Why Wind River
Wind River is leading the industry consortia that are driving the next wave of open source, market-based solutions for mobile handsets and mobile Internet devices (MIDs). With a market approach that deftly combines open source with the assurance and backing of commercial products, only Wind River can deliver the software and services that will drive innovation for your next product, no matter which open source platform you select.
Solutions
Wind River offers commercial solutions comprising product, services, and partner contributions for leading open mobile software platforms. Our approach is to preselect key partners, in both software and hardware, and carefully integrate and optimize their solutions to form a reference design capable of cutting significant time from your development schedule.
Services
Wind River has a complete suite of customization, integration, and optimization services to assist you in every aspect of developing your software solution. Our software systems integration services offer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs) end-to-end integrator services for your mobile device project.
Partners
Wind River has preintegrated and prevalidated solutions from leading mobile hardware and software providers to jump-start your next device development project. We've taken the hardest part of mobile device development and applied our expertise to improve quality and allow your team to focus on more value-added development activities.
Standards
Wind River supports existing mobile industry and adjacent industry standards in addition to newly emerging and market-based de facto standards to maintain compatibility with open source technologies and ensure your device can be quickly certified and shipped.
Mobile Solutions
Wind River, the leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), helps reduce and manage the complexity of Linux for the mobile handset industry through our comprehensive solution: Wind River Linux and implementations for leading mobile consortia, including Moblin and the Open Handset Alliance.
Wind River offers mobile handset OEMs a robust, standards-based platform for device software development across their product lines. Our Eclipse-based development suite can seamlessly integrate hundreds of plug-ins from diverse sources to optimize code reuse and apply standards across projects, teams, and sites. Wind River Linux delivers a pristine source layered through a transparent build system, improving developer productivity by enhancing package management. In partnership with leading silicon and board vendors, Wind River offers reference designs to make hardware choice and board bring-up faster and easier.
The platform includes the following:
- A tightly integrated, Eclipse-based development suite serving the full device software development life cycle
- A single, fully extensible Linux run-time distribution for both smartphones and MIDs
- Global support delivered locally
- A professional services practice specializing in software systems integration services for mobile devices to ensure that you meet your market window
Services
Mobile Handset Services Practice
Wind River's mobile DSO solutions are augmented by mobile- and Linux-savvy services engineers, building on the collective expertise of Wind River Professional Services engineers to speed time-to-market for new handset designs or features. Handset OEMs and ODMs who want to ensure meeting their market window with new platform technologies look for expertise in customizing, integrating, and optimizing platform components from the leader in mobile integration services. Wind River will integrate OEM-specific features and optimize them for the OEM's handset platform. Wind River can even provide ongoing maintenance for select mobile consortia platforms.
With tailored services that deliver cost-effective design, integration, migration, and performance optimization, our Professional Services team will ensure that you achieve maximum return on investment in Wind River platforms and our ecosystem technology.
Partners
Mobile Handset Partners
Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem ensures tight integration between our core technologies and those of the premier hardware and software companies we've chosen to build out our solutions. Our partners help to extend the capabilities of Wind River's development and run-time platforms by offering out-of-the-box integration and support for key technologies. Our customer support team is trained to troubleshoot partner technologies in use with Wind River products, making ours the most comprehensive and best-supported partner ecosystem in the DSO industry.
Silicon Partners
- ARM
- Broadcom
- Freescale
- Intel
- Marvel
- Qualcomm
- Texas Instruments
Independent Software Vendor Partners
- ACCESS
- Aplix
- Esmertec
- Gracenote
- iAnywhere
- Noser
- Nuance
- Opera Software
- Packet Video
- Qt Software
- Real Networks
- SoftFront
- Taproot
- Tilcon Software
Consortia
We are committed to standards. We built our DSO solution on them and are taking the lead in promoting them. A few examples of our commitment include driving the Device Software Development Platform project at the Eclipse Foundation; providing transparent Inter Process Communication (TIPC) support for messaging on the backplane between different operating systems; leading the way on Carrier Grade Linux with the Linux Foundation; and participating in AUTOSAR for automotive applications.
Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) focuses on the establishment and promotion of Linux-based digital consumer electronic products. CELF's main activities include defining requirements for a variety of extensions in Linux-based consumer electronics products, as well as collaborating and reaching consensus with open source projects and the Linux community, thereby promoting the proliferation of Linux-based digital electronics.
Eclipse Foundation enables tool providers to have ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.
Khronos Group is creating open standards such as OpenGL ES and OpenSL ES to enable the authoring and acceleration of dynamic media in devices such as mobile handsets.
Linux Foundation Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI) is dedicated to accelerating adoption of Linux on next-generation mobile handsets and other converged voice/data portable devices and to providing a mobile profile for the Linux Standards Base (LSB).
LiMo Foundation is advancing the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of a globally competitive, Linux-based software platform for mobile devices and cultivating an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. Wind River is a core member of LiMo and participates on the executive committee, the architectural council, and the requirements council with the other founders and core members.
Moblin.org is a community website for software vendors and Linux users to collaborate, share solutions, and contribute code. One specific community in Moblin is driving solutions for MIDs. Optimized for Intel Atom processor technologies, Wind River is building a MID solution, spanning the entire software stack, from BSP to applications. Along with open source contributions to Moblin.org, Wind River is offering a commercial solution for MIDs.
The Open Handset Alliance (OHA) is a partnership of leading mobile technology providers who have joined forces to create a complete, open, and freely available next-generation mobile platform called Android. The goal of Android is to simplify the development and distribution of mobile applications by providing a Linux-based mobile platform that comes out of the box, ready for commercialization. Wind River is a Linux commercialization partner for the OHA, providing services to Open Handset Alliance device manufacturers and other OEMs to port the platform onto their respective hardware platforms and optimize it based on their specific requirements.
WiMAX Forum is helping promote and certify the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products using the IEEE 802.16 and ETSI HiperMAN wireless MAN specifications. The forum's goal is to accelerate the introduction of these devices into the marketplace. WiMAX Forum Certified products will be fully interoperable and support metropolitan broadband fixed, portable, and mobile applications.
