Wave Issue 9038 4/8/99 Article 9-01

***Wind River Introduces OSEK-Compliant Embedded Development
Solution for Automotive Applications
(February 17)

Wind River Systems introduced Tornado for Automotive Control, a
comprehensive suite of development tools for automotive
electronics applications. Tornado for Automotive Control
incorporates an OSEK-compliant RTOS derived from a close
partnership between Wind River and 3Soft, a German automotive
developer of OSEK real-time operating software. Tornado for
Automotive Control is a fully integrated OSEK-compliant embedded
development solution.

Tornado for Automotive Control provides an integrated development
environment (IDE) that is available for Windows NT, Windows 95
and Windows 98 hosts. The IDE unifies compilation, debugging and
other Tornado tools into a convenient, easy-to-use package.
Developers also have the option of using familiar command-line
interfaces. Additional tools specially designed for automotive
application development include a highly graphical OSEK
configurator with memory optimization features and an OSEK object
browser.

The RTOS within Tornado for Automotive Control is a fully OSEK
2.0 compliant operating system and includes OSEK COM 2.1
communications and OSEK NM 2.5 networking modules. The RTOS is
specifically optimized for each supported CPU architecture to
ensure maximum real-time performance and a low memory footprint.

Tornado for Automotive Control has the same open tools connection
API as the rest of the Tornado product line. To deliver a
seamless tool stack, mechanized code generation and multi-
paradigm debugging, Wind River is working with a number of
design, modeling and simulation tool vendors including Telelogic
Automotive (formerly S&P MEDIA), I-Logix and The MathWorks. Wind
River is also working with Hewlett-Packard Company's Automotive
Solutions Division integrating its automotive products. Tornado
for Automotive Control has an open target communications strategy
that will allow a range of target connections including serial,
CAN and in-circuit emulator.

The OSEK standard was defined by a group of major European
automotive manufacturers and component suppliers to provide a
common embedded development platform for the industry. It is now
being evaluated by many U.S. and Japanese manufacturers,
establishing it as the common world standard for this market.

Tornado for Automotive Control is available now for Siemens C167
processor. Additional processors will become available during the
year.

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