News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 April 2003
Embedded platform targets in-car telematics
The Wind River Platform for Car Infotainment is a market-specific integrated embedded platform that serves as the software foundation for developing car infotainment and telematics devices.
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The Wind River Platform for Car Infotainment (Platform CI) is a market-specific integrated embedded platform that serves as the software foundation for developing car infotainment and telematics devices. Using Platform CI, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can standardise on a single, market-specific integrated embedded platform across product lines, reducing their engineering costs and speeding development cycles. The Telematics Research Group predicts there will be more than 105 million telematics-enabled automobiles on the roads worldwide between 2006-2010.
To support the multitude of services that can be provided to the driver and passengers and ensure an affordable device cost, car infotainment and telematics device developers must use a proven and integrated software.
By standardising on a software platform like Platform CI, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can effectively eliminate baseline development concerns and focus on their core business of developing new, innovative and affordable devices.
Platform CI offers OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers an automotive market-specific embedded platform that pre-integrates the industry's most reliable real-time operating system (RTOS), Wind River's VxWorks, with development tools, multimedia APIs and connectivity protocols.
Using Platform CI, manufacturers have all the foundation to develop highly reliable car infotainment products.
Platform CI relies on the support of the VxWorks RTOS, embedded development tools and hardware bring-up tools for leading car infotainment processors and companion chipsets.
Platform CI provides drivers and protocols for devices connected to other in-vehicle devices, consumer electronics devices and the network infrastructure.
Support such as CAN, MOST, USB, 802.11 is included.
Platform CI includes Wind ML (Wind River multimedia library), which provides support for graphical user interfaces and multimedia functionality.
Platform CI includes credits that can be applied to services and training offerings in a flexible way.
Platform CI also features a customisable Wind Sprint installation and orientation service - a two-day programme at the customer's site designed to help accelerate project startup and provide a context-specific introduction to Platform CI.
To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has partnered with leading companies to address technology areas such as OSGi, speech recognition and synthesis, IDB-1394 networking, Bluetooth, browser and email technologies.
Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici, a global leader in the design and production of high-tech components and systems for the automotive industry, has worked with Wind River for more than five years on different iterations of its car-infotainment systems.
"The introduction of Wind River Platform for Car Infotainment proves to Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici that Wind River is a true collaborative partner for the automotive industry", said Antonino Damiano, Telematics Design Manager, Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici.
"We are impressed that Wind River has listened and taken on board the design challenges Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici has faced to build a software solution that anticipates our future development needs for taking to market innovations in car-infotainment quickly and at the right cost.
By providing a completely pre-integrated development environment built specifically for the automotive industry with extensive source code and service credits, Wind River Platform for Car Infotainment, is a winning idea".
"With the burgeoning consumer demand for vehicle services and functionality, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers developing car infotainment devices face an increasingly competitive market and a myriad of development challenges associated with increased device complexity", said Tony Tryba, Vice President and General Manager, Automotive, Industrial, Defence and Aerospace for Wind River.
"By standardising on Wind River Platform for Car Infotainment, OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers can rely on proven integrated technologies and automotive expertise allowing their developers to focus on their competitive value added technologies in order to satisfy consumer demand".
Platform CI adds to the growing number of market-specific integrated embedded platforms from Wind River, the first six of which are currently available.
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