ALAMEDA,
CA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - January 29, 2008
– Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the
global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), and Cavium
Networks (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products, today announced the immediate availability
of their advanced multicore device development solution. The
solution couples Wind River’s Workbench On-Chip Debugging
and Wind River Compiler with Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore
processors, providing customers with a simplified development
environment encompassing a complete development ecosystem,
on-chip debugging tools, compilers, support and knowledge.
Further, hardware and software developers will benefit from
improved productivity and user experience when developing
on cutting-edge multicore offerings, enabling customers to
get higher-quality products working and delivered in less
time and with fewer errors.
Multicore technology delivers significant advantages to
device developers by providing higher processor performance,
more effective power usage and a smaller physical footprint
for embedded devices. However, multicore technology also
requires new tools and a new approach to development that
enables hardware and software developers to debug multiple
cores simultaneously, while optimizing the development process
through the use of integrated tools. Features and capabilities
of Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging and the Wind River
Compiler are specifically targeted for sophisticated multicore
silicon like Cavium Networks 16-core OCTEON multicore MIPS64®
processors. The solution will help customers to:
- Quickly bring up the Cavium Networks OCTEON hardware
and debug interactions between the hardware and software
running across multiple cores
- Develop application software, including multi-threaded
applications, in a seamless manner
- Accurately synchronize start and stop of multiple cores
in order to determine problem areas
- Utilize On-Chip Debugging’s unique System Mode
debugging capabilities to view software activities on
all cores at a given point in time in order to analyze
the interaction of software running on multiple cores
- Maximize JTAG bandwidth for multicore debug with Wind
River’s JTAG accelerator technology to help speed
the development and analysis processes
- Benefit from a scalable solution supporting debugging
on scan chains with up to 128 cores
- Streamline development across multiple homogeneous
and heterogeneous cores, including those with different
instruction sets
- Use Wind River Compiler to generate optimized application
code for OCTEON
"The successful deployment of multicore solutions
requires not only advanced hardware and software designed
specifically for multicore, but the development tools to
troubleshoot problems early. We applaud the efforts of Wind
River and Cavium Networks for developing solutions that
will enable quicker and more effective debugging of multicore
processors," said Jorge Magalhaes, vice president of
marketing, Emerson Network Power. "This collaboration
shows how members of the ecosystem can work together to
bring valuable and powerful solutions to the marketplace."
"We have worked closely with Cavium Networks to provide
a complete multicore debugging solution that supports the
entire debug lifecycle from hardware bring-up through application
development with Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging
Edition," said Sandy Orlando, Vice President and General
Manager of Wind River On-Chip Debugging. "We are proud
to be endorsed by Cavium Networks for multicore debugging
and take great pride in our technology leadership in JTAG
based multicore debug. With our solution, Wind River supports
a wide variety of environments for very sophisticated and
high performance multicore processors."
"The Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore MIPS64®
processors are delivering industry-leading performance for
a wide range of embedded networking, wireless and storage
applications," said Rajiv Khemani, Vice President of
Marketing and Sales, Cavium Networks. "Partnering with
Wind River, an industry and technology leader for multicore
development tools helps reduce the development time and
accelerate time to revenue for our customers. Wind River's
On-Chip Debugging provides comprehensive and powerful multicore
development capabilities that enable our joint customers
to reduce development costs and produce higher quality products."
Availability
The Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging solution for
OCTEON is available today under Wind River's Enterprise
and Perpetual Licensing Business Models. There are various
hardware, software and bundle options available to the customer
so that Wind River can provide a solution that best meets
the needs of our end customer. To learn more, please contact
your local Wind River sales contact, write to inquiries@windriver.com
or visit http://www.windriver.com/products/OCD/workbench_OCD/.
For more information on Cavium Networks OCTEON processor
family, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com.
About Wind River
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, visit
Wind River at www.windriver.com
or call 1-800-872-4977.
About Cavium Networks
Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated
semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing
in networking, communications, and storage and security
applications. Cavium Networks offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance
from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent
functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer
and access & service provider equipment. Cavium Networks
processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide
operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other
services. Cavium Networks principal offices are in Mountain
View, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts
and India. For more information, please visit: http://www.caviumnetworks.com.
Wind River Contact:
Ashish Patel
Bite Communications for Wind River
Telephone: 415-365-0466
Email: Ashish.Patel@bitepr.com
Cavium Networks Contact:
Angel Atondo
Marketing Manager
Cavium Networks
805 East Middlefield Road,
Mountain View, CA 94043
Telephone: 650-623-7033
Email: angel.atondo@caviumnetworks.com
