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Wind River and Its Partners Bring Out-of-the-Box PC Experience to Embedded Market
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, development tools, and embedded hypervisor and graphics software. Embedded Development Kits from Emerson Network Power, Eurotech and Kontron are available today, and additional Embedded Development Kits from Advantech, ADLINK, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, GE Intelligent Platforms and RadiSys will be available in Q4 of 2010.
EachWind River and its board vendor partners have worked diligently for the past year to formalize an out-of-the-box hardware and software solution that provides our joint customers with a foundation to begin innovating in minutes rather than weeks, said Barry Mainz, chief operating officer at Wind River. To achieve the desired results required new thinking and some innovative technology. We are extremely pleased with the outcome, and the reaction from initial partners and customers has been overwhelmingly positive. We are confident our joint customers will greatly benefit by not only mitigating risks associated with software integration but by accelerating time to productivity.
Each Embedded Development Kit is customized with a startup guide and a set of comprehensive, step-by-step tutorials that walk the developer through applicable use cases and workflows intended to make the developer productive in a matter of hours, using the included self-directed documentation, play-by-play videos or both. Since each Embedded Development Kit processor board is optimized for Wind River’s embedded software and development tools, customers obtain a more tightly integrated hardware and software solution with easier access to board-specific components.
According to Chris Rommel, senior analyst at VDC Research Group, We are beginning to see a shift in the embedded market where engineering organizations are considering a more integrated hardware and software approach in an effort to extract efficiencies and improve time to market. What Wind River and its board partners have delivered caters to this demand and can help companies consolidate their ecosystems and provide the embedded market with something closer to the out-of-the-box PC development experience.