Wind River is the only independent company that can offer an OSEK operating system with a matching and fully integrated tool suite, stated Ron Abelmann, president and CEO of Wind River Systems. Tornado for Automotive Control, combined with our global applications and technical support infrastructure and 3Soft s automotive consulting services organization, will offer a complete solution to automotive developers with embedded applications worldwide. We have been using Tornado in our department for several years and recognize the importance of this major step forward by Wind River in its support for automotive applications development, commented Dr. Sesser of BMW s Research and Consulting Department. BMW has played a significant part in the definition of OSEK and encouraged its adoption as a standard across the automotive industry. We therefore warmly welcome this support for the standard by one of the leading suppliers of embedded development environments in this market.
Developers also have the option of using familiar, powerful command-line interfaces.
Additional tools specially designed for automotive application development include a highly graphical OSEK configurator with memory optimization features and an OSEK object browser. The RTOS within Tornado for Automotive Control is a fully OSEK 2.0 compliant operating system and includes OSEK COM 2.1 communications and OSEK NM 2.5 networking modules. The RTOS is specifically optimized for each supported CPU architecture to ensure maximum real-time performance and a low memory footprint. Tornado API Facilitates Third Party Tool Development Tornado for Automotive Control has the same open tools connection API as the rest of the Tornado product line. Wind River is also working with Hewlett-Packard Company's Automotive Solutions Division integrating its automotive products.