September 7, 2011 – Wind River's Hypervisor now supports ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, providing companies in the industrial market with the ability to run real-time applications alongside human machine interface (HMI) applications.
Additionally, new support for Microsoft Windows 7 allows customers to achieve workload consolidation by running real-time applications alongside graphics-rich HMI software. Wind River Hypervisor provides the guaranteed separation and isolation on ARM, Intel and Freescale’s QorIQ, and lays the foundation for running functions requiring safety certification by government and regulatory bodies (e.g., IEC-61508), and/or security certified workloads alongside other workloads, thereby reducing certification costs and allowing for the creation of more innovative devices. Network equipment providers will benefit from new scalability features, such as the ability to dynamically create virtual machines and migrate them between CPU cores to save power.
The release also provides an internal Ethernet switch that enables users to create isolated internal networks and inter-virtual machine communication through standards-based protocols. Additionally, networking companies on Intel architecture will be able to take advantage of PCIe device isolation and partitioning with this release’s support for the SR-IOV standard which offers the ability to share Ethernet devices among multiple virtual machines while maintaining hardware access speeds. Wind River Hypervisor is an integral part of Wind River’s comprehensive embedded software portfolio. It supports virtualization and partitioning for embedded systems, provides integration with Wind River and third party operating systems, and provides a complete virtualization-aware development environment.
Wind River Hypervisor allows device software developers to take advantage of multicore and virtualization to create high-performing products quickly and easily, while decreasing time-to-market and increasing product competitiveness for next-generation devices.
