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1 Wind River VxWorks Edition P R O D U C T N O T E Wind River, VxWorks Edition (version 3.0) unifies a robust real-time operating system, a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE), flexible middleware solutions, training to jump-start your development, and Professional Services when you need them to extend your capabilities. WIND RIVER GENERAL PURPOSE PLATFORM 3.0, VXWORKS EDITION COMPONENTS: VxWorks 6.0 A new release of Wind River s industry-leading real-time operating system. Wind River Workbench 2.2 A new release of Wind River s fully integrated IDE. Middleware Powerful capabilities to support flash file systems, distributed message passing and shared backplane memory. The real-time operating system: VxWorks 6.0 VxWorks is the most established and most widely deployed device software operating system. Its performance, scalability, and footprint make more than 300 million devices worldwide run faster and more reliably. The next generation of VxWorks adds powerful new features and a focus on openness, performance, reliability and interoperability. With VxWorks 6.0 companies can: Optimize developer productivity through open standards Increase reliability through MMU-based memory protection Accelerate time-to-market through enhanced error management Seamlessly migrate existing VxWorks-based IP and other existing IP, including open source Continue to deliver products that rely on the core attributes of VxWorks, including high performance, reliability, determinism, low latency and scalability s 02 IDE Middleware Distributed Messaging* Complementary solution elements include an integrated development environment (Wind River Workbench), broad middleware availability, broad processor and Board Support Package (BSP) availability, Wind River Services support, legions of experienced VxWorks developers and an expansive ecosystem of tools, hardware, middleware and application providers. OS *Available in a later release Compatibility One of the important goals of VxWorks 6.0 was to ease the migration from VxWorks 5.5 to VxWorks 6.0. To that end, the kernel of VxWorks 6.0 completely supports the VxWorks 5.5 kernel operating environment. Any BSPs, drivers, and kernel

2 s 02 applications developed for or ported to VxWorks 5.5 will run in the VxWorks 6.0 kernel, with only a recompilation required. By default, the VxWorks 6.0 kernel builds as that of VxWorks 5.5. A set of migration guides provided in the product documentation describe Migrating BSPs and drivers Migrating VxWorks 5.5 kernel apps to the VxWorks 6.0 kernel and to user-mode Migrating VxWorks AE applications to VxWorks 6.0 usermode Migrating from Tornado and SNiFF+ tools to Wind River Workbench 2.2 In addition, VxWorks 6.0 provides increased support for open standards. This promotes compatibility between open source applications and VxWorks 6.0. Increased POSIX compliance enhances ease of porting open source and 3rd party software to VxWorks Standard process-based programming model reduces the learning curve for programming new applications on VxWorks 6.0 Support for IPv6 enables development of the next generation of networked devices Standard sockets-based and modular message channels provide a common communication interface State-of-the-art memory protection VxWorks 6.0 enables manufacturers to increase their device reliability through MMU-based memory protection. VxWorks introduces process-based, user-mode application execution in addition to VxWorks traditional kernel-mode execution. The kernel is protected from user-mode applications running in VxWorks Real-Time Processes (RTPs). These are also protected from each other. Memory protection features: MMU-based memory protection provides isolation of kernel from user-mode applications and of applications from each other, increasing device reliability Standard, process-based programming model simplifies application development Support of Real-Time Processes on MMU-less processors reduces device cost by enabling use of low-cost processors The ability to use RTPs with the MMU enabled during development and with the MMU disabled during deployment speeds development and maximizes device performance VxWorks preemptive, priority-based global task scheduler ensures real-time deterministic behavior Ability to create private or public objects in the kernel and in Real-Time Processes enables flexibility to use objects that are protected from manipulation, or that can easily be shared among kernel and process tasks Extensible system call interface enables application RTP 2 Task Task Task developers to employ RTP 2 Code Heap custom-developed kernel services from user-mode RTP 1 Task Task Task execution Support for shared libraries RTP 1 Code Heap among Real-Time Processes improves code efficiency and reusability, also enabling VxWorks Kernel Environment faster code development and Sem A Sem B Msg Q Task Task Task debugging App A Code App B Code VxWorks OS Modules VxWorks BSP App C Code App D Code Driver1 Driver2 Message Channels With memory protection comes the challenge of segmentation of applications into protected memory spaces. Message Channels are a new, connection-orientated, bi-directional messaging mechanism that allows tasks to communicate across memory boundaries and complement traditional communication mechanisms provided in VxWorks. Tasks located in different processes or in the kernel can establish connections with each other independent of their location. Communication can take place between one task in a process and another in the kernel, or between tasks in separate processes, or between tasks in the same process. Message Channels are designed for extension to multi-processor use in a future VxWorks release. Wind River Network Stack Heap Manager The dual-mode IPv4/IPv6 Network Stack is an integral part of VxWorks 6.0. It represents a major overhaul of the VxWorks default network protocol stack aimed at introducing a stronger separation between the kernel and the network applications, as well as supporting the new VxWorks 6.0 application environment with full backward compatibility to previous releases. Wind River Network Stack fully utilizes new OS functionalities and also supports an enhanced TCP/IP protocol stack with support for both IPv4 and IPv6 protocol suites. High performance and scalability are two key elements of this stack. The dual IPv4/IPv6 network stack is based on a port of the KAME/FreeBSD TCP/IP release.

