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Wind River's Embedded Multi-core Software Tools Optimized for Intel Architecture

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September 23, 2011

Wind River's Embedded Multi-core Software Tools Optimized for Intel Architecture

By Rajani Baburajan, TMCnet Contributor


Wind River (News - Alert), a provider of embedded and mobile software, announced it has optimized the Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging, its suite of embedded software development tools, for Intel (News - Alert) architecture, allowing embedded device customers across a wide range of industries develop more effectively and efficiently for Intel-based embedded platforms.


Based on the Eclipse platform, Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging is a standards-based graphical debugging solution that simplifies the entire embedded development lifecycle and enhances developer efficiency.  These development tools offer greater choice and flexibility allowing developers to create systems based on VxWorks and Wind River Linux operating systems or other operating systems.

As embedded systems become more complicated and difficult to debug, there is a need for highly tuned, multi-core and OS-aware tools. Workbench On-Chip Debugging tool allows developers deep visibility into their embedded system during all phases of the development cycle, company officials said.

This Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) product is optimized for embedded Intel processors including Intel Atom, Core and Xeon processors targeted for embedded system development. It is incorporated with support for debugging dynamically loaded EFI modules and visibility into UEFI data structures, enabling developers to customize, optimize and debug boot-loaders, and BIOS.

The Intel architecture views and utilities enable users to quickly assess the state of their platform. It also allows them to monitor key elements such as descriptor tables, paging tables, virtual to physical memory mapping, PCI (News - Alert) bus, and CPU and peripheral registers.

Additionally, serial peripheral interface (SPI) Flash programming incorporated in Workbench On-Chip Debugging streamlines the development process by eliminating the need to use a standalone flash programming tool.

“Wind River continues to combine Intel technology within our best-in-class development tools for VxWorks and Wind River Linux run-time platforms and deliver tools that help customers optimize performance, improve developer productivity and shorten time-to-market for their Intel-based projects,” said Brian Finkel, product line manager for tools at Wind River, in a statement.

As the complexity increases with integration and reuse of software components, as well as rise of multi-core processor adoption, developers are challenged with the diagnosis of hardware and software issues. Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging is designed to address these challenges by providing visibility into all layers of a system to help pinpoint trouble spots in hardware and software interaction.

Wind River is a subsidiary of Intel. Back in June, Wind River announced it has achieved "Ready for IBM (News - Alert) Rational Software" technical validation for Wind River Test Management, a test automation system for monitoring, executing and managing embedded device software testing.


Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Stefanie Mosca







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