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Wind River Backs PowerPC

By Richard Ball -- Electronics Weekly, 6/23/2005

Wind River Systems has announced it will provide support for Freescale’s latest PowerPC and PowerQUICC processors across all its development platforms.

The relationship with Freescale’s Networking and Computing Systems Group (NCSG) is part of Wind River's so-called device software optimization (DSO) strategy.

"By tightly aligning our product roadmaps, we are able to expand our OS support, drive innovation, and continue to make the device development process more efficient and more cost effective for our joint customers," said John Fanelli, VP of product planning and management for Wind River.

David Perkins, senior VP and general manager of Freescale’s NCSG, added: "With the network equipment market changing so rapidly, our customers are constantly looking to us to provide solutions that will help them differentiate themselves."

Operating system support includes Linux, VxWorks and ThreadX.

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