3 Wind River has invested significant effort and engineering resources into optimizing the TCP/IP stack for typical constraints found in device software environments. Optimizations include improved memory management and efficient timer capabilities. The implementation of certain heuristics further improves the reliability of the network stack. In addition, Wind River Network Stack has a clean code structure for easy integration and faster implementation. Extensive RTP 2 testing against third-party test suites and external test lab validation ensures high quality, Task Task standards conformance and interoperability. RTP 1 Wind River Network Stack 2.0 key benefits: Clear and structured code for ease of configuration and maintenance Flexible configuration options to optimize required memory resources Reply Async Send Fire & Forget VxWorks Kernel Environment Reply Block until Reply Full integration with the VxWorks 6.0 operating system, Wind River Workbench, device management products and peripheral networking protocols and utilities IPv6-enhanced utilities and applications with extensive quality and interoperability testing: IPv6 Forum-approved as IPv6 Ready Wind River Network Stack 2.0 supports: IPv4/IPv6 dual stack implementation Several IPv4 and IPv6 applications running on one or multiple RTPs Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Protocol, Version 2 Remote file access protocols such as RSH, FTP, Telnet and TFTP DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 Standard BSD socket interface to TCP and UDP All of the current IPv4-only stack functionality from VxWorks Auto IPv4 configuration Wind River Network Stack 2.0 includes: Both fastpathlib and fastudp to improve performance Implementations of the UNIX-style network stack configuration and monitoring utilities Implementation of RIP and RIPng Standard MIBs for IPv4, UDP, TCP, ICMP and the network interfaces to support SNMP management Memory management Though VxWorks 6.0 provides MMU-enabled memory protection, it continues to utilize the non-overlapped address space that has been used in all earlier versions of VxWorks. The nonoverlapped memory model promotes backward compatibility with legacy VxWorks code, and it provides the following benefits: High determinism and low latency are maintained by not requiring memory to be mapped in or out, and also by not requiring unnecessary cache flushes Address pointers are unique, enabling re-use of existing VxWorks drivers and applications, and simplifying new driver and application development Support for both MMU-enabled and MMU-less processors gives device manufacturers more flexibility to choose processors to fit capability and budget requirements Memory translation tables are not required, saving memory space and improving memory access performance Other VxWorks 6.0 memory management enhancements include: Automatic resource reclamation forts, to maximize memory availability and help prevent memory leaks, improving device robustness Improved memory allocation uses best-fit algorithm to reduce memory fragmentation and increase memory allocation performance User-mode heap and memory partition support, to enable RTPs and user-mode execution Developer-replaceable user-mode heap allocator, to maximize system design flexibility Heap instrumentation for heaps and memory partitions in both the kernel and RTPs, to assist in diagnosing common memory problems by detecting and reporting memory errors Tight integration with error management, to maximize reliability and minimize time to market Compiler-assisted code instrumentation, to improve static code analysis of memory errors Error management Wind River provides an error management framework to help customers isolate, diagnose and correct error conditions encountered during development and testing. With this framework, customers can manage failures, minimizing the need to reproduce the failure in order to diagnose the device. VxWorks 6.0 error management framework, with error detection and reporting technology, provides a foundation for debugging device software out of the box and is extensible to enable customers to design reliable devices. s 02

4 s 02 Major capabilities: ISR/Task stack overrun detection Code corruption detection Null pointer usage detection Heap block overrun detection User Application: RTP RTOS Error Management EDR System Call Error Detection Error Handling Policies Error Injection Routines BSP Target Hardware Heap usage tracking and leakage detection RTP error detection API support for kernel application errors API support for RTP User-mode application errors Adaptable error handling policies EDR API Comprehensive error records with common headers, key OS information, hardware information, and user defined optional string Processor Abstraction Layer Kernel Error Log User Application: Kernel Memory Management Persistent Memory Configuration Persistent Memory With VxWorks 6.0, the Processor Abstraction Layer (PAL) provides the capability to extend OS support to similar architecture families with relatively less effort than with earlier versions of VxWorks. An architecture-specific PAL defines the functional interconnects for each architecture family, and to a degree, abstracts the functionality of that hardware feature from the operating system. While this is transparent to the application, the presence of a PAL for an architecture family facilitates the quick adoption of processor variants, improving time-to-market for VxWorks 6.0 customers. Abstractions