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Best Practices: Adoption of Symmetric Multiprocessing Using VxWorks and Intel Multi-Core Processors

Three main trends that are shaping the embedded device market today are smaller form factors, standardization, and improved performance per watt. In addition, applications across all device categories, from signal processing in aerospace devices to multimedia processing in consumer devices, continue to require higher performance. However, the traditional method of...

Tags: Multi-core Processor, Performance, Wind River VxWorks, Dissipation, Aerospace, Best Practice, Intel Corp., Performance Management, Aerospace & Defense, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2009-01-01

Stallman's dream and GPLv3

Stallman's dream and GPLv3You begin with a false premis"If you don't share his views, and work in the propriety software industry, then this might be a very scary thing."I don't believe anyone is "scared" by Stallman, his views, or open source. No more than they scared by the whacko...

Tags: Linux, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Wind River VxWorks, GPLv3, Free Software Foundation, Stallman, software

Discussion threads 2007-08-09

Additional Resources

Wind River: Tasty Embedded Linux Treat

Intel just purchased embedded systems vendor Wind River for a cool $884M. But why? The answer may lie in Linux and device virtualization. For many, Intel's acquisition of Wind River may have gone over this week as just another asset grab by the...

Tags: Wind River Systems Inc., Embedded Linux, Operating System, Intel Corp., Smart Phones, Linux, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-06-05

Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devices

Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devicesGreat move!What a great move by Intel! Wind River is one of the premier names, in the embedded device space.The transformation going on in the tech industry these days is VERY exciting!RE: Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devicesIt could...

Tags: Linux, Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, Wind River Systems Inc., Intel Corp., embedded device, software

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devices

Intel said Thursday that it would acquire Wind River, which makes software for embedded devices, in a deal valued at $884 million. With the move Intel is making a move to diversify into software and away from its dependence on the PC and server markets.  The chip...

Tags: Software, Wind River Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Tools & Techniques, Research & Development, Semiconductors, Management, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-04

I want an iPhoneStormDroid

Wind River's Multicore Software Hypervisor solution permits multiple embedded OSes to run on a single device. Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to actually choose between an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a Google Android? What if all those device operating...

Tags: Device, Operating System, RIM BlackBerry, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-25

Look for more Linux-based mobile devices in a Palm near you

Linux on mobile devices got a boost this week with a slew of announcements out of LinuxWorld in San Francisco. One telling announcement came with Palm's decision to go with Wind River Systems' Linux as the platform for the upcoming Palm Foleo, the sub-compact companion for smartphones. While...

Tags: Linux, Wind River Systems Inc., Mobile, Palm Inc., Mobile Device, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Wind River further embraces Eclipse with developer tools code donation

Deepening its support of Eclipse, and an open-source tools strategy in general, Wind River Systems this week donated some 300,000 lines of embedded development tools code to the Eclipse Foundation. The move simultaneously opens frameworks options for more C/C++ developers and further broadens the Eclipse model's reach into the development...

Tags: Wind River Systems, Eclipse

Blog posts 2006-07-31

Intel shows Origami-like device

Intel shows Origami-like deviceYou Euros......just can't get away from the whole "totalitarian uber-government" thing, can you?Only the hardware...that may be proprietarily tied to MS Windows would need to be documented, I think. The rest should be easy pickings ;)But I doubt it will be too difficult to make an Origami...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, INTERNET, Operating systems, UNIX, Origami, Intel Corp., Linux, OQO

Discussion threads 2006-03-07

Embedded development testing benefit moves to Linux

I recently took an extended briefing in the form of attending a regional developers' conference in I-495 tech corridor Massachusetts on embedded development and deployment strategies. The host, Wind River, did a good job of balancing their desire to promote their COTS wares with highlighting the building wave Multi-core devices...

Tags: parallelism, Wind River Systems

Blog posts 2005-12-20

Rampant WiFi VoIP handset security problems reported: is your device vulnerable?

When it comes to device security analysis, Austin-Tex.-base security researcher Shawn Merdinger is not a minor voice. Today at the Computer Security Institute's 32nd Annual Conference, this former Research Engineer with Cisco Systems' Security Technologies Assessment Team STAT and Security Evaluation Office made a presentation in which he ran down...

Tags: vulnerability, telephone

Blog posts 2005-11-16

Beat off-shore embedded developers by assuming the high-end, says Green Hills CEO

Dan O'Dowd, founder and CEO of Green Hills Software, rarely shies away from controversial positions and straight talk about them. He's now focused his attention on the trend toward increased off-shoring of software developers' jobs, especially embedded software development. What's needed, he told a gathering of...

Tags: Green Hills, U.S. says O'Dowd

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Beat off-shore embedded developers by assuming the high-end, says Green Hills CEO

Dan O'Dowd, founder and CEO of Green Hills Software, rarely shies away from controversial positions and straight talk about them. He's now focused his attention on the trend toward increased off-shoring of software developers' jobs, especially embedded software development. What's needed, he told a gathering of analysts today...

Tags: Linux, Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Development tools, UNIX, Dan O'Dowd, Green Hills, Eclipse

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Full development platform emerges for embedded software lifecycle

At a developer conference today in Santa Clara, CA, architects and specifiers of embedded development infrastructure are getting the first glimpses of a milestone in real-time operating systems RTOS and associated development suites. Wind River is unveiling an integrated test and diagnostics capability that ships with the Nov. 7 release...

Tags: Wind River Systems

Blog posts 2005-11-03

Full development platform emerges for embedded software lifecycle

At a developer conference today in Santa Clara, CA, architects and specifiers of embedded development infrastructure are getting the first glimpses of a milestone in real-time operating systems RTOS and associated development suites. Wind River is unveiling an integrated test and diagnostics capability that ships with the Nov. 7 release...

Tags: Wind River Systems

Blog posts 2005-11-03

Lost in the Ethernet

Dear Bloggie, I have both Windows XP Pro and Redhat Linux on my notebook computer. I love using the Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card with WiFi communications. Unfortunately, this only works out of the box with the Windows operating system. A Google search showed multiple very technical solutions that...

Tags: Linksys, Linux

Blog posts 2005-11-01

Look for a Linux distro face-off in the embedded space

Embedded software developers put Baskin-Robbins to shame when it comes to dishing up a large variety of operating systems flavors. The swirl of Linux permutations alone puts a rocky road in front of those seeking a smooth ride for reuse and modularity of device code.Yet the use of and preference...

Tags: Wind River Systems, embedded Linux, Linux

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Look for a Linux distro face-off in the embedded space

Embedded software developers put Baskin-Robbins to shame when it comes to dishing up a large variety of operating systems flavors. The swirl of Linux permutations alone puts a rocky road in front of those seeking a smooth ride for reuse and modularity of device code. ...

Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, Wind River Systems Inc., embedded Linux

Blog posts 2005-09-26

Wind River's open source moves

Wind River's open source movesYour three pointless points.Ummm, we have had this forever, it has nothing to do with it being open source.I was WONDERINGwho would step up to the task of writing the WiMAX steamroller meshing software! Maybe Wind River turns the steamroller into a tugboat . . .SlackwareI...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Wind River Systems Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

Wind River's open source moves

Wind River has continued its move toward open source, joining Eclipse and even contributing to SourceForge. I think this is big news, and not just because yet-another proprietary software outfit is dipping its toe in the open source water.Real Time Operating Systems like Wind River's VxWorks go into discrete devices...

Tags: Wind River Systems

Blog posts 2005-03-10