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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: VxWorks 6.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 February 2004
RTOS gains flexibility and performance
features
Wind River Systems has released the next generation of its market-leading real-time operating system, VxWorks 6.0.
Wind River Systems has released the next generation of its market-leading real-time operating system, VxWorks 6.0 Product enhancements include a suite of memory protection features and a scalable message passing architecture
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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VxWorks 6.0 will be the foundation for Wind River's next-generation, VxWorks-based platforms.
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In addition to VxWorks 6.0, Wind River will be delivering the new Eclipse-based Wind Power IDE 2, which supports VxWorks 6.0 and Linux.
"Through Wind River Platforms, the company has focused aggressively on adding greater value to its customers as a means of differentiating their products from competitive offerings", said Jerry Krasner PhD, Chief Analyst at Embedded Market Forecasters.
"With VxWorks 6.0, Wind River has significantly improved its core real-time operating system and addressed the emerging needs of the marketplace".
With VxWorks 6.0 companies can: optimise developer productivity through open standards; increase reliability through MMU-based memory protection; accelerate time-to-market through enhanced error detection; seamlessly migrate existing VxWorks-based IP; and continue to deliver products that rely on the core attributes of VxWorks including high performance, reliability, determinism, low latency and scalability.
New technology features include: state-of-the-art memory protection; standard process-based programming model; customisable application program interface (API); non-VxWorks application support; error detection and reporting mechanisms; scalable message passing architecture; dual mode IPv6/IPv4 network stack; and integration with the Wind Power IDE 2.
"We are thrilled to see that with VxWorks 6.0, Wind River has created a product that so accurately reflects the evolving needs of our developers and the evolving requirements of our products", said Jin-Pyo Hong, Project Leader, LG Electronics.
"We look forward to participating in the Wind River VxWorks 6.0 Release Programme and using VxWorks 6.0 on our next projects".
"Now is the time for companies to optimise their device software development process, and with the latest technology upgrades announced today, Wind River Platforms will provide the foundation that enables our customers to build device software faster, better, less expensively and more reliably", said Michel Genard, Senior Director Platform Marketing for Wind River.
Developers can use VxWorks 6.0 before it is available to the general market.
The early release programme includes VxWorks 6.0 and a preview of Wind Power IDE 2 for VxWorks, which is based on the open Eclipse framework, as well as technical documentation, API reference documentation, demonstration source code and hands-on tutorials.
With early access to Wind River technology, customers can drive early project design and alignment with their release schedule.
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