hardware and peripherals VisionWARE enables an incremental approach to building and debugging the initialisation software in a project
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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It uses a graphical user interface to select and pick relevant software elements to be configured (peripheral initialisations, diagnostics, basic system functions), generates the related code automatically and builds a "ready-to-boot" binary image for the target.
Wind River believes that the visionWARE approach enables design teams to speed up the process of bringing up custom hardware, enabling them to cut up to 40% off the time required of the hardware bring-up process.
The visionWARE development kit provides a framework for developing drivers and boot code as well as a catalogue of off-the-shelf components that developers select, configure and build into a visionBOOT image.
The visionBOOT image is then burned into flash to boot the board under development.
"Getting a board stable and working is no longer enough.
Modern embedded CPUs have dozens of peripherals that must be configured and exercised before the board can be said to be fully tested.
Modern processors are getting more powerful and flexible and have many modes with scores of registers that can require pages of code just to wake them up", said Tim Loveless, European development manager, Wind River.
"visionWARE provides a structured framework of boot code, drivers and services that facilitate an incremental approach to bringing up a board and all its peripherals using a standard debugger.
It is delivered in source code so that the development team is able to fully debug and modify the code segments that are added with each step", said Loveless.
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