Wind River is working with Intel to address the issue of complexity when it comes to programming multicore processors in embedded systems.
The software platform supplier believes there is a need for closing lining of software and hardware in the design of embedded multicore-based systems.
“The pace of multicore technology adoption has been slowed because hardware and software vendors have not been collaborating at this level,” said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer at Wind River.
One aim will be the optimisation of Wind River VxWorks and Wind River Linux for porting to embedded multicore processors. This will also involve tuning the hypervisor technology for Intel processors.
Intel’s compiler primitives will be integrated into Wind River multicore software platforms.
The companies said they are addressing the challenges associated with enabling software for multicore processors. “Our plan to provide co-developed, highly optimised solutions,” said Bruggeman.
The first step will be wider VxWorks symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for Core2 and Xeon processors, this will include support of Wind River’s Workbench and On-Chip Debugging development suite.
Wind River is demonstrating its hypervisor technology on the Atom processor Z530 platform this week at Embedded World in Nuremburg, Germany.
The two companies will initially target the aerospace and defence, network infrastructure, industrial, medical and imaging market segments.
Last year the two companies started working on Linux-based platforms for Atom targeted at the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and Mobile Internet Device (MID) markets.
Wind River and Intel are among the founding members of the GENIVI Alliance, a non-profit organization committed to driving the development and broad adoption of an open source IVI reference platform, which was announced on March 2, 2009.
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