Bringing the Flexibility and Power of Open Standards and Eclipse Technologies to the DSO Industry
Truly differentiated devices. This is what you need to focus your time, resources, and money on developing and to not waste time on projects that don't add real value for your customers, such as operating system refinements, middleware, and upgrades to custom software. Wind River can help. We understand what you're up against in the device world. Heterogeneous systems, multiple processors, multiple hardware architectures, diverse operating systems, and programming languages all add to the complexity and the challenges you face.
To successfully develop device software, you need the following:
- Hardware bring-up, BSPs, and firmware: A stable hardware and software foundation has to be in place so you can take advantage of portability of connected applications.
- Integrated toolsets: Facilitate efficient workflow and optimize the development process.
- Ability to reuse intellectual property: Your enterprise shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel for every new project.
- Support for multiple device technologies: You need the freedom to choose the best processor, hardware architecture, and operating system for your device.
- Support for open standards: With your development environment, you should be able to choose from best-of-breed tools that work together.
- Visibility into your target system: You need to see beyond source code and into system behavior and performance.
- Assurance of quality: Rigorous testing must ensure a product meets basic performance requirements.
- Project management: Support remote teams and collaboration between hardware and software developers.
Wind River Workbench: The Answer to the Device Development Challenge
Wind River Workbench is built on the twin pillars of Wind River's DSO strategy—standardization and choice—and enhances the productivity of your individual developers and the efficiency of your development teams across the enterprise.
This suite of Eclipse-based tools can accelerate your time-to-market when building devices with VxWorks and Wind River Linux. Workbench is the only end-to-end device software development suite with visual configuration and analysis tools that streamline design, development, debugging, test, and management. And it is built on the open framework for tool integration developed by the Eclipse Foundation—an ecosystem of tools developers.
The following are features of Wind River Workbench:
- It is extensible, customizable, and integrated with leading development infrastructure systems.
- It has a robust set of plug-in tools that enhance the standard open source Eclipse framework, extending its capabilities.
- It enables you to standardize on a common toolset across development teams, regardless of location and software development/test phase.
- It supports the latest market-leading silicon; Wind River is a leader in multicore, debugging, and diagnostics.
As the leading provider of RTOSes, Wind River entered the development tools business as a way to provide support to engineers building devices with VxWorks. That experience gave us a portfolio of best-in-class tools for all phases of the device software development process. To supplement our proprietary tools, we work closely with the open source community. We established the Eclipse Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) project, to bring the flexibility and power of open standards and Eclipse technologies to the DSO industry.
Workbench counters complexity by integrating a host of key open source, proprietary, and partner technologies that work out of the box. It offers flexibility through product configuration options, unprecedented extensibility, and a choice of business models.
Workbench is backed by 24/7 global technical support, customer education, and specialized professional services to help jump-start your next project—all from the leader in DSO.
