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Contents. History Wind River Systems was formed by a partnership of Jerry Fiddler and Dave Wilner. In 1981, Fiddler had come out of to write software for, but wanted to pursue a career in, which he funded through a consultancy business focused on real-time. His early clients included the and film director — for whom he designed a unique film editing system.
Wilner, a former colleague at Berkeley, joined Fiddler and they formed a partnership called Wind River Systems (named after, where Fiddler had vacationed that year). Some of the key milestones are:. 1983: Wind River is incorporated in 1983 with each partner contributing $3,000 and a desk to the business. 1987: Wind River introduces VxWorks, a leading real-time operating system for embedded devices.
1995: VxWorks launches into space on the NASA Clementine moon probe. Also, the Tornado integrated development environment is launched and wins EDN's Embedded Development Software Innovation of the Year award as the first graphically oriented development environment for embedded. 1997: VxWorks, the real-time operating system for NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, lands on Mars. 1999: Acquisition of one of their major competitors, Integrated Systems Inc., makers of pSOS. Wind River has since discontinued the pSOS product line and has recommended existing pSOS customers move to VxWorks. 2004: Wind River officially enters the embedded Linux market, with a Carrier Grade Linux platform targeting the networking & communications infrastructure industry.
Also, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, powered by VxWorks, land on Mars. Wind River helped in manufacturing the for. The IntelliStar is used at Cable Headends to insert Local Weather into The Weather Channel's national programming. 2007: Wind River joins Google's Open Handset Alliance as an original Linux commercialization partner. 2008: Wind River establishes the embedded Linux market share lead with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue, four years after entering the market.
2009: Intel acquires Wind River for approximately $884 million and it becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. Wind River launches a commercial Android software platform. Wind River becomes a founding member of the GENIVI Alliance.
2010: Wind River adds Simics, a full system simulator, to its product portfolio. VxWorks becomes the first RTOS to be certified under Wurldtech's Achilles certification program, a standard for industrial cyber security. Wind River partners with Intel and the Linux Foundation to create the Yocto Project, an open source collaboration project providing templates, tools and methods to help developers create embedded Linux-based systems. 2011: VDC Research names Wind River the embedded market leader; including title of traditional RTOS market leader for its complete portfolio of products and services for the 2nd consecutive year, led by its VxWorks RTOS; and as the embedded Linux market leader for the 3rd consecutive year for its Wind River Linux platform and related solutions. 2012: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) successfully lands Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, powered by Wind River technology. Wind River debuts software platform targeted at gateways and hubs for the Internet of Things.
2013: Wind River becomes part of Intel's Internet of Things Group (IOTG), but remains a wholly owned subsidiary. 2014: Wind River introduces its commercial, carrier grade software platform for network functions virtualization (NFV) applications, as well as its next-generation VxWorks platform reinvented for the Internet of Things. 2014: Wind River fined $750,000 by for exporting encryption technology to countries including Israel and South Korea. In 2015 the company was accused of repeated trademark and licensing violations of the project, which as response has restricted its code to commercial partners only.
In 2016, Intel announced that it intended to fully integrate Wind River into one of its divisions (thus ending Wind River's status as a wholly owned subsidiary,) although the scheduled completion date of this action has not been made public. Barry Mainz left the company to become President and CEO of MobileIron and Jim Douglas assumes the position of President. Products Among the company's products are the, the operating system, and the -based Wind River Workbench. VxWorks began as an add-on to the operating system in the early 1980s. Wind River Workbench superseded the previous Tornado environment.
Main article: VxWorks is the original flagship product of Wind River. It is a real-time operating system intended for embedded devices. It runs on many architectures, and supports features such as, and. Wind River Linux Wind River's Linux product is source code and a build system that generate runtime images suitable for embedded devices. It supports a variety of architectures, including, and. In 2004, Wind River announced a partnership with to create a new Linux-based distribution for embedded devices. Wind River has since ended its partnership with Red Hat and now ships its own Linux distribution optimized for embedded Linux development.
Wind River released the first version of its embedded Linux distribution, Platform for Network Equipment - Linux Edition (PNE-LE) 1.0 in 2005. It was registered against the Carrier Grade Linux 2.0 specification and supported IA32 and PPC architectures.
They added other platforms in subsequent releases, General Purpose Platform - Linux Edition (GPP-LE) and Platform for Consumer Devices - Linux Edition PCD-LE) starting in version 1.4. In 2013 Wind River announced Wind River Linux 6.0. Wind River Systems acquired embedded technology in February 2007 and made a version available as Wind River Real-Time Core for Wind River Linux.
