Date: 13/09/2010

Eurotech and Windriver announce strategic collaboration

Eurotech and Wind River have announced a strategic collaboration to support joint sales, marketing and distribution of Embedded Development Kits. Eurotech will provide Embedded Development Kits with validated board support packages of Wind River's embedded Linux operating system with Eurotech's Intel Atom processor-based hardware.

Each Embedded Development Kit includes a bootable USB flash drive that immediately turns any host computer into a fully integrated development environment with no installation required. The 30-day trial software from Wind River is optimized for developing, running, debugging and prototyping embedded software directly onto a Eurotech processor board using Wind River Workbench. Each Eurotech board comes preconfigured to boot Wind River Linux out of the box and the option of Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite. Each Embedded Development Kit is customized with a startup guide and a set of comprehensive, step-by-step tutorials that walk developers through applicable use cases and workflows. The Embedded Development Kit processor board is optimized for Wind River's embedded software and development tools.

"We have been working closely with Wind River, and today's announcement formalizes our tight collaboration. We've recently completed development efforts to ensure our Intel Atom processor-based product line can not only run a standard Wind River Linux BSP but that each OS available on our products has been optimized to our individual platforms," said Arlen Nipper, chief technology officer of Eurotech in North America. "Now we can offer Wind River Linux 3.0x kernels on many of our Intel Atom-based platforms as fully validated implementations of Wind River Linux with a prelicensed kernel run-time, which will mitigate risks associated with software integration and rapidly increase time-to-market."

"Wind River and Eurotech have worked diligently to formalize an out-of-the-box hardware and software solution that provides the foundation for rapid innovation," said Jens Wiegand, vice president of industry solutions at Wind River. "By using preintegrated hardware components, OEMs can spend more time developing differentiated products than integrating third-party technologies and reduce overall project risk to ultimately get their products to market faster."