for MMU, CACHE and large physical addresses are pilots for VxWorks 6.0. Benefits: Faster processor ports within an architecture family give VxWorks 6.0 customers more design options and shorter time to market for new processors Easier application migration across architectures provides better flexibility for product life cycle management Increased systematic testing of common PAL components increases quality File Systems VxWorks 6.0 provides an update to the file system to enhance the capabilities, performance, and reliability of the VxWorks file system. These upgraded capabilities include: Cache write-through option ensures the data is committed to the file system, enhancing reliability CheckDisk improved to utilize the clean bit, allowing the file system to skip CheckDisk for improved boot-up performance Unicode file name support Optional transactional file system layer provides lightweight journaling to ensure 100% reliability The Integrated Development Environment: Wind River Workbench 2.2 Wind River Workbench provides an open, standards-based device software development environment. It enables organizations to standardize their entire device software development process in a common environment that optimizes the effectiveness of engineers, project teams and the enterprise through its unique combination of robust capabilities and end-to-end integration. Wind River Workbench 2.2 for VxWorks 6.0 is the IDE component of Wind River s, VxWorks Edition. It includes the following Wind River Workbench features: Eclipse 3.0 Framework The Eclipse framework provides an open and extensible capability for integrating development tools into development environments. The Eclipse framework is developed and licensed by the Eclipse consortium, its members, and an active community of contributors. The framework provides standard interfaces for graphically and functionally integrating development tools with each other. The use of Eclipse 3.0 as the framework for Wind River Workbench allows VxWorks developers to benefit from the Eclipse-based integration of a wide range of complementary capabilities from commercial software providers and open source developers.

5 Project System The Workbench Project System allows you to organize and manage the primary components in a device software development project. These components include source files and target systems. By design, Workbench enables developers to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Build System The Workbench Build System specifies the tools, options and parameters to use when building device software projects. Using the Build System, you can easily set build parameters at all levels, from project to individual file. It allows for the use of simple global build setting, fine-grained control at the level of an individual file, and everything in between. Editor The Workbench Editor is based on the Eclipse editor framework and includes many performance-enhancing features such as code completion, parameter hinting and syntax highlighting for source files. You can speed the development process and make the editcompile-debug cycle less frustrating and error-prone. Source Code Analyzer The ability to quickly and completely understand code that was written by someone else, or to assess the impact of a change that is being considered is vital to development productivity. This functionality is enabled by the source-code analysis capabilities in Wind River Workbench. Integration of these capabilities into the editing and debugging functions of Workbench speed both code creation and debugging. Debugger The Workbench Debugger provides much more powerful capabilities to developers than basic source-level debuggers such as gdb. The Workbench Debugger has been designed to provide simultaneous, side-by side debugging of software running in multiple contexts. Those contexts may be different tasks, different real-time processes, and even different physical processors. In its default configuration, a software agent that is closely integrated with VxWorks 6.0 provides debugging capabilities. These capabilities can be further extended by the use of Wind River s OCD-based on-chip debugging solutions. In combination these solutions provide the capabilities needed for hardware bring-up, device driver/bsp debugging, and application software debugging. Wind River (Diab) Compiler and Wind River GCC Compiler Workbench for VxWorks 6.0 includes both the Wind River Compiler (formerly known as Diab) and the Wind River-supported GNU Compiler for VxWorks 6.0. The choice of two compilers with complementary characteristics provides extra flexibility to your development team. The GNU Compiler is well established, based on its broad usage and the large amount of existing software built with GNU tools. The Wind River Compiler provides additional, robust capabilities that provide specific value for device software development, especially where resources are constrained. Both compilers are included and supported as part of Wind River Workbench for VxWorks 6.0. System Viewer System Viewer, formerly known as WIND VIEW, provides detailed analysis and graphical visualization of VxWorks 6.0 system events revealing the complex interactions of tasks, interrupts and system objects of an application executing on a target. Context changes are clearly shown as well as system events such as semaphores, message queues, signals, tasks, timers and user events. System Viewer is the best way for developers to diagnose and solve