Wind River Advances Operating System Portfolio with Two Software Acquisitions; DSP and Embedded Unix Complete Unique, End to End Offering.Business/Technology Editors ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2001 Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for connected smart devices, today announced that it signed definitive agreements to acquire all the software assets of BSDi and Eonic Systems, NV. These new technologies extend Wind River's operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. portfolio to include offerings for digital signal processors (DSPs) that convert analog signals to digital as well as operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. for embedded Unix applications. (See related press releases from Wind River today). Wind River's existing software products combined with DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive and embedded UNIX operating systems make Wind River the only company in the world that can provide end-to-end embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. . Wind River will offer its value chain of services, middleware components such as networking, Java, and graphics; the Tornado(R) integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment and compatible products from its 600 member WindLink(TM) partner program across its operating system family. Customers will now have solutions from a single vendor that address the entire spectrum of embedded applications -- from high-volume, memory constrained devices that typically utilize DSP's to full-featured embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. that require the capability of a full Unix environment. This strategy is expected to be particularly appealing to embedded developers who need to use multiple operating systems of differing capabilities to quickly build increasingly complex embedded applications. "By adopting these two operating systems, one for the small memory footprint Memory footprint refers to the amount of main memory that a program uses or references while running. This includes all sorts of active memory regions like code, static data sections (both initialized and uninitialized), heap, as well as all the stacks, plus memory required to hold needs of DSP's and the other for the large-scale demands of Internet infrastructure designs, we are able to bring embedded developers the widest range of reliable and innovative operating platforms," said Wind River President and Chief Executive Officer, Tom St. Dennis. "After weighing all of the options, we felt strongly that BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. was the best foundation for an embedded Unix solution. Along with the commercial BSD/OS and a DSP-based operating systems, Wind River will be continuing support for FreeBSD, the open source software that is the basis for BSD/OS. The BSD license offers great protection for intellectual property, a key consideration for embedded developers who very often differentiate their products through software innovation. And, with its long history and wide adoption, we feel it's the most advanced and reliable Unix implementation in the world." "The embedded universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate with greater demands for functionality and time to market," said Wind River co-founder and Chairman Jerry Fiddler. "A single set of tools for a variety of operating systems embedded will help developers tremendously by reducing integration and development time. This puts Wind River in a great position to help advance embedded technology and promote developer innovation." About Wind River Wind River, www.windriver.com, is a worldwide leader in embedded software and services for creating connected smart devices. Wind River provides software development tools, real-time operating systems, and advanced connectivity for use in products throughout the Internet, telecommunications and data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , digital imaging, digital consumer electronics, networking, medical, computer peripherals, automotive, industrial automation and control, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is how smart things think. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California Alameda is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. It is located on a small island of the same name next to Oakland, California in the San Francisco Bay. An additional part of the city is Bay Farm Island, which is adjacent to the Oakland International Airport. , with operations in sixteen countries worldwide. Note to Editors: Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo, VxWorks, and Tornado are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. |
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