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To: bythepark who wrote (22836)	4/16/2000 10:25:00 AM
From: the hube	Respond to of 54805

Alan:you & the more tech savvy thread members I certainly wouldn't put myself in the group of the more tech savvy members. I would guess that anything using an ARM core would be a candidate for the clone. Again, I really like the wording of the release The pT-100 and pT-110 have been thoroughly tested and validated in silicon and with all major Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) such as Wind River VxWorks(TM) and Integrated Systems' pSOS(TM). According to Leo Jiang, Manager of Systems Integration for picoTurbo, ``We have tested our products with all of the major vendors and have yet to find a problem. The work is on going and we are testing and validating new RTOS and applications on a scheduled basis. Again, the gorilla is first, and the only one mentioned by name. I would be surprised if picoTurbo didn't pay for the port to VxWorks/pSOS, and that they are making most of the other rtos vendors pay for their own ports. Note that this is pure speculation on my part, however, I remember about a year ago reading that WIND rarely paid for a port to VxWorks; instead, it was a profit center for them.

To: bythepark who wrote (22836)	4/16/2000 11:18:00 AM
From: the hube	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

WIND and the automotive market Electronic controls to replace camshafts in diesel engines eet.com Is there Wind inside here as well? International is using the electrohydraulic valve to control movement of its engines' valves and fuel injectors. Control for both systems is currently provided by a Siemens electronics module containing two Infineon 167 microprocessors. The Infineon processors, which operate at 24 MHz, use a reduced instruction set (RISC) and a sophisticated interrupt structure to enable real-time operation. "In an automotive environment, you have to have real-time operation," said Kregg Wiggins, director of powertrain electronics for Siemens Automotive North America (Auburn Hills, Mich.). "Unlike a PC, everything has to happen in real-time here, because if your fuel injector fires a half-second late, you'll notice it." Siemens/Infineon is listed in Wind's automotive page as a customer and the C16x processor is listed under the examples of supported by Wind's automotive division. windriver.com The automotive electronic systems industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, forecasted to grow to $91.4 billion by the year 2002 (Strategy Analyst Market Report). In a recent conference call, Wind management stated that of all of the car navigation systems they were aware of, only 2 did not run on Wind's products. Sure looks like another bowling pin to me.