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News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 April 2003
Spectrum Signal Processing becomes
reseller
Spectrum Signal Processing has become a value added reseller of Wind River products in the Americas, Europe, and Japan.
Spectrum Signal Processing has become a value added reseller of Wind River products in the Americas, Europe, and Japan The agreement allows Spectrum to resell Tornado development seats, VxWorks OEM licences, and VxWorks run time licences when bundled with Spectrum's flexComm signal processing subsystems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The combination of Spectrum's subsystems with Wind River's industry-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) results in a joint solution that is ideal for real-time applications such as software defined radio (SDR) and communications gateways.
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"Wind River's depth of embedded software and services, when combined with Spectrum's focus on software-defined radios and wireless infrastructure, provides the first commercial off the shelf solution ideally suited for the SDR market.
Spectrum provides significant value as a channel to reach and support our customers.
It is our expectation that together, Spectrum and Wind River will further penetrate the SDR and signal processing markets" Wind River's VxWorks is the most widely adopted RTOS in the embedded industry.
With a reputation for reliability, performance, flexibility, compatibility and scalability, VxWorks provides an extremely reliable runtime platform for embedded application development.
In addition, VxWorks supports the Posix-profile required for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) and other military communications programs.
Wind River's Tornado is the Integrated Development Environment for VxWorks.
It provides a visual, automated environment that enables developers of all experience levels to quickly and easily create applications.
"Becoming a Wind River VAR allows us to provide a more complete solution, which is consistent with our strategy of being a signal processing subsystems provider", stated Sean Howe, Vice President and General Manager of Spectrum's wireless systems group.
"Our software architecture is a key enabler of our subsystems, and VxWorks is a critical component as the RTOS.
Having the industry leading RTOS as part of our subsystem offering provides us and our customers with a competitive advantage".
Spectrum's flexComm signal processing subsystems are targeted at wireless infrastructure applications such as military communications gateways, signals intelligence receivers, smart antenna, and commercial wireless prototyping.
These subsystems offer unparalleled choice in combinations of signal processing devices, communications paths, and layers of software development.
Spectrum's quicComm API is a key element of the software stack as it enables code portability across Spectrum subsystems while providing interprocessor communications at near hardware performance.
The combination of quicComm and VxWorks enable a powerful multiprocessor subsystem that is optimised for real-time applications.
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