VxWorks to add imaging features
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By Margaret Quan
EE Times
(12/15/98, 12:12 p.m. EDT)
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Wind River Systems Inc. is working with digital
imaging original equipment manufacturers to develop features for its
VxWorks real-time operating system and Tornado development environment
that address the needs of digital imaging OEMs, the company said.
The features will be available for VxWorks within the next year, according to
Sayeed Choudhury, Wind River Systems director of market development for
digital imaging.
Although Wind River declined to provide specifics, the company said it is
considering incorporating technologies like those of its component-supplier
partners, such as Adobe's PostScript page-description language, HP's
Jetsend autonegotiation protocol for communication between devices and
Novell's NDPS (Novell Distributed Printing System), which
embeds intelligence in a printer so it can coordinate functions and handle
network management.
In terms of recent design wins, Minolta announced plans to have Tornado
and VxWorks embedded in its next-generation digital-imaging equipment,
Wind River said.
Digital imaging is the fastest-growing market for the company, according to
Choudhury, who said the market segment represented 17 to 18 percent of
Wind River System's $92.4 million revenue in fiscal year 1998. |
