Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: VisionProbe II
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 October 2003
Hardware assisted tool
support for Linux
VisionProbe II gives developers the ability to track Linux virtual access and to control their physical peripherals and memory
Wind River Systems is extending its industry leading hardware bring-up tools to include support for Linux. Customers can turn to Wind River for leading-edge run control and debugging tools that work with Wind River Platforms, VxWorks and embedded Linux. VisionProbe II is immediately available for the IBM PowerPC 405 family.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 October 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Wind River's decision to support both VxWorks and Linux through its stand-alone tools business is a strategic move for the company", said Paul Zorfass, Senior Analyst with International Data Corporation/FTI.
"With the Embedded Linux tools market still in its early stage and evolving, Wind River's Linux tools offering is a welcome and an innovative response to broaden the capabilities of Linux developers.
By expanding its comprehensive embedded developer tools solutions further, Wind River is reaffirming its responsiveness to the developer community and its position as an industry leader".
Unlike existing embedded Linux hardware products available today, Wind River's hardware bring-up tools provide embedded developers who choose the Linux kernel with technology innovations that solve their specific bring-up needs.
By providing visibility and access to both the virtual and the physical address space, VisionProbe II gives developers the ability to track Linux virtual access and to control their physical peripherals and memory.
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Additionally, with its automated boot line feature, the Wind River solution allows developers to run their Linux kernel on their target processor prior to a boot loader being available.
"Wind River's decision to extend tools support to the Linux operating system is in response to our customers and to a true market need", said Dave Fraser, Senior Vice President, Products, for Wind River.
"We have a significant standalone tools business and although our customers can use the products with any technology, we like to focus additional functionality on the biggest operating systems.
Linux is now very popular in embedded, but it is quite immature and challenging in the area of tools - particularly for customers bringing up and debugging on custom hardware".
Wind River's hardware run control and debugger products provide robust development and test tool solutions used for hardware bring-up and debugging.
These tools provide the most feature-rich capabilities for board bring-up, flash programming, and production/test in the industry today.
Wind River's hardware assisted tools features include: system-level debugging of the target processor; JTAG capabilities; kernel-level debugging; support for breakpoints in virtual memory; and an automated boot line that provides ability to run kernel on the target without having a boot loader image installed.
"With this solution, our customers are able to use the operating system of their choice, and still have access to a leading-edge embedded toolset", said Lisa Su, Director of PowerPC and Emerging Products, IBM Microelectronics.
"IBM and Wind River are working together to provide solutions that best fit the needs of the embedded marketplace".
Initial host operating system support will be for Microsoft Windows.
Wind River's Linux debugging solution will be available on the Wind Power ICE product and on the Linux host operating system in future releases.
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