one or more of the following problems: Task scheduling problems such as deadlocks, starvation and race conditions Performance problems such as priority setting, resource contention and mutual exclusion Timing problems arising from the interaction of interrupts and tasks VxWorks Simulator The VxWorks Simulator, formerly known as VxSIM, is a complete prototyping and simulation tool for VxWorks 6.0 applications. It provides the facilities necessary to begin development of your application before hardware becomes available, enabling the development and testing of significant portions of your application earlier in the development cycle. The VxWorks Simulator is fully integrated into Wind River Workbench as a target for execution of VxWorks applications, allowing complete configuration and debugging control through standard interfaces. Host Shell The Host Shell, formerly known as WindSh, provides a command line interface that enables you to download application modules and to invoke both VxWorks 6.0 and application module subroutines. This facility has many uses: Interactive exploration of the VxWorks 6.0 operating system by calling any VxWorks routine and API Interactive exploration of VxWorks 6.0 Real Time Processes (RTPs) Debug and monitor processes s 02

6 s 02 Prototyping New capabilities specifically for VxWorks 6.0 Interactive calling of any application (RTP) routine VxWorks 6.0 Application (RTP) and Kernel testing Error Detection & Reporting support through the output of error dumping and the ability to turn it off on a per-task or per-rtp basis Wind River Message Channels support via the text dump of the message traffic Kernel Shell The VxWorks 6.0 Kernel Shell, formerly known as the Target Shell, runs within the VxWorks 6.0 kernel and provides direct access to VxWorks 6.0 through a console or a network connection such as telnet. The Kernel Shell provides many capabilities similar to the Host shell, directly from the target system. The Kernel Shell is often used when control or visibility into system status are needed outside a development environment. The standard capabilities provided by the Wind River Workbench for VxWorks 6.0, as described above, can be further extended through the addition of the following complementary options: Real-Time Innovations Scope Tools for VxWorks Stethoscope provides the ability to monitor, in real time, any variables or memory locations in your device without adversely impacting your system performance. Stethoscope is useful for monitoring data that can be plotted and waveform analyzed to identify glitches or problems in data behavior. ProfileScope provides a statistical analysis of code execution behavior that is useful in identifying bottlenecks and to clearly identify where cycles are being spent. ProfileScope is a dynamic execution profiler that allows behavioral analysis of code execution that is essential for tuning your devices for maximum performance. MemScope allows you to monitor and correct memory usage within your system over time. Memory leaks can be quickly identified before you run out of available memory. MemScope also allows you to profile your memory usage, allowing you to save money in the deployment of your devices by adjusting the amount of memory required to an appropriate level. TraceScope allows you to trace code execution, in real time, by providing function call sequences as your code executes. Included with the function call displays are the parameters provided as well as the values returned to allow you to identify when function behavior and execution timing changes, and the values that you need to use when performing optimizations. CoverageScope allows you to analyze your code to determine which code segments are executed during testing. Visibility into execution paths allows you to create more thorough test scenarios to ensure delivery of higher quality devices. Furthermore, it becomes easy to identify code that is never executed, allowing you to remove the code to prevent future issues and to reduce your overall memory footprint. Wind River On-Chip Debugging Adding the capabilities provided by Wind River s On-Chip Debugging solutions to Wind River Workbench for VxWorks provides additional debugging capability that is specifically suited to stabilizing the HW platform, and debugging system software such as drivers and board support packages (BSPs). Wind River s OCD solution can also be used in conjunction with VxWorks 6.0 and Workbench 2.2 for application debugging to provide a target debugging connection that enables all tools to communicate to your target system via the OCD port, thus removing the need to have a dedicated serial port or Ethernet port to debug your system Workbench support for Linux Targets You can develop and debug both VxWorks and Linux target applications within a single Workbench session with an optional seat license extension. This extension gives an existing seat of Wind River Workbench, the Workbench Debugger, and the System Viewer the capability to work with both VxWorks 6.0 and Linux target applications. Contact your Wind River sales representative for more information. For a more detailed description of the capabilities of Wind River Workbench for VxWorks please refer to the Wind River Workbench Product Note. Technical Specifications VxWorks 6.0, with: VxWorks 5.5 Compatibility State-of-the-art memory protection Memory Error Management Improved memory management Message Channels Improved POSIX Compliancy Dual mode IPv4/IPv6 Network Stack TrueFFS Flash File System Transactional File System VxMP VxFusion

