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Wind River and StarGen Collaborate to Deliver Enhanced Solution for the Embedded Industry
StarFabric Bus Driver Developed for Wind River's VxWorks Embedded Real-Time Operating System
MARLBOROUGH, Mass. - February 25, 2002 - StarGen, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, and Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for embedded systems developers, today announced the introduction of a StarFabric Bus Driver created for Wind River's market-leading VxWorks® embedded real-time operating system (RTOS). Through Wind River's WindLink™ program, this collaboration allows customers utilizing VxWorks in embedded applications and markets, such as data networking, industrial, medical, digital imaging, transportation, aerospace, and multimedia, to take full advantage of StarFabric, an open switched interconnect technology, while maintaining the benefits of its real-time flexibility, scalability, and reliability. Through this enhanced offering, customers can now profit from StarFabric's advanced system interconnect features such as cost-effective scalability, high-availability and true quality of service, while providing backward compatibility with existing hardware and software investments.
"VxWorks is used extensively in StarGen's target markets of telecom equipment and numerous embedded applications," said Tracy Richardson, president of StarGen, Inc. "Customers requiring the real-time predictability of VxWorks can now take advantage of the high-availability and quality of service that have become synonymous with StarFabric."
Developed specifically to meet the needs of next-generation communication and embedded systems, StarGen's production-ready StarFabric technology is a high-speed, point-to-point switched backplane and chassis-to-chassis interconnect solution.
"Our customers are looking for robust support for loosely-coupled, distributed computing, and highly available systems. The flexibility and scalability of our VxWorks RTOS, gives our customers the support they need," said Caroline Yao, director of partner solutions at Wind River. "This collaboration is another joint effort in our WindLink partnership program to boost performance and speed the time-to-market of open switched interconnect technology."
The VxWorks StarFabric Bus Driver V1.0 is available now.
About Wind River's WindLink Partner Program
The WindLink Partner Program is focused on helping hardware and software developers, system integrators, and consultants create and sell products and services that complement or are integrated with Wind River products. Wind River continually seeks out partners in strategic market segments such as Internet infrastructure, telecommunications, Internet appliances, consumer electronics, and semiconductors. WindLink partners work hand-in-hand with Wind River to provide total solutions to joint customers.
About Wind River
Wind River is a worldwide leader in integrated embedded software solutions for creating reliable and innovative connected devices. Wind River provides development tools, operating systems, and advanced connectivity software for use in products in network infrastructure, digital consumer electronics, automotive, industrial, and aerospace/defense markets. Wind River is How Smart Things Think™. Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide.
About StarGen
StarGen (www.StarGen.com) is a fabless semiconductor company that has developed a new switched interconnect technology for the communication and embedded industries. The technology benefits vendors of carrier and enterprise communication platforms for next generation voice, data, and video networks. Early adopters include those building open standards based access/edge equipment such as media over packet gateways, convergence switches, broadband access concentrators, wireless base stations, cable headend systems, edge routers, and remote access concentrators. Many embedded applications benefit from StarGen's distributed multi-processing features. StarGen's technology provides a dramatic increase in equipment performance, reliability, and Quality of Service while providing for the retention of existing standards-based hardware and software investment. StarGen is headquartered in Marlborough Massachusetts.
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