Wind River and PrismTech Announce COTS Software Defined Radio Solution

SDR Solution Achieves Breakthrough Performance
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Wind River today announced that it has collaborated with PrismTech in the
development of a high-performance software defined radio (SDR) solution for the
military and public sectors. According to testing conducted by PrismTech, this
combined SDR solution has demonstrated breakthrough performance on multiple
processors from Freescale and Intel, including round trip times of less than 10
seconds to power up, initialize the platform, load waveform components, unload
waveform components, and shut down the radio.

The solution combines Wind River`s VxWorks 6 real-time operating system with
compliance to both Software Communication Architecture (SCA) 2.2.2 and POSIX
PSE52 runtime libraries, with PrismTech`s Spectra SDR Operating Environment,
including small form factor core framework and embedded ORB middleware.
PrismTech`s Spectra SDR Operating Environment also operates with Wind River
Linux, with comparable performance, which enables a wide range of complementary
SDR applications and hardware platforms to be deployed. PrismTech is testing the
combined solution on leading hardware platforms, including ARM, Freescale, and
Intel architectures, and is delivering comprehensive benchmarking documentation.

The combined SDR solution will allow developers of software defined radios to
use commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) components that adhere to SCA software
radio standards, enabling radio manufacturers to immediately meet stringent
requirements of the military and public sectors. These standards are mandated by
the U.S. Department of Defense for Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) and
validated by the JTRS Test and Evaluation Laboratory (JTEL). Standards
compliance is fundamental to wireless interfaces and increasingly to the
software architecture inside the radio. Standardization of the software
architecture facilitates application software and radio waveform reuse and
evolution across diverse hardware platforms, hence lowering development costs
and shortening time-to-market for new radio functionality.

"This collaboration will help the shift from hardware-centric, proprietary
radios, to software-controlled, reprogrammable, standards-based radios that
offer maximum flexibility and value," said Rob Hoffman, general manager,
Aerospace and Defense, Wind River. "By using COTS platforms and tools, project
managers can help manage the risks of one-off custom software developments by
exploiting the tooling support; and robust testing, packaging, standards
compliance, and professional support of commercial software products."

Compliance with SDR standards is a complex issue with many mandatory
requirements and involving multiple advanced technologies. Thus the efficient
development and deployment of operating environments is extremely difficult
without advanced tools and well-tested, well-packaged, and well-supported COTS
software solutions. The combined Wind River and PrismTech SDR solution includes
advanced tooling for modeling, code-generation, and compliance validation. This
maximizes developer time on applications development rather than software
infrastructure and tooling support. COTS products benefit from
economies-of-scale, on-going development, and professional support not available
with custom developments, reducing total lifecycle costs in multiple ways.

"Together the breakthrough performance and superior tooling of the combined
software solution make it a best-in-class software development environment,"
said Keith Steele, CEO, PrismTech. "As well as superior performance, PrismTech`s
Spectra product line also includes tooling to validate SCA compliance at both
the architectural and unit test level, and generate SCA compliant artifacts."

Additional features of the combined Wind River and PrismTech SDR solution
include:

* SCA AEP 2.2.2 conformant library for rapid component integration;
* Market leading Spectra CX advanced SDR SCA waveform and platform development
tool supporting model-driven engineering;
* C and C++ language support for optimized, portable radio software development
and deployment;
* Spectra e*ORB optimized CORBA library;
* Wind River Advanced Network Technology stack supporting both VxWorks and Wind
River Linux;
* VxWorks 6 and Wind River Linux operating system platforms available on a wide
range of COTS board vendors using high-performance commercial semiconductors;
and
* Award-winning Wind River Workbench Eclipse-based development environment.

Availability

The Wind River and PrismTech SDR solution is immediately available to customers
worldwide. Additional information about VxWorks and Wind River Linux is
available at http://www.windriver.com. Additional information about PrismTech`s
Spectra OE is available at http://www.prismtech.com/spectra.

About Wind River

Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the
global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Wind River enables
companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower
cost and more reliably. Wind River platforms are pre-integrated, fully
standardized, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost
and risk and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device
software development process, from concept to deployed product.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations
worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Wind River
Bryan Thomas, +1 510-749-2414
bryan.thomas@windriver.com
or
Bite Communications for Wind River
Jessica Cheney, +1 415-365-0382
jessica.cheney@bitepr.com

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