7 Supported hosts Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Solaris 2.8, 2.9 Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 3.0 Supported target architectures PowerPC Architecture PowerPC 40x PowerPC 44x PowerPC 60x PowerPC 7xx PowerPC 74xx PowerPC 82xx PowerPC 85xx PowerPC 52xx* Intel Architecture Pentium Family MIPS architecture MIPS 5Kx MIPS tx49xx BCM125x *available in a later update Support Visit Wind River Online Support for fast access to product manuals, downloadable software and other problem-solving resources. All products include one year of full support. Additional features, including patches and technical tips for common problems, are available for customers with maintenance agreements. Online support visitors can also access a community of developers to discuss issues and share ideas. If you have difficulty finding your answers online, contact our Customer Support team. North America, South America, Asia/Pacific support@windriver.com toll-free: (800-USA-4WRS) direct: fax: Hours: 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM (pacific time) Japan support-jp@windriver.com direct: fax: Hours: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (local time) Europe, Middle East, Africa support-ec@windriver.com toll-free: +(00)(800) direct: UK +44(0) fax: UK +44(0) France +33(0) France +33(0) Germany +49(0) Germany +49(0) Israel +972(0) Israel +972(0) Hours: 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (local time) Training Training is fundamentally connected to performance, not only at the individual level, but also as it relates to the success of a project or company. Ignoring instructional services translates into longer release schedules, poorer quality and higher costs. The ability to learn, and to convert that learning into practice (performance), creates extraordinary value for individuals, teams and organizations. Wind River offers public workshops, on-site training, and installation and orientation instructional services to make you more productive faster. PUBLIC WORKSHOPS Wind River s public workshops are planned and scheduled for your geographical convenience. They are conducted over one to five days using a lecture and lab classroom format that allows students to leverage the experience of Wind River instructors and their peers. Workshops provide a fast, cost-effective way for students to immediately become more productive. Benefits include: Get a conceptual introduction to orient the student to the subject matter Obtain a selective examination of the details, focusing on areas that are most commonly used or with which users tend to be least familiar Receive personal guidance and hands-on application of individual tools and course concepts Grasp embedded software concepts as well as the fundamental issues in real-time design Acquire the knowledge necessary to develop device drivers, perform hardware porting or develop applications Find answers to specific questions relating to the topics addressed Please consult your local Wind River sales representative for course schedules and fees. s 02

8 s 02 ON-SITE TRAINING If you have a large project team or a number of new users, you may especially bene. t from custom on-site training. Instructors will consult with you and, based on the workshop series curriculum, determine what topics should be included and emphasized. This type of training offers an opportunity for one-on-one discussions with the instructors about a specific project s needs, technical requirements and challenges in the comfort of your own office. Some additional advantages of on-site training include: The entire team is provided with a common knowledge base The training format helps ensure knowledge and skills will transfer from classroom to workplace The on-site location saves employees time away from the office, and saves on expenses associated with travel Please consult your local Wind River sales representative for additional information. INSTALLATION AND ORIENTATION Proper installation and orientation of the Platform means time isn t wasted dealing with problems setting up the development environment. A session is generally conducted over two days and consists of these three primary components. On-site installation: Guided install on customer hardware and host platform, sample build process, demonstrations, examples of customizations Hands-on orientation: Architecture, development. le system, adding open source packages, porting drivers, design issues Advice: Using Wind River support channels, Wind River support processes, additional services, project review and consultation Employing this service will help you expedite your path to productivity assured we have eliminated a common source of user error, and also will help you realize all of the Platform s potential. SERVICE CREDITS This Platform includes 7 Services Credits per subscription seat per year. Customers can use services credits to ensure your product development gets off to a quick start and keeps on schedule. Many customers redeem their service credits by scheduling a Wind Sprint training session but they can also be used to offset the cost of other packaged services quotable from Wind River s price list and custom services with a standard pricing structure. If you have a need for a larger engagement use them to offset some costs within a new services engagement based on an agreed Statement of Work (SOW) and Services contractual agreement