SAN JOSE, USA: Embedded and mobile software maker Wind River is currently working with a number of processor board vendors to provide embedded development kits, which will enable embedded developers to begin application development in below one hour.

The kits provided by the Wind River On-Board Program include processor boards with optimized trial versions of Wind River’s operating systems, development tools, and embedded hypervisor and also graphics software, according to e-week. com. 

The Wind River kit also includes a bootable USB flash drive that transforms any host computer into a fully integrated development environment (IDE), with no other installation required. Each commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), processor board comes with a pre-flashed 30-day run-time trial version of Wind River’s VxWorks real-time operating system and/or Wind River Linux. 

As of now, kits from Emerson Network Power, Eurotech and Kontron are available in the market. Additional Embedded Development Kits from Advantech, ADLINK, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, GE Intelligent Platforms and RadiSys will be available in the fourth quarter of 2010 say reports.

The software from Wind River is key for developing, running, debugging and prototyping embedded software directly onto the chosen COTS processor board using the Wind River Workbench. Each kit is customized with a startup guide and comprehensive, step-by-step tutorials that take the developer through applicable use cases and workflows that make it easy to start using it in a short time. 

Kits that are available now are the Emerson MATXM-CORE-411-WR for VxWorks, Wind River Linux, and Wind River Hypervisor; Eurotech boards Catalyst FX, Catalyst LP, Catalyst Module XL and ISIS and platforms Helios and ISIS ICE for Wind River Linux and Tilcon Graphics Suite; and Kontron nanoETXexpress-SP, uETXexpress-DC, uETXexpress-SP, VX3020 and VX3230 for VxWorks, Wind River Linux and Tilcon Graphics Suite.