Freescale and Wind River Unite to Deliver Optimized Networking and Communications Platforms
May 16 2006 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Silicon and Device Software Leaders Combine Products, Platforms and
Ecosystems for Comprehensive Solutions That Help Customers Speed
Time to Market ORLANDO, Fla., May 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
(Wind River Worldwide User Conference) Freescale Semiconductor
(NYSE:FSLNYSE:FSL.B) and Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND)
have announced a strategic alliance aimed at helping customers
enhance system performance, reduce cost and accelerate time to
market. The alliance unites the breadth and depth of each company's
products and technologies to enable optimized solutions designed to
offer an easy, productive "out-of-the-box" experience for embedded
system and device software developers. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20041123/SFTU026LOGO ) "The
ultimate goal of this alliance is simple: offer our mutual
customers easier-to-use, better integrated and higher performance
solutions than competitive standalone offerings," said David
Perkins, senior vice president and general manager of Freescale's
Networking and Computing Systems Group. "Freescale and Wind River
have a long and fruitful history of collaboration. This alliance
deepens our partnership to enable a comprehensive set of highly
integrated, performance-optimized solutions for home, enterprise,
and networking and communications infrastructure markets." A
cornerstone of the alliance is to provide extensive support for
Freescale's PowerQUICC(TM) communications processors and host
processors containing PowerPC(R) cores. This support will be
delivered across Wind River's broad portfolio of Device Software
Optimization (DSO) solutions, including its VxWorks real-time
operating system (RTOS) platforms, carrier- grade Linux(R)
platforms and eclipse-based development suite. Customers can
leverage Wind River's industry-leading DSO solutions throughout the
full range of Freescale's communications processors, enabling a
common, scalable development environment for applications of any
size or complexity. The alliance is designed to combine Wind
River's run-time software platforms and Freescale's hardware
acceleration architectures, including integrated security engines,
to provide performance-optimized solutions for customers in the
communications and networking markets. Target applications for the
joint solutions include wireline and wireless communications
infrastructure, enterprise switching and routing, SOHO and home
networking and high-end industrial control. "As undisputed market
leaders, Wind River and Freescale can jointly leverage the scale
and breadth of our products, capabilities and market presence to
deliver easy-to-use solutions our customers require," said Ken
Klein, chairman, president and chief executive office at Wind
River. "Customers increasingly demand whole-product solutions that
tightly integrate silicon, operating systems, tools, boards and
applications and are easy to use and deploy. This alliance will
expedite the delivery of these integrated solutions and enhance our
customers' time to market." To underscore the momentum of their
alliance, Freescale and Wind River joined forces at the 2006
Worldwide User Conference on a demonstration milestone. The two
companies are showcasing the first public demonstration of
Freescale's dual-core MPC8641D processor running the VxWorks RTOS
on both cores in concert with Wind River's innovative multicore
debugger capabilities. The MPC8641D contains two high-performance
e600 PowerPC cores unified in a system-on-chip architecture that
combines high-speed interconnects, such as Serial RapidIO(TM)
interconnect technology, Gigabit Ethernet and PCI Express. Based on
key elements of the alliance, Freescale and Wind River plan to: *
Provide broad enablement for Freescale's PowerQUICC and host
processors across Wind River's flagship software platforms,
including the VxWorks RTOS, commercial Linux OS editions and
development tools. * Develop performance-optimized operating system
and software stacks that leverage Freescale's SoC hardware
acceleration blocks and high- speed interfaces. This combination of
Freescale silicon and Wind River software is designed to deliver
best-in-class performance for embedded applications. * Offer
customers an easy "out-of-the-box" experience for a wide range of
evaluation and reference platforms based on VxWorks and Linux OS *
Increase the availability and performance of middleware "proof-of-
concept" platform demonstrations and reference designs for specific
applications. * Promote Freescale's and Wind River's combined
platform solutions through joint marketing initiatives and global
sales efforts. About Freescale Semiconductor Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and
manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive,
consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Freescale
became a publicly traded company in July 2004 after more than 50
years as part of Motorola, Inc. The company is based in Austin,
Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or
sales operations in more than 30 countries. Freescale, a member of
the S&P 500(R), is one of the world's largest semiconductor
companies with 2005 sales of $5.8 billion (USD).
http://www.freescale.com/ 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. Founded in 1981, Wind
River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations
worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at
http://www.windriver.com/ or call 1-800-872-4977. NOTE:
Freescale(TM) and the Freescale logo are trademarks of Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc. All other product or service names are the
property of their respective owners. The "PowerPC" name is a
trademark of IBM Corp. and used under license. The Wind River logo
is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and
VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other
marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.
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