Wind River and Cavium Networks Partner to Develop Advanced Multicore Device Debugging Solution

Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging to provide multicore development environment for Cavium Networks OCTEON processors

In cooperation with Cavium Networks, a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products, Wind River will develop an advanced multicore device development solution. The solution couples Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Compiler with Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore processors, which are designed for intelligent processing in networking, communications, storage and security applications. This combination will provide customers with a simplified development environment encompassing a complete development ecosystem, on-chip debugging tools, compilers, support and knowledge, substantially decreasing the complexity of multicore development processes.

Multicore technology delivers significant advantages to device developers by providing higher processor performance, more effective power usage and a smaller physical footprint for embedded devices. However, multicore technology also requires new tools and a new approach to debugging and process optimization. By specifically tayloring features and capabilities of Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Compiler to Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore processors, hardware and software developers will have a ready-made development environment at their disposal, which will enable them to be more productive and to produce cutting-edge network products. Optimizing Workbench and Compiler for OCTEON processors allows customers to:

- Quickly bring up the Cavium Networks OCTEON hardware and debug interactions between the hardware and software running across multiple cores

- Develop application software, including multi-threaded applications, in a seamless manner

- Use patent-pending technology to support core synchronization, enabling customers to start and stop multiple cores to determine problem areas

- Utilize On-Chip Debugging's unique System Mode debugging capabilities to view software activities on all cores at a given point in time in order to analyze the interaction of software running on multiple cores

- Maximize JTAG bandwidth for multicore debug with Wind River's patent-pending JTAG accelerator technology to help speed the development and analysis processes

- Benefit from a scalable solution supporting debugging on scan chains with up to 128 cores

- Streamline development across multiple homogeneous and heterogeneous cores, including those with different instruction sets

- Use Wind River Compiler to generate optimized application code for OCTEON

Availability

The Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging solution for OCTEON is available today under Wind River's Enterprise and Perpetual Licensing Business Models. There are various hardware, software and bundle options available to the customer so that Wind River can provide a solution that best meets the needs of our end customer.

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About Wind River

Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.
Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, call 1-800-872-4977 or visit Wind River at http://www.windriver.com.

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