Professional Services Getting your teams up to development speed as quickly as possible is part of the device software optimization process. Wind River Professional Services can assist your team in the application, customization and integration of Wind River Workbench and Wind River Platforms. Careful review of system architecture, memory mapping, and even debug I/O provision prior to final PCB layout can give insights that simplify board bring-up. Inclusion of JTAG probing, diagnostics firmware and a flexible bootstrap can help structure board test and integration activities. Careful architecting of peripheral configurations and drivers can have a dramatic effect on the performance and reliability of system I/O functions. The learning curve for this low-level development is steep and correct execution is project-critical. Early small mistakes compound into project issues. Wind River Services can help optimize your project start by: Offering seasoned consultants who can contribute to the hardware review process and offer proven solutions to configuration and debug support issues Including JTAG support and diagnostics to allow initialization of a processor and peripherals on a custom target to a known state without having to create processor/board specific initialization code Providing a custom tailoring of the debugger interface to allow access other peripherals on their boards in a meaningful fashion by creating the necessary files to bring the visibility directly into the debuggers Creating and qualifying custom board support packages for VxWorks and Linux Using Wind River internal reference code and test procedures to help accelerate the schedule Porting and Validation of Wind River Workbench to other Linux versions and processor variants on the customer s hardware Enabling you to use Workbench 2.2 in a non-supported host environment Platform Enabling Wind River can help to ensure consistency, quality and timeliness in the critical area of platform enabling. Our services include: Providing on-site installation and orientation to expedite customer productivity through correct environment setup Offering seasoned consultants who can contribute to the HW review process and offer proven solutions to configuration & debug support issues Including the option of visionice OCD support and visionware diagnostics to the systematic process of board bring-up and validation Bringing to bear an experienced team and proven process to the creation and qualification of a custom BSP

9 Tailoring the scope of a HW/SW integration engagement to meet your project s specific requirements in a predictable timeframe Using Wind River internal reference code and test procedures to help accelerate schedule where possible Porting and validation of Wind River Workbench to the customer s hardware Board Support Packages Our experienced engineering consultants will analyze the hardware and develop an integrated Wind River compliant BSP. The Wind River BSP expert has access to years of BSPs, device drivers, consulting and engineering experts. They develop hundreds of BSPs and drivers per year in custom engagements and work as a team to share know-how and technical tips to improve quality and reduce risk. Drawing on these resources greatly reduces your schedule and implementation risks. Board Bring-up Because Wind River has created many hardware products and continues to develop new products using the latest technologies and components, we can provide considerable experience in getting new designs up and running. Debugger Support If you place other components in memory and would like to be able to access their functionality through the debugger interface, Wind River can help. We can provide you with custom tailoring of the debugger interface to allow you to access other peripherals on your boards in a meaningful fashion. OCD Support The ability to initialize a processor and peripherals on a custom target to a known state without running initialization gives you the capability to troubleshoot your boards and start experimenting with test software without having to create processor/board specific initialization code. There is a well-defined process for doing this with Wind River s OCD debugging solutions. Wind River can create debugger- specific register files that correctly configure the processor and peripherals with the correct values in the correct sequence. These files can then be used by many different parts of the development team throughout the product development cycle. Platform Customization Wind River Platforms are generally not used as initially delivered. For many customers there remains a technology gap between what our standard platforms provide and what our customers ultimately require to get a product to market. Our task is to determine how we can optimize a customer s unique competitive advantage using a Wind River based platform, then tailor it to fill our customer s technology shortfalls. Platform customization includes: Configuring build options for target environment: This involves the enabling and disabling of RTOS functionality based on the hardware capability. Eliminate redundant components: If your company has decided to use components supplied by someone else instead of that supplied by the Platform, this step is important. Add optional base components and functions: In some cases, a Platform may have functions complementary to some of the base level components but not included as part of the chosen Platform. Integrate additional