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VxWorks is a real-time operating system (or RTOS) developed as proprietary software by Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Aptiv.First released in 1987, VxWorks is designed for use in embedded systems requiring real-time, deterministic performance and in many cases, safety and security certification for industries such as aerospace, defense, medical devices, industrial equipment, robotics ...
Wind River Extends Multicore Capabilities for Industry-Leading VxWorks NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Wind River demonstrates innovation and leadership with multicore enabled real-time operating system.
Wind River Systems, Inc., also known as Wind River (trademarked as Wndrvr), is an Alameda, California–based company, subsidiary of Aptiv PLC. The company develops embedded system and cloud software consisting of real-time operating systems software, industry-specific software, simulation technology, development tools and middleware .
Since the 1980s, the chief rival to VRTX has been VxWorks, a Wind River Systems product. VxWorks had its start in the mid 1980s as compiler and assembly language tools to supplement VRTX, named VRTX works, or VxWorks. Later, Wind River created their own real-time kernel offering similar to VRTX.
SafeNet Teams with Wind River to Simplify Software Monetization for Embedded Systems Running on VxWorks SafeNet Sentinel® RMS together with Wind River VxWorks® RTOS provide embedded system ...
Wind River Hypervisor Wind River x86, x86-64, PowerPC, ARM Same as host No host OS Linux, VxWorks, unmodified guests (including MS Windows and RTOSes such ach OSE, QNX and others), bare metal virtual board Proprietary: Xen: Xensource, Now Citrix Systems: x86, x86-64, ARM, IA-64 (inactive), PowerPC (inactive) Same as host Linux, Unix-like
In November 2015, Wind River Systems renamed the operating system to Rocket, made it open-source and royalty-free. [11] Compared to Wind River's other RTOS, VxWorks, Rocket had much smaller memory needs, especially suitable for sensors and single-function embedded devices. Rocket could fit into as little as 4 KB of memory, while VxWorks needed ...
In the 1990s, Green Hills Software and Wind River Systems, both makers of embedded system software development tools, entered into a 99-year agreement to cooperatively support customers using products from both companies. The agreement was terminated after a lawsuit in 2005.