Wind River, Cavium deliver multicore device debugging solution

ALAMEDA, CA and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA : Wind River Systems, Inc.and Cavium Networks announced the immediate availability of their advanced multicore device development solution. The solution couples Wind River’s Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Compiler with Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore processors.

It will provide a simplified development environment encompassing a complete development ecosystem, on-chip debugging tools, compilers, support and knowledge. Further, hardware and software developers will benefit from improved productivity and user experience when developing on cutting-edge multicore offerings, enabling customers to get higher-quality products working and delivered in less time and with fewer errors.

Multicore technology delivers significant advantages to device developers by providing higher processor performance, more effective power usage and a smaller physical footprint for embedded devices. However, multicore technology also requires new tools and a new approach to development that enables hardware and software developers to debug multiple cores simultaneously, while optimizing the development process through the use of integrated tools.

Features and capabilities of Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging and the Wind River Compiler are specifically targeted for sophisticated multicore silicon like Cavium Networks 16-core OCTEON multicore MIPS64 processors.

“The successful deployment of multicore solutions requires not only advanced hardware and software designed specifically for multicore, but the development tools to troubleshoot problems early. We applaud the efforts of Wind River and Cavium Networks for delivering a solution that is designed to improve productivity with faster responsiveness and user experience when debugging advanced multicore processors,” said Jorge Magalhaes, vice president of Marketing for the Embedded Computing business of Emerson Network Power.

“This collaboration shows how members of the ecosystem can work together to bring valuable and powerful solutions to the marketplace.”

“We have worked closely with Cavium Networks to provide a complete multicore debugging solution that supports the entire debug lifecycle from hardware bring-up through application development with Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging Edition,” said Sandy Orlando, vice president and general manager of Wind River On-Chip Debugging.

“We are proud to be endorsed by Cavium Networks for multicore debugging and take great pride in our technology leadership in JTAG based multicore debug. With our solution, Wind River supports a wide variety of environments for very sophisticated and high performance multicore processors.”