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HP Alliance With Wind River to Provide "Best-of-Class" Development Environment
Business Wire ~ October 30, 1998 ~ 7:17 am EST
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 1998-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with Wind River Systems by joining Wind River's WindLink partner program as a Premier member. HP will support Wind River's Tornado development environment with HP 16600A/16700A series logic analyzers.
"By connecting HP logic-analysis systems to the Tornado tool framework, hardware designers and software developers now have a best-of-class development and debug environment," said Patrick J. Byrne, general manager of HP's Colorado Springs Division. "Many of our customers are VxWorks users, so it makes perfect sense for us to combine our industry-leading logic analyzers with Wind River's premier, real-time operating system to help designers bring products to market faster."
Simultaneous Multitool Access
The new alliance means that all designers on a project team will have simultaneous access to HP embedded debug tools within the Wind River Tornado environment, as well as to development tools from other leading vendors. Each team member will have the tools needed to complete their portion of the project on time, reducing project costs and delivering high-quality products to the marketplace.
"We are extremely pleased that HP is supporting its robust logic analyzers with the award-winning Tornado development environment," said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing at Wind River Systems. "With innovative partners such as HP, we can enable our customers to develop and build comprehensive embedded technology solutions from end to end."
The first HP products slated to offer direct connections to Wind River's Tornado environment will be HP's emulation probes and modules for the PowerPC and Motorola MPC families of microprocessors.
Tornado is the only complete software cross-development environment for embedded systems. It is available for UNIX(R) system, Windows(R) 95 and Windows NT(R) host platforms and more than 20 target processor families.
Tornado is seamlessly integrated into a target platform to provide the industry's most powerful development tools within VxWorks -- a feature-rich, high-performance and scalable real-time operating system. Completely open in its design and easy to customize, Tornado facilitates the use of numerous third- party and customer-developed tools to enhance its capabilities and meet unique requirements.
Wind River Systems has more than 200 software and hardware partners. Its Tornado environment is used by thousands of developers worldwide.
About Wind River Systems, Inc.
Wind River Systems, Inc., an ISO 9001 registered company, is the leading provider of integrated software development tools for real-time embedded applications in the Internet, telecommunications, data communications, office automation, networking, computer peripherals, medical, automotive, industrial, aerospace and multimedia markets. Through the industry's most comprehensive product line and customer support, Wind River enables customers to develop and reuse application software across a variety of products and platforms, shortening development cycles and improving time-to-market. Incorporated in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California with representation worldwide. Wind River reported revenues of $92.4 million in fiscal year 1998, a 44% increase from fiscal year 1997.
About HP
Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 127,200 employees and had revenue of $42.9 billion in its 1997 fiscal year.
Information about HP logic analyzers is online at hp.com logicanalyzer.
Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Windows and Windows NT are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Company
Jeanne Cotter, 719/590-3265
jeanne_cotter@hp.com
John E. Lucas, 408/553-7089
john_lucas@hp.com
or
Wind River Systems
Gretchen Maddox, 510/749-2396
gretchen@wrs.com
wrs.com
07:02 EST OCTOBER 30, 1998
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