It has been a busy quarter for Wind River (News - Alert), provider of embedded multi-core solutions and mobile software, with news of partnerships, software updates and interoperability testing.

Most recently, Wind River announced the extension of its architecture support for Wind River Hypervisor, a technology designed to help companies consolidate systems and adopt virtualization and embedded multi-core technology in embedded devices.

Wind River Hypervisor extends its hardware architecture support to include ARM (News - Alert) Cortex-A9 MPCore. With this support, the high-performance embedded hypervisor offers a unique synergy of capabilities that will enhance the use of embedded virtualization across a wide range of market segments, according to company officials.

"The effective adoption and optimization of embedded virtualization and multi-core when developing embedded devices are game changers across all the markets we serve," said Cory Bialowas, vice president of embedded virtualization product management at Wind River, in a statement.

The hypervisor also supports Windows 7 as a guest operating system on Intel (News - Alert) architecture. The new support for Microsoft Windows 7 allows customers to achieve workload consolidation by running real-time applications alongside graphics-rich HMI software. With the added capability, companies in the industrial and medical market segments are able to run real-time applications alongside human machine interface (HMI) applications.

"Wind River's unique combination of a high-performance hypervisor, deeply integrated operating systems, and advanced graphical tools for configuring, debugging and profiling virtualized embedded targets, provide significant opportunities for companies building next-generation products," Bialowas added.

With its support for the SR-IOV standard, the new hypervisor release also enables networking companies on Intel architecture to take advantage of PCIe device isolation and partitioning. This support also offers the ability to share Ethernet devices among multiple virtual machines while maintaining hardware access speeds.

Wind River was recently recognized as the embedded virtualization market leader by VDC Research Group in its 2011 'Virtualization for Mobile and Embedded Systems' report. Wind River achieved the highest share of the market in 2010 with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue.

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Stefanie Mosca is a Managing Editor for TMCnet, with a particular focus in wireless technologies as well as mobile and IP communications. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Quinnipiac University and a bachelor's degree in communication from the University of New Haven. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page or follow her on Twitter (News - Alert) @stefaniemosca.

Edited by Juliana Kenny