VxWorks

Wind River System's Tornado/VxWorks is available on Thales Computers' VMPC6a (PPC750), VMPC6c (PPC7400), VMPC6d (PPC7410), and PowerEngine7 (PPC750FX) single and dual processor SBCs, on the VxG4b and VxG4c family of computing nodes (two or four PPC7410) as well as the PowerNode3 single/dual 1 GHz G4 high-end computing node, on our Pentium SBCs, the PENTXM and PENTX3, and on our intelligent PMC carrier, the VCE405. Most PMC cards are also supported.

Thales Computers VxWorks Board Support Packages (BSP) for the PowerEngine family of PowerPC single-board computers are now listed on the BSP section of Wind River's web site. The list also gives access to more information for customers entering this page from a WindSurf account.

Thales Computers' BSP software survived the rigors of the Wind River certification program, ensuring Thales Computers' and Wind River's customers are provided with the best support possible and will be able to reap maximum performance from the PowerPC-based PowerEngine family of products.

The Tornado development environment includes the industry-standard VxWorks real-time operating system. Tornado is a host-based operating system. The tools and graphical user interfaces are executed on the host, while the downloading and debugging phase take place on the target through an Ethernet or serial connection where the VxWorks kernel and the run-time support reside.

Tornado is scalable across a wide variety of products from small, resource-constrained embedded targets to large-scale multiprocessing systems.