Virtutech Simics Used to Develop Wind River Hypervisor and Secure VxWorks MILS Platform

VSD Platform Doubles Productivity and Enables More Iterative, Flexible
Development Processes to Meet Demands of Advanced Multicore Environments and
Challenge of OS Refactoring
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Virtutech, Inc., the leader in virtualized systems development (VSD), today
announced that Wind River has successfully deployed the Simics simulation
platform for development of both its Wind River Hypervisor and secure VxWorks
MILS Platform. With Virtutech Simics as the foundation for its complex and
challenging development projects, Wind River adopted more iterative, flexible
processes that meet the demands of developing advanced run-times for multicore
and multi-OS applications.

"With both Wind River Hypervisor and the VxWorks MILS Platform, Simics enabled
Wind River to leverage capabilities like system checkpointing and reverse
execution, while providing complete visibility inside a complex software image,"
said Michel Genard, vice president of marketing, Virtutech, Inc. "While Wind
River is well known as a developer of innovative software solutions and
developer tools, including Wind River Workbench, it should also be recognized
for adopting agile development processes that will change the way companies
conduct their businesses."

Wind River initially licensed Virtutech Simics three years ago as the simulation
platform for the Freescale 8641D. A year later, the company turned to Simics as
the development platform for its two most intricate projects: its
multicore-capable hypervisor software and the development of its MILS
architecture secure platform. Simics provided a standard PowerPC/Intel platform
as the foundation layer so Wind River developers could go directly to developing
code for their hypervisor technology, significantly cutting the time it took to
develop the firmware, hardware and tools required for running a wide variety of
embedded operating systems.

"Whether you are building the core hardware, OS or surrounding architecture,
multicore technology is so disruptive that companies really must do things
differently," said Marcus Levy, president of the Multicore Association. "Wind
River hypervisor technology is another example of a company deploying
Virtualized Systems Development as the `must have` development foundation for
sophisticated multicore environments."

For its new secure VxWorks MILS Platform, Simics helped Wind River to quickly
develop "what-if" use cases, build the complex test cases needed for any secure
application development and port from one architecture in a matter of days
instead of months.

"The Simics technology is an essential technology component to develop our
advanced run-times such as Wind River Hypervisor and VxWorks MILS," said Emeka
Nwafor, director of product management, Wind River. "Our experience has been
that applying VSD has improved the effectiveness of our development and testing
activities and streamlined the development of these intricate run-times. This
has been beneficial in managing the same schedule and cost pressures that our
customers face."

About Simics

Simics is a high performance full-system simulator that enables engineers to
develop, debug, test and run their entire software application stack on a
virtual representation of their target hardware named virtual platform. The
overall engineering development efforts are reduced through advanced
capabilities normally not available with physical hardware: non-invasive
debugging and tracing, saving and later resuming execution, full deterministic
behavior, built-in networking capabilities, forward and reverse execution,
ability to examine, control, and break on any internal device and to inject
faults, and the ability to save system state and later replay it. Simics runs
unmodified production-quality binaries and can be used with third party software
development tools.

Intel, Intel Architecture, Intel Core, Intel Core2 Duo and Intel Atom are
trademarks of Intel in the US and other countries.

About Virtutech

Virtutech, Inc. is the leader in product development process improvement through
virtualized systems development (VSD). Virtutech Simics allows for a
revolutionary change in the product development process at a full system level
rather than a component level and is the only commercial solution that delivers
the four most important criteria for successful deployment of hardware
virtualization in the electronics equipment development process: speed,
scalability, model availability, and control. Simics customers report reduced
time to market, better project risk management, lower capital expenditure,
product development cost and maintenance as well as increased quality and
individual productivity. Virtutech serves the needs of the world`s leading OEMs
in the high-performance computing, aerospace and defense, telecommunications,
networking and semiconductor industries. Customers include Cisco, Ericsson,
Freescale Semiconductor, GE Avionics, Honeywell, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Nortel,
Northrop Grumman, MontaVista Software and Wind River. Virtutech is an active
participant in organizations to drive adoption of VSD such as ARM Connected
Community, Eclipse.org, IBM PartnerWorld, Multicore Association, Power.org, OSCI
and Spirit Consortium. Virtutech is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more
information, visit www.virtutech.com.

Schwartz Communications, Inc.
Merrill Freund or Michelle Reingold, 415-512-0770
virtutech@schwartz-pr.com
or
Virtutech, Inc.
Michel Genard, 408-392-9144
mgenard@virtutech.com

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