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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Hypervisor for virtualisation
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 June 2008
Multicore software to enable
virtualisation
Wind River Systems has created what it reckons is the industry's most comprehensive multicore software solution for device development.
Wind River's multicore software solution will help companies solve complex business challenges by taking advantage of multicore processing and virtualisation In connection with the latest announcement, Wind River has revealed it will introduce a scalable hypervisor that will enable virtualisation for devices across a broad range of vertical markets, including networking, industrial and consumer devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Wind River's hypervisor will incorporate the same rigorous design practices and technology that Wind River uses for its safety critical and security sensitive products, such as Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS).
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Wind River's hypervisor will be tightly integrated with VxWorks and Wind River Linux, and can support a variety of other operating systems.
It will be available for early access in August 2008.
With the introduction of virtualisation, Wind River's comprehensive multicore software solution will consist of three pillars.
The company's support for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) and virtualisation will provide the most flexible set of operating system configurations for multicore.
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"Wind River is the only company that can provide such a comprehensive multicore approach and level of flexibility to take advantage of multicore and virtualisation", said Tomas Evensen, Chief Technology Officer at Wind River.
"This level of flexibility will help 'future proof' customers' investments as new, more advanced hardware comes to market and ensure the flexibility to create differentiating devices both in the short and long term".
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