Wind River Hypervisor made available

Wind River Hypervisor is a high-performance type-one hypervisor that supports virtualisation on single and multicore processors.

It provides integration with Wind River's operating systems (VxWorks and Wind River Linux) and supports other operating systems.

The Wind River Workbench development tool suite has been extended to support developing software that runs on the Wind River Hypervisor.

Wind River Hypervisor enables virtualisation for devices across a range of market segments, including aerospace and defence, automotive, consumer devices, industrial, and networking.

Within these markets, embedded developers are adopting hypervisors to enable the replacement of multiple boards or CPUs with a single board and/or a single CPU, create new devices that leverage multiple operating systems, and reduce complexity when integrating multicore processors.

The benefits of using the Wind River Hypervisor include reduced hardware costs and power consumption, opportunity for innovation, and accelerated time-to-market.

Wind River has made it easier for customers to consolidate their systems and adopt multicore technology in devices by using key features in Wind River Hypervisor, including: support for single and multicore processors; focus on real-time aspects such as performance, latency, determinism and minimal footprint; protection between operating systems and cores, including starting, stopping, reloading operating systems to increase reliability; and highly optimised silicon-specific hardware support.