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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 February 2008
Alliance creates accord in Linux handset
design
Combination of Wind River's Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition with the Access Linux Platform forms open and flexible Linux-based platform for mobile devices.
Wind River Systems and Access are extending their partnership into the Linux mobile handset market with a pre-integrated software development package for mobile handset OEMs and cellular carriers The package, expected to be available in Q2 2008, will combine Wind River's Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition with the Access Linux Platform, delivering a completely integrated, open and flexible Linux-based platform tailored specifically for mobile devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Handset OEMs and carriers will have the option of coupling a leading commercial-grade Linux distribution with a leading commercial handset software stack to more efficiently develop and differentiate devices, including LiMo-compliant handsets.
In today's demanding mobile marketplace, handset OEMs and carriers are under increased pressure to reduce time to market and overall costs while delivering highly differentiated handsets.
As a result, mobile developers must manage increasingly complex and often incompatible software environments across the development stack.
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To minimise these development challenges, handset manufacturers require proven and optimised solutions that pre-integrate the operating system and application framework.
The new Wind River/Access solution will come with the backing of two of the leading providers in the mobile handset market.
Wind River extends the platform with its professional services team with considerable mobile handset expertise while the extensive Access developer programme adds a broad array of applications with which to differentiate a handset.
Further, the Wind River Workbench development suite and Access Linux Platform Product Development Kit (PDK), both available with this solution, are based on the Eclipse framework, giving developers a familiar foundation for development tools.
This pre-integration speeds time to market for mobile handset manufacturers and provides world class support for the complete software stack.
Both companies are also Core members of the LiMo Foundation, where they are working together with other LiMo members to provide the market with a LiMo native Linux Software Development Kit (SDK), based on Wind River's contribution of its world-class build system for the LiMo Common Integration Environment (CIE) and Access' successful SDK for the Access Linux Platform.
Additionally, the two companies have announced that Wind River will join the Access Connect Ecosystem (ACE) partner programme.
The ACE partner programme is designed to create a network of world-class partners that will develop the potential of the digital life generation by driving development and adoption of new mobile converged technologies and solutions.
"By extending our partnership with Access into the mobile Linux market, we greatly help our joint customers by delivering baseline integration before the project starts so they can focus on the true innovation - creating and deploying mobile applications that will better add value to their handset product", says Jason Whitmire, general manager mobile solutions, Wind River.
"Access customers have come to value and rely on the company's flexible, open mobile platforms and its combination of best-in-class, open source applications and proven mobile technologies".
"The combination of Access' SDK and capabilities for application developers combined with Wind River build systems and tools for platform development is a significant step forward for the mobile Linux community".
"We welcome Wind River to the ACE partner programme and look forward to working with the company to help extend the growing market momentum of Linux", says Toru Arakawa, CEO, President and cofounder of ACCeSS.
"Today's announcement represents a natural extension of our existing relationship with the company".
"We share a similar commitment to speeding time to market for media-rich Linux phones, and delivering a joint commercial, OEM-grade platform".
Wind River and Access are long-standing partners and trusted advisors in the device software market.
The two companies previously announced that Access' Software Developers Kit (SDK) is available as a pre-integrated solution with Wind River's VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS).
The new Wind River/Access pre-integrated mobile Linux platform is expected to be available during the second quarter of 2008 and has been initially proven on the Texas Instruments' OMAP2430 high-performance application processor and Marvell's PXA30x and PXA31x application processor chipsets.
It will be able to be quickly ported to other leading mobile architectures.
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