As of August 2011, Wind River has discontinued the Wind River Real-Time Core product line, effectively ending commercial support for the RTLinux product. On August 7, 2007, announced that it had chosen Wind River Systems as the software solution for its (later aborted). In 2008, Wind River announced cooperation with, and for development of a -based platform to control in-car electronics, which was extended in the in 2009.
In 2012, Wind River introduced a new version of Wind River Linux that was developed from the ™ open source development infrastructure and has achieved Yocto Project Compatible registration. Wind River (Diab) Compiler Wind River acquired 's Diab Compiler as part of its acquisition of Originally designed by Wind River's former CTO, it is now available as part of Wind River's VxWorks platforms. It can also be licensed separately for non-VxWorks users. The compiler supports, SH, and more architectures.
Tilcon Graphics Suite Tilcon Software Limited was acquired by Wind River in 2009. The Tilcon software consists of a graphical user interface builder - a tool that runs on a Windows or Linux host - and a GUI engine that runs on an embedded processor that renders graphics through a number of different standard graphics libraries. The Tilcon software supports, and operating systems. Simics The was added to Wind River's product portfolio after the acquisition of by in 2010. Wind River Titanium Server Introduced in 2014, the Wind River Titanium Server provides a (NFV) software platform used by network equipment suppliers to build NFV equipment. The product is based on Wind River Open Virtualization and includes Wind River Linux, an optimized real-time Kernel-Based (KVM), (Intel DPDK), accelerated vSwitch technologies and carrier grade enhancements to. The server provides the following basic capabilities:.
Fault Tolerant: capable of being configured to achieve a range of service availability requirements, including 'six nines' which is achieved by carrier-grade fault management features and reliable software. Performance: carrier-grade Accelerated vSwitch (AVS), responsible for providing the VM-to-VM (virtual machine) and VM to the outside network, achieves high and efficient network performance and scalability to maximize the number of subscribers per server. The Accelerated vSwitch (AVS) achieves a 20 fold improvement in performance. Manageability: scheduling and orchestration of workloads, failures, and security to management (SLAs). The platform manages applications through existing (OSS/BSS/NMS)systems ( / / and uses standards-based (APIs) Edge Management System The Edge Management System is a pre-integrated software stack that runs from the embedded device up through the to reduce product development times and total cost of ownership. It is a white-label offering of PTC solution (formerly Axeda) i.e. It uses PTC to provide this service.
The system is validated to work out-of-the-box with all (IoT) platform components, as well as other IoT vendors' components. The Edge Management System agent enables cloud connectivity to facilitate capabilities such as data capture, rules-based data analysis and response, configuration, and file transfer. It allows customers to quickly build industry-specific IoT solutions and integrate disparate enterprise systems, utilizing (API) management. BSD/OS Wind River acquired the software assets of Inc. (BSDI) in 2001.
These comprised the operating system, plus involvement in the project. The FreeBSD unit was divested as a separate entity in 2002 as FreeBSD Mall, Inc. Faced with competition from the open source and -based operating systems, Wind River discontinued BSD/OS in December 2003. However, by this time some technology from BSD/OS had been contributed to the BSD community. Markets Wind River's technologies are used in a wide range of markets including Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Energy, Industrial, Medical, Consumer Electronics and Networking & Communications. The products are used in industrial and transportation systems such as factory automation, robotics, rail transport, smart grids; military systems such as unmanned vehicles and military communications, telecommunication infrastructure equipment such as routers; automotive systems such as connected in-vehicle infotainment, digital cluster displays, telematics, braking systems; consumer devices such as multifunction printers; digital cameras, projectors, set-top boxes, traffic signals aircraft and aerospace systems such as Mars rovers and. Awards Wind River's recent achievements have been recognized in 2014 by winning numerous awards.
The company won the Carrier Network Virtualization Award for (NFV) Innovation for its Wind River Titanium Server. The award recognizes excellence and outstanding technologies developed for the NFV and Software-defined networking (SDN) industry. The introduction of the Wind River Titanium Server was deemed to 'revolutionize' the market by making carrier network virtualization a reality. For the sixth consecutive year, VDC Research recognized Wind River as the embedded Linux market leader for its Wind River Linux platform.
