Wind River Systems and Xionics
Announce Embedded Digital Imaging
Solutions for Tornado and VxWorks
ALAMEDA, Calif. & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)-- April 13, 1999--
IPS/2000 Version 3 For Tornado Accelerates Development of
Leading Edge Peripherals Required for
Today's Internet Connected Office
Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - news) and Xionics Document Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:XION - news) today announced IPS/2000 Version 3 for Tornado(tm), a complete integrated imaging solution for printers and multifunction peripherals (MFPs). OEM customers can
now speed their time to market by leveraging the IPS/2000 imaging environment ported to the VxWorks(r) embedded operating system.
''With today's announcement, Xionics now supports the leading development tools and operating system platform for printing peripherals,'' said Pete Simone, president and CEO of Xionics
Document Technologies. ''This is another in a series of announcements about Xionics' leading-edge development solutions to provide imaging for the 'connected office' of today.''
IPS/2000 and VxWorks are already the market-leading solutions used by most OEMs developing hard-copy print devices, such as printers, MFPs, and digital copiers. Integrating IPS/2000 Version 3 on top of VxWorks 5.3 greatly simplifies an OEMs development effort by providing a complete robust and tested solution, while allowing the development team to leverage the Tornado development tools. Both factors lead to a quicker time to market for the OEM development team.
''By porting IPS/2000 to VxWorks, Xionics is providing an open architecture and support for a range of industry standards that will make it easier for their customers to design efficient systems and
quickly migrate designs across different microprocessor families,'' said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing for Wind River Systems. ''OEMs eager to save development time and resources and
ensure the highest quality and performance in their devices will benefit from a solution that combines Tornado, VxWorks, and Xionics IPS/2000.''
About IPS/2000
IPS/2000 provides the encompassing imaging environment architecture and subsystems, such as print, copy, scan and fax as well as Internet and other communications protocols. The IPS/2000 system, which has been licensed to over 40 OEMs representing 80% of the printing peripheral market, enables OEMs to build families of peripheral products from one platform architecture. Xionics has leveraged its expertise to ensure IPS/2000 remains the leading architecture for the
peripherals industry by adding support for major technology platforms and interfaces. Recent enhancements include Xionics PS3(tm) (PostScript(r) 3 solution), font technology from Agfa-Gevaert and Bitstream, and network connectivity from NETsilicon's DPI Imaging division, formerly known as Digital Product Inc., among others.
About Tornado and VxWorks
The Tornado development environment and the VxWorks real-time operating system are the leading core platform for digital imaging devices. OEMs can utilize the reliable and scalable system
architecture of VxWorks, in combination with optional modules such as Wind Web Server(tm) and Personal JWorks(tm) to internet-enable printers and MFPs. Developers can harness the power of the Tornado development environment to design and reuse code across a variety of product lines. Teams can also leverage a variety of other development tools to speed product development time. For more information on Wind River products, please go to www.wrs.com.
Availability
IPS/2000 Version 3 for Tornado is available now directly from Xionics. Please contact Xionics at (781) 229-7000 or go to www.xionics.com for more information.
About Xionics
Xionics is a leading developer of innovative software and silicon for printing, scanning, copying, processing and transmitting documents to computer peripherals. Xionics partners with the industry's
leading OEMs, including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, QMS, Ricoh, Samsung, GCC, Seiko Epson, Sharp, and Xerox, to develop peripherals that provide the performance, output quality and network connectivity for today's office computing market. The company's corporate headquarters is based in Burlington, Mass., with offices in Japan and Germany. For more information on Xionics and its products, visit the company on the World Wide Web at xionics.com.
About Wind River Systems Inc.
Wind River Systems, Inc. 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, Calif., with operations in the U.K., France,
Germany, Sweden, Italy, Israel, Korea, and Japan, and representation worldwide. Wind River reported revenues of $129.4 million in fiscal 1999, a 40 percent increase from fiscal 1998.
Xionics is a registered trademark and IPS/2000 is a trademark of Xionics Document Technologies, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries. Tornado is a trademark and VxWorks, Wind River Systems and the
Wind River Systems logo are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated, which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact:
Xionics Document Technologies, Inc.
Jim Welch, (781) 229-7082
jwelch@xionics.com
or
Bridgeman Communications
Dan Dent, (617) 742-7270
dan@bridgeman.com
or
Wind River Systems
Tabitha Steager, (510) 749-2470
tabitha@wrs.com
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