Date: 06/03/2011

Wind River supports embedded kit developers with BSPs and other software

Wind River has expanded its On-Board Program to support commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) processor board vendors to develop, test and validate their own unique Embedded Development Kits for the first time.

Wind River said it would enable board vendors to create their own Embedded Development Kits using Wind River's automated board support package (BSP) validation suite, technical support and training.

The following are updates for Embedded Development Kits:
Wind River will provide training and support to enable each board partner to create its own unique Embedded Development Kits, which offers each partner more control and greater flexibility at a faster production pace.
During creation stages, board partners will utilize high-quality Wind River BSP test suites using Wind River Test Management to validate the quality of the partner's BSP.
All test suites are fully automated and include comprehensive BSP testing, running code through quality assurance scripts, confirming accuracy and uncovering potential bugs.
When testing is complete, a report is generated providing a detailed description of each passed and failed component of the BSP.
Once the Embedded Development Kit passes all testing, Wind River will review the test results and approve the software, and the Embedded Development Kit then is ready for inclusion with the partner's development board.

"Software quality assurance has never been more important, or more difficult, and embedded developers are being pressed to deliver products faster than ever," said Barry Mainz, chief operating officer at Wind River. "With this next phase of the Wind River On-Board Program, our ecosystem of board partners can now leverage our software, automated testing, tools and BSP validation methods to create exponentially more Embedded Development Kits, in turn controlling their costs and diminishing their customers' development risks while still maintaining supreme reliability and high quality."

"Using the Embedded Development Kits have proved instrumental in securing a number of important design wins in the past six months," said Arlen Nipper, chief technology officer of Eurotech in North America. "Customers have reacted positively to the outstanding out-of-the-box experience, and have increased confidence that they can achieve their technical and time-to-market requirements with reduced risk as a result. Additionally, by expanding the Wind River On-Board Program we can now utilize Wind River's automated BSP validation suite, which will allow us to quickly create our own unique Embedded Development Kits and respond more rapidly to customers' ambitious schedules and requirements."

Availability:
Embedded Development Kits from ADLINK, Advantech, Emerson, Eurotech, Intel and Kontron are available today. Additional Embedded Development Kits from Curtiss-Wright, GE, RadiSys and other vendors are expected to be available later in 2011.