The VDC study which covered the global market for commercially available (RTOS) and non-real-time operating systems, determined that Wind River led the market for worldwide shipments of both RTOS and embedded Linux, and related services. According to VDC, Wind River retains its longstanding position as the traditional RTOS market leader for its portfolio of embedded products and services, led by its RTOS. Wind River was recognized three times in 2014 for excellence in customer and employee satisfaction: it was named a 2014 ACE award winner for excellence in customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, and partner satisfaction; it was recognized as a 'Top Workplace' by Bay Area News Group in which employee satisfaction surveys ranked Wind River among the top 100 Bay Area companies; and for the eighth consecutive year, its customer support organization achieved certification under the Service Capability & Performance (SCP) Standards. The SCP Standards quantify the effectiveness of customer support and services based upon a stringent set of performance criteria and represent the best practices in the industry. In 2015 TMCnet News reported that Wind River won a 2014 M2M Evolution (IoT) Excellence Award for its excellence and leadership in the evolution of the IoT for the Wind River Edge Management System. This award honors innovative products that support the collection and analysis of information to improve business and personal decision-making. Acquisitions.
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VxWorks 7 Boot up Screen (a wholly owned subsidiary of ) OS family Working state Current Initial release 1987; 31 years ago ( 1987) 7 / March 2014; 3 years ago ( 2014-03) Marketing target Platforms (including ), type Proprietary Official website VxWorks is a (RTOS) developed as by of, US. First released in 1987, VxWorks is designed for use in requiring real-time, deterministic performance and, in many cases, safety and security certification, for industries, such as aerospace and defense, medical devices, industrial equipment, robotics, energy, transportation, network infrastructure, automotive, and consumer electronics.
VxWorks supports Intel (x86, including the new SoC, and x86-64), MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, and ARM architectures. The RTOS can be used in multicore (AMP), (SMP), and mixed modes and multi-OS (via Type 1 hypervisor) designs on and processors. VxWorks comes with the kernel, middleware, board support packages, Wind River Workbench development suite and complementary third-party software and hardware technologies. In its latest release, VxWorks 7, the RTOS has been re-engineered for modularity and upgradeability so the OS kernel is separate from middleware, applications and other packages. Scalability, security, safety, connectivity, and graphics have been improved to address (IoT) needs. Contents.
History VxWorks started in the late 1980s as a set of enhancements to a simple called sold by Ready Systems (becoming a product in 1995). Wind River acquired rights to distribute VRTX and significantly enhanced it by adding, among other things, a and an. In 1987, anticipating the termination of its reseller contract by, Wind River developed its own kernel to replace VRTX within VxWorks. VxWorks key milestones are:. 1980s: VxWorks adds support for 32-bit processors.
1990s: VxWorks 5 becomes the first RTOS with a networking stack. 2000s: VxWorks 6 supports SMP and adds derivative industry-specific platforms. 2010s: VxWorks adds support for 64-bit processing and introduces VxWorks 7 for IoT in 2016. Platform overview VxWorks supports Intel (x86, including the new SoC, and x86-64), MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, and ARM architectures. The RTOS can be used in multicore (AMP), (SMP), and mixed modes and multi-OS (via Type 1 hypervisor) designs on 32- and 64-bit processors. The VxWorks Core Platform consists of a set of runtime components and development tools.
The run time components are an (UP and SMP; 32- and 64-bit), software for applications support (file system, core network stack, USB stack and inter-process communications) and hardware support (architecture adaptor, processor support library, device driver library and board support packages). VxWorks core development tools are compilers such as Diab, GNU, and Intel C Compiler (ICC)) and its build and config tools. The system also includes productivity tools such as its Workbench development suite and Intel tools and development support tools for asset tracking and host support.
The platform is a modular, vendor-neutral, that supports a range of third-party software and hardware. The OS kernel is separate from middleware, applications and other packages, which enables easier bug fixes and testing of new features.
An implementation of a layered source build system allows multiple versions of any stack to be installed at the same time so developers can select which version of any feature set should go into the VxWorks kernel libraries. Optional Profiles for VxWorks add incremental functionality required for specific industries (such as medical, industrial, networking and consumer) or technology-related capabilities, such as a small footprint RTOS (Microkernel Profile) and a Type 1 real-time (Virtualization Profile). Features VxWorks is designed for use in. A list of some of the features of the OS are:. with and and fast response. Native 64-bit operating system (only one 64-bit architecture supported: ). User-mode applications ('Real-Time Processes', or RTP) isolated from other user-mode applications as well as the kernel via mechanisms.
The spacecraft used VxWorks VxWorks is used by products over a wide range of market areas: aerospace and defense, automotive, industrial such as robots, consumer electronics, medical area and networking. Several notable products also use VxWorks as the onboard operating system.
Aerospace and defense Spacecraft. The rover scheduled to launch in 2020. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The, also known as the Curiosity rover. NASA Mars rovers (Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity). The Deep Space Program Science Experiment (DSPSE) also known as Clementine launched in 1994 running VxWorks 5.1 on a MIPS-based CPU responsible for the Star Tracker and image processing algorithms.
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