Wind River Support Freescale Multi-core Solutions

At the Freescale Technology Forum, Wind River announced its support for Freescale's new Multi-core Communications Platform. The innovative multi-core architecture designed to deliver efficiencies, scale and performance of multi-core software development. Wind River was an early supporter of Freescale's MPC8641D multi-core processor, and intends to support the MPC8572D multi-core processor, which is sampling now. Wind River is committed to delivering platform solutions for the next generation of processor innovation, uniquely offering designers access to integrated platform solutions based on either VxWorks or Wind River Linux operating systems.

Tomas Evensen, Wind River, said:

Wind River is the leading DSO vendor for multi-core development because we offer customers the flexibility to optimize to their specific requirements for each device…

Applications today require more and more processing power within existing system power budgets - the combination of Freescale's Multi-core Communications Platform with Wind River's complete end-to-end multi-core solution puts the power back in the hands of developers…

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.

The Multi-core solutions help remove the complexity associated with multi-core software development for silicon system, while taking full advantage of the performance benefits of is multi-core hardware components. By working closely with Freescale as it rolls out its Multi-core Communications Platform to the industry, Wind River ensures that its shared customers benefit from the most optimal software and hardware environment, and reduces the risk to developers of including this platform in their future development plans.

The complexity of multi-core processors programming, encompasses system design and development. By providing a stable runtime software foundation for communications applications and a complete set of development tool capabilities - both extended to address the specific challenges of multi-core device software development - Wind River platforms significantly reduce the scope and complexity of the development process.

Wind River offers a flexible choice of tools, run-time environments and interprocessor communication protocols and technologies for the development and optimization of multi-core and multiprocessing solutions. Successful adoption of new silicon is often gated by the availability of required ecosystem components. Wind River VxWorks and Linux operating systems are both already widely used today with Freescale silicon in communication applications. By supporting Freescale's Multi-core Communications Platform, Wind River will enable easy migration of software from today's leading communications products to future versions based on this innovative new hardware platform. Similarly, by providing both an RTOS-based platform and a Linux-based platform, Wind River gives customers confidence and mitigates risk for their design as their multiprocessing requirements change over time.

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