existing Wind River functionality: If Wind River components or protocols your company requires have not been integrated as part of the selected Platform, we can integrate them. 3rd Party Intellectual Property: As has been the case in the past and will continue to be in the future, customers obtain software from multiple suppliers to fulfill a variety of needs in order to create a marketable product. In most cases this will add functionality beyond Wind River s product direction. Customer Intellectual Property: Your company will most likely have existing intellectual property or require the development of new intellectual property in its products. Beyond work pertaining specifically to the Platform, Services has market expertise in a number of areas it can bring to bear for you in this case. Wind River Partner Ecosystem Wind River has developed a comprehensive hardware and software platform-ready ecosystem that extends the capabilities of the. Hardware partners for the platform offer COTS boards, market-specific reference designs and BSPs. Software partner technologies extend the platform to offer solutions that meet the unique needs of device development. Early partner collaboration aligns complementary products that serve the device software market. Early adopters of the General Purpose Platform include: Semiconductor Hardware Middleware Host Tools Broadcom, Freescale, Intel, IBM, MIPS Technologies Artesyn, Dy4, Kontron Modular Computers, Motorola Computer Group, Radstone Technologies, Thales Computers Datalight (NAND Flash Support) Ada Core Technologies, Rational, Real Time Innovations s 02

10 s 02 VxWorks 6.0: what s in the box: Software VxWorks 6.0 binaries VxWorks 6.0 source code VxWorks 6.0 BSPs (binaries and source) for all supported processors Wind River Workbench 2.2 Wind River Compiler v5.2 Wind River GNU Compiler v3.3 for VxWorks Documentation (Partial list) Getting Started Guide Installation Guide Release Notes GPP User s Guide VxWorks 6.0 Reference Guide VxWorks 6.0 Architecture Supplements VxWorks 6.0 BSP Developer s Guide VxWorks Network Stack Wind River Workbench User s Guide Wind River Compiler User s Guide Wind River GNU Compiler User s Guide Other Installation Keys Sheet Software Support and Maintenance Services Agreement Wind Sprint two-day onsite training Service Credits to use with Wind River s Professional Services capabilities FAQ Question: What is VxWorks 6.0? Answer: VxWorks 6.0 is the next generation of Wind River s industry standard real-time operating system (RTOS) found in more than 300 million devices today. It serves as the foundation for Wind River s next-generation VxWorks-based platforms. Question: I m using a Wind River Platform now. How does VxWorks 6.0 affect me? Answer: VxWorks 6.0 and Wind River Workbench form the foundation for the next generation of the Wind River Platform. A key design goal of VxWorks 6.0 is seamless compatibility with existing VxWorks BSPs, drivers and applications. Therefore the migration of Board Support Packages and applications designed for current Wind River Platforms should be straightforward. As part of your current Wind River Platform subscription, you are entitled to a free upgrade to a VxWorks 6.0-based platform. Question: What are the new technology features of VxWorks 6.0? Answer: One of the most important features of VxWorks 6.0 is the seamless migration of BSPs, drivers, and applications from VxWorks 5.5. (See the migration questions below.) VxWorks 6.0 also offers many new technology features, including: State-of-the-art memory protection Memory error detection and reporting capabilities UNIX-like process-based programming model User-mode execution, augmenting VxWorks traditional kernel-mode execution Message Channels inter-process communication Dual IPv4 / IPv6 network stack Question: How will VxWorks 6.0 fit into my current environment? Answer: VxWorks 6.0 installs into its own directory structure in parallel to any existing VxWorks development environment. Existing VxWorks projects can be imported in a straightforward manner into the new Wind River Workbench. Workbench is Wind River s Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment. Question: What about VxWorks AE? Answer: VxWorks AE will continue to be the foundation for the Platform for Safety Critical and Platform for Safety Critical ARINC653 products, intended for the Safe and Secure and aerospace and defense markets. Question: How easy is it to migrate applications from VxWorks 5.5 to VxWorks 6.0? Answer: The default configuration of VxWorks 6.0 is a nearly identical environment to that of VxWorks 5.5. This means that existing VxWorks 5.5 BSPs, drivers and applications will work in the VxWorks 6.0 kernel with only a recompile required. Question: Does Wind River Workbench replace Tornado? Answer: Yes. Question: How do customers migrate from Tornado and SNiFF+ to Wind River Workbench? Answer: Wind River provides tools and documentation to help customers migrate from Tornado and SNiFF+ to Wind River Workbench. In most cases, customers will be able to automatically import existing projects and workspaces and transfer their builds and kernel configurations. In cases where an automated import is not 100 percent feasible, migration documentation will explain how to best map Tornado and SNiFF+ concepts to Wind River Workbench. Question: Does VxWorks 6.0 support MMU-less processors? Answer: Yes. For processors with an MMU, it also supports the option to turn off the MMU for performance considerations.