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Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 May 2005

MIPS signs for device software
optimisation

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MIPS Technologies has named Wind River as its premier device software optimisation (DSO) solution provider.

MIPS Technologies has named Wind River as its premier device software optimisation (DSO) solution provider As part of this strategic alliance, joint customers will have access to best-in-class MIPS Technologies' processor cores and Wind River's comprehensive range of DSO products

The companies will align and optimise the integration of these technologies and products for the consumer entertainment, imaging, network equipment, and automotive telematics markets.

Wind River offers comprehensive development tools that support the MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures and cores through Wind River Workbench, Wind River's Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE).

Through this alliance, joint customers can benefit from optimised and tightly integrated, end-to-end solutions on VxWorks- and Linux-based runtime platforms.

In addition to supporting existing MIPS cores and including the recently announced 24KT family of cores, Wind River will collaborate with MIPS Technologies on supporting new technologies such as multithreading and DSP architectures.

"Wind River's full-featured DSO solutions accelerate time to market for our joint customers while leveraging MIPS Technologies' competitive advantage in performance, power, and cost", said John Bourgoin, President and Chief Executive Officer, MIPS Technologies.

"This strategic commitment will bring key product enhancements to our customers".

"Wind River and MIPS Technologies have worked together for many years, and today's announcement signals a new era of collaboration", said Ken Klein, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wind River.

"Wind River is committed to working with MIPS Technologies to ensure that our joint customers have more timely access to the technologies and solutions they need to create smarter devices faster, better and at lower cost".

Wind River and MIPS Technologies have been working together for more than six years.

The companies have collaborated to create end-to-end development support and superior architectures for devices including cable and DSL modems, digital set-top boxes, consumer devices and residential gateways.

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