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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Platform for Consumer Devices
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 May 2005
Platform promises to transform consumer
devices
Wind River Systems reckons it is transforming the consumer device industry with the Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, based on VxWorks, Wind River's industry-leading RTOS.
Wind River Systems reckons it is transforming the consumer device industry with the Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, based on VxWorks, Wind River's industry-leading real-time operating system (RTOS) This latest platform is a fully integrated DSO solution that enables consumer device manufacturers to create innovative and reliable device software better, faster and at a lower cost
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Wind River is currently demonstrating Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition on Texas Instruments' leading voice over IP (VoIP) gateway platforms at its Worldwide User Conference this week in Orlando, Florida.
Additionally, Wind River has launched its Consumer Device Services Practice, bringing to the industry the only comprehensive, worldwide service entity that offers a full range of device design and development consulting services.
The company also announced plans to expand its partnerships with leading hardware and software providers in the space in order to make it even easier for customers to get all the device development solutions they need faster and at a lower cost so they can speed time to market.
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"The consumer device space is one of Wind River's largest markets, as device software in this space has some of the most complex technical challenges and equally some of the shortest production windows of any vertical market space", said Chris Lanfear, Director, VDC Software Practice.
"Market demand for smarter, more connected devices is almost insatiable, and consumer device manufacturers can no longer ignore the need for device software optimisation solutions such as Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices".
There is increased pressure to get new products to market fast.
New complexity in the products themselves, though, can slow development, especially when engineers have to spend time integrating incompatible software, tools and processes before they can add differentiated value to their brand.
Developers are increasingly turning to comprehensive DSO products and solutions, such as Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition, to help them address these major market challenges.
Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices relies on the proven VxWorks operating system that provides process support and advanced memory protection, as well as configurable error management.
Customers can also easily achieve fast boot up time and scalable memory footprint with their applications.
More and more consumer devices need to be connected securely and managed remotely.
Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices provides the leading technologies for the connectivity, security, graphic displays, and managements.
Support such as IPv4/v6, IPSec, firewall, WindML, web services and SNMP is included.
Based on the Eclipse framework, Wind River Workbench provides the deep capabilities that support the entire development lifecycle from hardware bring-up to product test and manufacture.
Wind River Workbench provides standardisation on one common development suite across an entire organisation, and is extensible and scalable so that it allows customers to meet unique project needs, and seamlessly integrates hundreds of third party plug-ins.
The Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition is based on kernel.org and delivers an integrated platform designed for both "hard-core" Linux kernel developers as well as Linux-based application developers "Innovation is the hallmark for our products, and leveraging the strengths of a company like Wind River has allowed us to focus on rapidly bringing high quality multimedia VoIP phone solutions to our customers", said Jose Melendez, President, Commoca.
"As such, we continue to turn to Wind River as a trusted provider of reliable systems solutions, based on a secure operating system, with consistent support for our development team on all phases of product development".
The Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition and the Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition products are further complimented by the Wind River Consumer Devices Services Practice, which provides consumer device customers expert outsourcing and consulting services, specifically designed to speed new product introduction while minimising development cost.
To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has partnered with leading hardware and software providers to address technology areas such as ARM, MIPS Technologies, Texas Instruments (TI) and Tilcon.
As part of the Wind River Worldwide User Conference in Orlando this week, Wind River and TI will demonstrate Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition on TI's leading VoIP gateway software and silicon solutions.
Both consumer and enterprise adoptions of VoIP are expected to grow exponentially in the next five years.
The combination of Wind River's DSO solutions and TI's market-leading VoIP chipsets allows customers to achieve higher quality, shorter time-to-market and lower total cost ownership of their devices.
TI has been a Wind River partner for 12 years and has used Wind River's DSO products and solutions in a variety of TI technology platforms for IP phones, residential and enterprise VoIP gateways, voice over DSL and voice over cable modems.
Also at the user conference, Wind River and Tilcon will showcase a powerful and flexible graphical VoIP phone user interface.
By leveraging Tilcon's unique architecture and Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, OEMs and ODMs can rapidly build, simulate, customise and re-brand the phone's entire user interface.
This translates into faster time to market, lower cost of ownership and a rapid increase in market share.
Tilcon has been a Wind River partner for 4 years and has integrated with Wind River's DSO products in a variety of applications such as enterprise VoIP phones and digital set-top boxes.
"The DSO ecosystem is fundamentally changing the way device software is being developed", said John Fanelli, Vice President, Product Planning and Management, Wind River.
"Manufacturers in the consumer market and beyond must take a completely different approach to developing intelligent, connected devices, and Wind River plays a crucial role in helping our customers succeed in this fast-paced market where differentiation is the key to survival".
The Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition, based on VxWorks 6.1, will be available in Early Access for select customers in late May 2005 and will be generally available in June 2005.
The Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition, is available today in Early Access for select customers will be generally available in June 2005.
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