ALAMEDA, Calif., Feb. 5, 2010 — Wind River, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, today announced it will
add the Virtutech product line to its embedded software product
portfolio after the completion of Intel Corporation's acquisition of
Virtutech signed earlier this week. Virtutech, founded in 1998, is based
in San Jose, Calif. and operates a development center in Stockholm,
Sweden.
Wind River will sell and support Virtutech's flagship development
platform, Simics, as a stand-alone product and will continue to support
all current architectures including ARM, Intel, MIPS and PowerPC. Simics
will allow Wind River to offer a market-leading virtual systems
development solution in a growing market segment of virtualization and
simulation tools for device software development.
"The addition of Virtutech's development platforms to our product
line will allow Wind River to offer greater value to customers across
the entire product lifecycle and deepen current relationships with our
broad set of silicon partners," said Ken Klein, president, Wind River.
"Time-to-market remains the single most challenging issue that
sophisticated electronic equipment manufacturers need to address and
ultimately control in order to remain competitive. With the addition of
the Simics products, Wind River adds a key solution to further help
customers improve time-to-market, as system complexity and ever more
stringent demands upon overall system quality rapidly increase."
"Through our long-standing partnership with Wind River, it became
evident that both companies shared a vision of how we can help the
electronic systems market rethink how it goes about complex product
development by deploying virtual platforms," said John Lambert, CEO,
Virtutech. "Time and again, Virtutech has helped customers and partners
improve time-to-market by enabling the full sweep of systems development
activities to take place on a virtual platform, freeing them up to
apply new and innovative ways of running systems development projects.
By combining with Wind River, we now have the opportunity to
dramatically accelerate the spread of this key market trend and to bring
the benefits of virtual platforms to a broader audience."
Simics provides binary-compatible hardware simulations that
operate completely within a virtualized environment running on standard
laptop or desktop PCs. This strategy allows OEMs to undertake critical
software development activities on a virtual platform, independently of
any hardware development schedules, semiconductor availability
constraints or other limitations. This also allows semiconductor
manufacturers to redefine complex system-on-chip development with
greater ecosystem support and customer engagement. Virtutech therefore
enables customers to manage complexity, drive improved quality and
achieve higher productivity, all while lowering capital expenditure and
shortening total development time.
Acquired by Intel last year, Wind River develops operating
systems, middleware (software found between an OS and software
application), and software design tools for a variety of embedded
computing systems. Its main products include VxWorks, the market-leading
proprietary and multicore-ready real-time operating system, and
commercial-grade Linux software platforms. The company also provides
design services and software expertise, including custom-built
solutions, development tools and device testing products. With thousands
of customers, Wind River technology is relied upon by most major
computer and networking communications companies, and is used by
corporations and government agencies such as Alcatel-Lucent, BMW,
Boeing, Bombardier Transportation, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NASA, Sony,
Verizon and many more.
Intel's acquisition of privately-held Virtutech is expected to be
completed this quarter. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. |
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About Virtutech Virtutech, Inc. is the leader in
product development process improvement through virtualized systems
development (VSD). Virtutech Simics® allows for a revolutionary change
in the product development process at a full system level rather than a
component level and is a commercial solution that uniquely delivers the
four most important criteria for successful deployment of hardware
virtualization in the electronics equipment development process: speed,
scalability, model availability, and control. Simics customers report
reduced time to market, better project risk management, lower capital
expenditure, product development cost and maintenance as well as
increased quality and individual productivity. Virtutech serves the
needs of the world's leading OEMs in the high-performance computing,
aerospace and defense, telecommunications, networking and semiconductor
industries. Customers include Cisco, Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor,
GE Avionics, Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Nortel and Northrop
Grumman. Virtutech is an active participant in organizations to drive
adoption of VSD such as ARM Connected Community, Eclipse.org, IBM
PartnerWorld, Multicore Association, Power.org, OSCI and Spirit
Consortium. For more information, visit www.virtutech.com. |