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Intel and Wind River in-vehicle platform is on its way


By P. J. Connolly
May 20, 2008 — 
Wind River, with some help from Intel, is taking a leap into the in-vehicle infotainment market. It announced today at the Telematics 2008 conference in Detroit that it expected to make a commercial platform available next year. It would also be making the project code available to the open-source community by the end of this summer.

The platform, dubbed the Wind River Linux Platform for Infotainment, will be optimized for Intel’s Atom processor, which the chipmaker introduced in April. According to Wind River, it will be pre-integrated with such third-party applications as Nuance’s speech-recognition and Gracenote’s music management and playlisting technologies.

Wind River’s goal is to reduce the complexity of the in-vehicle device market by providing an integrated, Linux-based development environment, said the general manager of the company’s Linux products division, senior vice president Vincent Rerolle, in a prepared statement.

The platform will work with consumer electronics devices, such as the iPod, and offer 3D graphics. Additionally, it would interoperate with core automotive specifications, including Controller Area Network, a commonly-used bus for industrial automation and in-vehicle communications, and Media-Oriented Systems Transport, an emerging networking standard for automotive multimedia.

Major manufacturers and suppliers in the auto industry such as BMW, Bosch and Delphi are working with Intel and Wind River to develop the platform. The challenge for the platform’s creators is to provide connected, graphics-intensive and multimedia-oriented applications in a low-power environment that meets safety and usability requirements. The company expects the commercial version of the platform to be available in the later half of fiscal 2009.

As part of the festivities, Wind River will deliver the platform’s specification and code to the Moblin.org in-vehicle infotainment community site, in hopes of allowing manufacturers to save time and money in the product development cycle by providing an open platform. If things go as planned, that will happen by August.


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