Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: WindML and JWorks PersonalJava
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 September 2002
Upgrades boost interactive
digital TV development
Wind River Systems has released the next generations of its WindML embedded multimedia graphics package and JWorks PersonalJava operating environment software
WindML and JWorks PersonalJava are fundamental building blocks for interactive digital television (iDTV) products. Combined with Wind River's market-leading VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), Tornado development tools, networking software and hardware bring-up tools, iDTV manufacturers are able to rapidly develop integrated digital TVs and set-top boxes.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 September 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Despite the current downturn in consumer spending, analysts predict considerable growth for the iDTV market.
"The digital television market is expected to reach 225.8 million households by the end of 2006, an approximate increase of 128 percent from today", said Alison Bogle, Research Analyst, Intex Management Services (IMS Research).
"Wind River's operating systems have been more frequently utilised by the major set-top box manufacturers than any other type of set-top box operating system, with nearly 50% market share.
Companies in this market with feature-rich and reliable enabling technology and are well poised to benefit from this market upturn".
The introduction of Wind River's enhanced WindML and JWorks iDTV products offer customers innovative new features including a compact and efficient graphics library and Java AWT stack, higher performing Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and seamless user interface interoperability between non-Java and Java applications.
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It's a bold claim, but Wind River describes its latest offering as the device software optimisation (DSO) industry's most comprehensive advanced networking technology portfolio
"These latest enhancements to key components of our iDTV development solution provide customers with the most comprehensive and reliable iDTV platform in the industry", said Joerg Bertholdt, director of marketing for Wind River's Digital Consumer group.
"By freeing consumer electronics manufacturers from the concerns and complexities of developing interoperable embedded systems, they can focus their engineering talent on keeping ahead of the competition with continuous product enhancements".
Wind River's iDTV development solution enables manufacturers and service providers to deliver exciting new iDTV applications for the open Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) standard.
The MHP standard links the broadcasting and Internet worlds together by enabling digital content providers to address all types of terminals ranging from low-end to high-end set top boxes, integrated digital TV sets and multimedia PCs.
Through MHP, enhanced broadcasts, interactive broadcasts and Internet content from different providers can be accessed through a single device.
Wind River's complete hardware/software solution provides integrated building blocks for virtually every step of iDTV development, ensuring that engineering teams can rapidly develop and deploy their iDTV products.
VxWorks board support packages (BSP) are available for the leading iDTV segment-specific semiconductor development boards, ensuring quick time-to-productivity.
Wind River's Tornado integrated development environment and visionICE II on-chip-debug emulator enables BSPs to be modified with additional device drivers implemented, downloaded, and debugged for custom hardware.
In addition, the hardware development team can use the visionICE II emulator for base product validation.
And finally, runtime software including the VxWorks RTOS, WindML graphics package, and JWorks Java operating environment serve as the ideal foundation for software application development.
WindML 3.0 will be available this fiscal quarter and JWorks 4.1 will be available later this year.
Both products, as well as Tornado 2.2, VxWorks 5.5, and visionICE II will be available for the MIPS, PowerPC, Hitachi SuperH, ARM, Intel XScale and IA32 architectures.
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