Most proprietary development solutions limit flexibility, restrict interoperability of systems and tools, and actually increase the costs of development. Wind River has taken a different approach to helping our clients succeed. Based on the Eclipse platform, Wind River Workbench is a collection of tools that accelerates time-to-market for developers building devices with VxWorks and Wind River Linux. Through tight integration with the industry's leading RTOS and the leading device Linux distribution, Workbench offers the only end-to-end, open standards–based collection of tools for device software design, development, debugging, test, and management.

A Complete Solution

Working with Wind River can significantly improve your odds for success. A stable, publicly held company, Wind River provides a complete solution for device software development. In addition to Workbench, our solution includes Wind River Customer Support, a Support Center Practices–certified organization, our CMMI Level 3–certified Professional Services organization, and an extensive ecosystem of partners. This comprehensive offering achieves the following:

• Improves time-to-market with tools that help developers visualize complex configurations, debugging, and test
• Makes managing your tools investment easier through common adoption of Eclipse and Workbench across your organization
• Enables developers to take advantage of additional design, development, and test plug-ins through Eclipse integration
• Simplifies third-party tools integration and allows you to choose best-of-breed add-ins

Powerful Tools

From hardware and board initialization to device management, Workbench offers deep capability throughout the development process in a single integrated environment, with complete platform integration and tools for debugging, code analysis, advanced visualization, root-cause analysis, and test. Wind River Workbench integrates the industry's most powerful development tools to monitor, analyze, and debug at each phase of development, providing early detection of potentialdefects and increasing the overall quality and reliability of your product. Workbench's support for multiple operating systems, architectures, and programming languages gives companies unprecedented flexibility to standardize on a single development framework across the enterprise. Workbench offers tightly coupled analysis and instrumentation tools for Wind River frameworks, so customers have only one tool suite to purchase and manage for both VxWorks and Linux development.
Workbench can be extended via IPL Cantata++ for Wind River Workbench (formerly Wind River Workbench Unit Tester), a plug-in for unit testing, code integration testing, and test coverage analysis. Also, Workbench On-Chip Debugging aids system developers early in the development cycle, while Wind River ICE and Wind River Probe provide hardwarebased debugging capabilities.

The following are additional components for enhancing developer productivity with Workbench:

• Wind River Compiler enables developers from all industries to create exceptionally fast, tight code for their device software applications. This product combines industry-leading optimization technology with the flexibility and control required to fully exploit today's complex embedded CPUs. Close relationships with silicon partners make it possible for Wind River to provide highly optimized compilers for new silicon with short lead times, enabling customers to immediately gain maximum performance from their investment.

• Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging Edition is designed to meet the needs of developers early in the device software development cycle-handling initial board bring-up and validation, developing device drivers, incorporating low-level software capabilities, and developing C/C++ applications. This edition offers a feature-rich development suite optimized for the capabilities of JTAG-based debugging, using Wind River ICE and Wind River Probe. Where a target operating system is involved, target OS awareness extends the on-chip debugging capabilities of Workbench to include support for VxWorks 5.5/6.x and Linux.

• Wind River Lab Diagnostics is a scalable, distributed software diagnostics system that enables development and test engineers to develop Sensorpoints to inject faults, characterize running applications, perform fact-based analysis, and resolve issues encountered during product validation. The enterprise-wide infrastructure of Lab Diagnostics allows distributed development and test teams to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple devices under test at multiple locations, fostering collaboration and streamlining the product verification and validation (V&V) process.

• IPL Cantata++ for Wind River Workbench is a set of tools provided by IPL that enables developers to more efficiently complete unit testing, integration testing, and code coverage analysis on the tests. Integration between IPL's Cantata++ software and the rest of the Workbench development suite places these capabilities within easy reach of every developer. This add-on helps increase software quality, decrease time-to-market, and reduce support costs through better, faster, more automated testing during the development life cycle.