Multiprocessing Solutions for Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core Processor

Wind River helps to take full advantage of the performance benefits of multicore hardware components

Wind River demonstrated a complete end-to-end multicore solution optimized for the Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core Processor. Wind River optimized the solution by tailoring its industry-leading device software including: commercial-grade integrated development suite, on-chip debugging tools, run-time environments, interprocessor communication protocols, and middleware technologies for the development of devices running the MPC8641D Dual Core Processor built on Power Architecture™ technology. Multicore solutions from Freescale and Wind River help remove the complexity associated with developing a software solution on a multicore silicon system while taking full advantage of the performance benefits of multicore hardware components.

Wind River provides a robust, flexible choice of operating environment by supporting symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and homogenous and heterogeneous asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) options based on Linux and VxWorks. Running two copies of VxWorks – one for each core – the solution utilizes the maximum processing capability of homogenous AMP. The processes running on each core communicate via the Transparent Interprocess Communication (TIPC) protocol using shared memory as the bearer in order to coordinate tasks and resources. TIPC gives designers the flexibility to divide the functionality of their device in ways that best optimizes their application and allows the designer to assign distinct tasks to each processor core, thus delivering an optimal software and hardware environment.

Wind River Workbench integrates the industry’s most powerful test and visualization tools to monitor, analyze, and debug at every phase of development. Wind River’s development suite enables multicore debugging with a single emulator connection by working in conjunction with Wind River's newest JTAG hardware run control device, Wind River ICE. Through Wind River’s JTAG server technology, optimized to the specifications of the Freescale MPC8641D, developers can debug multiple cores at the same time, whether they are on the same chip or in the same system.

About Wind River

Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run 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.

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