Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Tornado for Car Infotainment
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 October 2001
Development for in-car embedded systems
Tornado for Car Infotainment is a development platform for devices such as navigation systems, global positioning systems, car entertainment systems and wireless automotive devices
Wind River has released Tornado for Car Infotainment, a complete development platform for creating car infotainment and telematics devices such as in car navigation systems, global positioning systems, car entertainment systems and wireless automotive devices. Tornado for Car Infotainment provides a preintegrated software development solution that combines Wind River's leading embedded software with the latest automotive connectivity and wireless networking protocols.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 October 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, Wind River partners provide integrated solutions in the area of voice recognition, browser service delivery management, and complementary networking-giving developers all the necessary tools they need to quickly build competitive, reliable, and cost-effective car infotainment and telematics devices.
"In less than ten years, there will be over 150 million telematics-enabled vehicles on the road, forming a telematics network that is ripe for services and applications", said Phil Magney, principal analyst, Telematics Research Group.
"Wind River's development platform has the potential to help facilitate this growth".
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"We have been using Tornado and VxWorks for our car information systems successfully for several years", said Dr Erich Geiger, CEO of Harman/Becker Automotive Systems.
"As we are facing demands for greater product functionality, Tornado for Car Infotainment is clearly the solution that will help us achieve time to market with more advanced products.
In addition, this clearly demonstrates Wind River's understanding of the automotive developer requirements and their commitment to this market".
With the growing requirement to be connected to the outside world, protected, productive and entertained while in a car, there is an increasing demand for telematics and infotainment devices in today's automotive electronics industry.
"The challenge for OEMs and tier one suppliers alike, is to provide competitive, flexible, scalable and reliable in-car telematics applications that incorporate emerging industry standards and meet tightening development cycles, while still remaining cost effective", said Scot Morrison, vice president and general manager of Wind River's Automotive and Industrial business unit.
"Wind River is introducing Tornado for Car Infotainment to give them all the necessary preintegrated tools and components to shift the focus from integration and testing of enabling technologies to their value-added application software".
Tornado for Car Infotainment will be available during the first quarter of 2002.
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