ALAMEDA, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Setting a new standard within
the embedded systems industry, Wind River Systems (NASDAQ:WIND) today
announced the upgrade of its revolutionary diagnostic tool, WindView 2.0. Now
more open, flexible and powerful, WindView 2.0 enables the essential
visualization and analysis of performance and timing issues in today's
increasingly complex embedded software. WindView can dramatically shorten the
development cycle for embedded products in the digital imaging, global
communication and consumer electronic markets.
Before the introduction of WindView, embedded software developers could
spend weeks or months debugging a section of code by stepping through each
line to find a programming error that would lead to timing or performance
problems. There was no way to verify the code's dynamic behavior. WindView
eliminated this problem and for the first time enabled developers to actually
see how their code performed. WindView 2.0 improves upon this success and
offers even more detailed analysis capabilities to help developers optimize
their software.
"While maintaining the feature-rich functionality offered in our earlier
release, we are again changing the playing field with intelligent innovation
and enhancements. WindView laid the groundwork and has been so successful that
we sell a WindView license with almost every order for our Tornado(TM)
development environment," said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing for
Wind River Systems. "WindView 2.0 improves upon this success by again meeting
our customer's continuously evolving and complex debugging and analysis
requirements."
Deep Analysis and Greater Flexibility
WindView 2.0 is a diagnostic and analysis tool that provides detailed
visibility into the dynamic operation of an embedded system. Using it, a
developer can quickly and easily visualize the complicated interaction among
tasks, interrupt service routines, and system objects in an application. This
information is presented and can be manipulated through a state-of-the-art
Windows graphical user interface (GUI).
Triggering, a new VxWorks(R) feature that is being introduced with
WindView 2.0, makes possible the capture of a smaller event log; by assigning
actions to specific operating systems events developers can secure a concise
log of relevant events. New deep analysis capabilities in WindView 2.0 include
the addition of open Tcl and C++ application programming interfaces (APIs) to
WindView 2.0's event log and the ability to create graphical, statistical
analyses using the new event log overlay or by connecting directly to an Excel
spreadsheet program on the host system via COM. A new target server file
system enables WindView 2.0 to be used anywhere Tornado is used, regardless of
the host target connection strategy. WindView 2.0 can communicate with a
target over serial, Ethernet, NetROM, or custom backend connections.
WindView 2.0 also enables developers to make optimum use of target memory
with more efficient dynamically configurable buffers. These buffers can
"squeeze" into the corners of available memory, thus alleviating the need for
large contiguous sections of target memory. WindView 2.0 offers basic support
for analyzing output from multiple processors that are synchronized to the
same time base.
"These new enhancements give Wind River customers one of the most
competitive development solutions in the market today," Schacker continued.
"WindView 2.0 enables real-time problems to literally reveal themselves. With
the essential visualization of performance and timing issues, no one
developing multi-thread applications really should be without it."
Availability
WindView 2.0 will be available in the second quarter of 1998. Wind River
has designed a smooth migration path from WindView 1.0 to WindView 2.0. to
offer a seamless integration into Tornado's high-performance embedded
environments. Wind River will offer a comprehensive demonstration of WindView
2.0, at booth #811 at the Embedded Systems Conference East in Chicago,
March 31 - April 2, 1998. |
