Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that leading train manufacturer Bombardier Transportation has selected Wind River VxWorks 61508 Platform and Wind River Linux for its latest standards-based HMI410 Train Information System.

Gil Hellman demonstrates a Wind River embedded development kit (EDK) featuring Kontron's nanoETXexpress-SP board and running an Intel Atom processor. Wind River has partnered with leading embedded board vendors to provide EDKs that enable developers to begin their application development within minutes of opening the kit, and provide a technically comprehensive platform to address complex development requirements.

Wind River has partnered with an ecosystem of processor board vendors to provide Embedded Development Kits that enable embedded developers to begin application development in less than one hour versus what traditionally can take days or weeks. As part of the new program, called the Wind River On-Board Program, the Embedded Development Kits comprise processor boards with optimized trial versions of Wind River’s market-leading operating systems, ...

Eurotech and Wind River today announced a strategic collaboration to support joint sales, marketing and distribution of Embedded Development Kits, which enable embedded developers to begin application development in less than one hour versus what traditionally takes more than days or weeks. As part of the Wind River On-Board Program, Eurotech will offer Embedded Development Kits with validated board support packages of Wind River's embedded Linux...

Wind River announced Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform, a combination of Wind River's existing VxWorks DO-178B and IEC 61508 safety critical platforms in one product offering. The new software platform introduces support for C++ and real-time processes (RTP) providing more flexibility in programming and design and enabling improved compatibility with existing, imported or reused code.

Wind River announced an updated version of its VxWorks MILS Platform, featuring an optional high assurance network stack and support for Wind River Linux as a guest operating system (OS). VxWorks MILS Platform 2.1 is designed for high security ensuring customers have a protected platform for developing high assurance applications.

Wind River today announced it is building on its collaboration with Adobe by participating in the Open Screen Project and becoming a worldwide scaling partner to bring the Adobe® Flash® Platform to Internet-enabled devices for rich and engaging Web experiences. The Open Screen Project is an industry wide initiative of more than 70 industry partners led by Adobe to provide consumers consistent Internet and rich media experiences across the broad...

A brief video demonstrating version 1.2 of Framework for Automated Software Testing for Android, including test run setup, execution, results collection, and reporting.

This video illustrates the rendering of OpenGL 3D graphics within a Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite application. Embedded developers can now integrate standards-based OpenGL 3D graphics with the codeless user interface development of Tilcon Graphics Suite running on Wind River VxWorks.

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the Wind River Simics virtual platforms for the Freescale Semiconductor QorIQ™ P5020, P5010, and P3041 multi-core processors. Simics provides Freescale customers and ecosystem partners access to a P5020, P5010, and P3041 development platforms before silicon is available, allowing them to begin evaluation and development now. Freescale introduced the advanced 64-bit dual...

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced the latest version of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, its solution for the development and deployment of rich graphical user interfaces for embedded devices. The updated graphics suite includes support for Open Graphics Library (OpenGL) 3D that enables highly customizable and rapid development of high-end GUIs to create improved end-user experiences across a variety of ...

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced support for Microsoft Windows XP as a guest operating system for Wind River Hypervisor on Intel®-based platforms. Device and systems manufacturers can now run Windows XP simultaneously with other operating systems such as VxWorks or Wind River Linux on a single piece of silicon, to reduce their bill of materials, energy consumption and maintenance costs.

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, today announced that VxWorks has been chosen to run Logica’s Integrity Processing Facility (IPF) check set for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). The IPF, developed and delivered by Logica, is the crucial element that validates the information broadcast by the satellites to safety critical users such as aircraft in flight or ships navigating through narrow c...

Wind River today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of Wind River Test Management, Wind River’s test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing. The system features dynamic analytics technology that enables run-time visibility into devices during testing to provide operational and actionable feedback that product teams can use to confidently deliver their products on time, o...

Wind River today announced Wind River Simics 4.4, a virtual systems development solution that allows engineers to define, develop, and deploy their product using a virtual representation of their target hardware.

Wind River has introduced the first in a series of multi-core acceleration solutions, an integrated Network Acceleration Platform designed to deliver ultra-fast IP packet forwarding performance for telecommunications network infrastructure equipment. Wind River Network Acceleration Platform helps equipment providers tackle the increasingly significant challenge of delivering high-performance network products that can efficiently and easily scale ...

Wind River announced that the France-based Group of Robotic Intervention on Accidents (INTRA) has selected VxWorks for its new family of radioactive cleanup robots, called the ERASE, ERELT and EBENNE trucks. INTRA Groupe is part of a consortium comprised of Electricité de France (EDF), Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) and AREVA.

Wind River a annoncé sur le salon Avionics Europe la disponibilité immédiate de sa dernière plate-forme VxWorks 653, le système d’exploitation temps réel de Wind River pour les systèmes IMA de sûreté de fonctionnement conformes à la norme ARINC 653.

Wind River today announced it has integrated support for HP BladeSystem carrier-grade and enterprise server blades into its industry-leading Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) operating system, tools and build system. Wind River Linux is the first registered CGL 4.0 solution supported on HP ProLiant server blades for HP BladeSystem, allowing customers to standardize on one common carrier-grade operating system platform to build highly reliable network ele...

Engineers looking to work with multicore devices or exploit symmetrical multi-processing for embedded systems will be pleased to hear that both of these topics are central to this year's agenda at The Embedded Masterclass 2010, 6th and 11th May. www.embedded-masterclass.com