(openPR) - Wind River and Freescale enable customers to deploy products using Wind River DSO platforms on new Freescale multi-core processor platform

Wind River, the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), announced its support for Freescale Semiconductor's new Multi-core Communications Platform. The platform is an innovative multi-core architecture designed to deliver breakthrough efficiencies, performance and scale, while addressing the emerging challenges of multi-core software development. Wind River intends to support the MPC8572D multi-core processor, which is sampling now. Wind River will be supporting forthcoming products based on Freescale's new multi-core processor roadmap.

Wind River offers a flexible choice of tools, run-time environments and interprocessor communication protocols and technologies for the development and optimization of multi-core and multiprocessing solutions. Successful adoption of new silicon is often gated by the availability of required ecosystem components. Wind River VxWorks and Linux operating systems are both already widely used today with Freescale silicon in communication applications. By supporting Freescale's Multi-core Communications Platform, Wind River will enable easy migration of software from today's leading communications products to future versions based on this innovative new hardware platform. Similarly, by providing both an RTOS-based platform and a Linux-based platform, Wind River gives customers confidence and mitigates risk for their design as their multiprocessing requirements change over time.

Wind River will continue to invest in adding capabilities specific to the needs of multi-core device developers and will offer these capabilities to developers working with Freescale's Multi-core Communications Platform as new processors are released.

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Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.
Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, call 1-800-872-4977 or visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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