Wind River has released new version of embedded real-time operating system VxWorks, which it claims to provide product differentiation through increased performance, a smaller footprint and hardware platform flexibility.
The company said that the new VxWorks 6.8 is enabled with improved OS primitives, USB support and file system performance, providing customers with increased product quality and improved product performance.
According to Wind River, the new version comes with features and benefits including, a mobile IP support to provide devices with networking capabilities for 4G and pre-4G including LTE and WiMAX technologies; increased multicore processor support for Intel Core i7 processor, ARM MPCore and Cortex A9; Freescale QorIQ P2020; Cavium 54xx, 55xx, 56xx, 57xx, 58xx; and RMI XLR, XLS; symmetric multiprocessing performance improvements and SMP core reservation.
The new version provides asymmetric multiprocessing enhancements such as AMP spin locks and an upgrade to multi-OS inter-process communication with MIPC version 2.0, the company said.
In addition, VxWorks 6.8 features new small ARM footprint profile for creating embedded applications with very small memory requirements; and developer tool productivity improvements, including VxWorks core dump file and analysis, and improvements to multicore and multi-OS debugging and user workflows, Wind River added.
