General Purpose Platform
VxWorks was created in the early 1980s, when Wind River's founders set out to scale the
expertise they'd gathered in the Real-Time Systems Group at the Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory from large physics experiments to device control systems.
They made some fundamental decisions about what a real-time embedded operating
system should be and have shaped the product, and the industry, ever since. Over
more than 20 years, VxWorks has evolved through six incrementally improved
releases and has been deployed in more than 350 million devices, making it the
most widely used and thoroughly tested real-time operating system available
today. Three key factors have driven VxWorks' domination of the RTOS market:
- It has evolved in tandem with powerful development tools that make it
easy and efficient to use.
- It has kept pace with advances in hardware platforms.
- It has met the evolving needs of Wind River customers across a broad
range of industries.
The exponentially increasing complexity of device software today
means two things for device manufacturers. First, one monolithic operating
system cannot meet all needs. Second, an operating system alone is only one
element of a successful device software solution. Wind River's Commercial Grade
VxWorks complements state-of-the-art RTOS technology with integrated, supported,
standards-based development and run-time platforms tailored to the needs of
specific vertical markets. This secure, customizable, COTS solutions shorten
time-to-productivity, time-to-innovation, time-to-market, and time-to-profit.
Great engineering, extensive partnerships, world-class support, and the
market-leading DSO strategy combine to make VxWorks both development-ready and
commercial-grade.
VxWorks Technology
Open,
optimized tools and development environment Wind River VxWorks platforms include
Wind River Workbench, an integrated, Eclipse-based development suite for every
phase of device software development, from hardware and board bring-up through
application development, platform integration, and test. Not only does Workbench
come with first-rate compiling, debugging, and code analysis tools, its Eclipse
framework enables developers to snap in and leverage hundreds of open-source,
in-house, and proprietary tools. Workbench is operating-system-agnostic,
allowing companies to standardize development practices while choosing the most
effective OS for the application they want to build. Wind River is a Strategic
Member of the Eclipse Foundation and leader of the Device Software Development
Platform (DSDP) project.
Integrated middleware
Wind
River VxWorks platforms ship with tested, validated, and pre-integrated run-time
technologies matched to vertical market needs, allowing development teams to
invest their time and energy in innovative engineering at the application level,
rather than spend them on basic, low-level tasks. Modular middleware includes
networking, Web services, security, wireless, management, and graphics
technologies, as well as support for industry-specific run-time capabilities.
Modules provide scalability out-of-the-box
Not all
projects that require an RTOS have the same needs. Consumer devices need
super-fast boot times, for example, while medical and industrial applications
must offer extreme reliability. VxWorks now offers customers four modular
configuration choices, ranging from a minimal but fully bootable kernel (about
36KB, including BSP); a kernel with basic services; a basic OS that supports
applications; and a platform-capable operating system that supports middleware,
including networking and file systems (600+ KB). Companies can select the
run-time configuration best suited to the device they want to build, with no
sacrifice of API support.
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