GE PowerPact3 IMP2B CompactPCI Single Board Computer Datenbogen

GE

Intelligent Platforms

Features
•  Extensive support for the embedded

industry’s most popular real-time oper-
ating system

•  Fully featured, standard board support

package (BSP) for all operating system
vendor-defined functions

•  Enhanced support package (ESP)

provides many extra functions not
defined by the operating system vendor,
including continuous test

•  BSPs / ESPs available for all GE Intel-

ligent Platforms SBC families. Includes
PowerXtreme, PowerXpress, EmPower,
PowerPact and XtraPower, all based on
PowerPC, plus INTraXtreme and INTra-
Pact based on Intel architectures

•  All Wind River ‘platforms’ supported, for

Workbench / VxWorks 6.x and Tornado /
VxWorks 5.x

VxWorks on GE Intelligent Platforms’ single
board computers (SBCs) creates a partner-
ship between the leading real-time software
system in the marketplace and the leading
COTS hardware platforms in the defense
arena, giving users an unprecedented choice
of compatible hardware and software mod-
ules to facilitate optimum system integration.

GE offers five PowerPC-based SBC families
and two Intel-based families, all with com-
prehensive VxWorks support and aimed
at different application areas. Each family
features a common architecture approach,
facilitating technology insertion, and the best
Deployed Test software for COTS systems in
the industry. In addition to progressive strat-
egies for obsolescence management, GE
supports defensive strategies including con-
figuration control, component health checks,
and component buy-ahead and storage.

GE is the COTS supplier of choice for mission-
critical applications based on either standard
VxWorks 5.x, or VxWorks 6.x with enhanced
memory protection and error-trapping.

Real-time operating systems for device
software play an integral role in how manu-
facturers develop, deploy and market their
devices. Over the past twenty years and
more, Wind River Systems has delivered and
supported the industry’s most significant
real-time operating systems. Wind River
operating systems have been used as the
foundation for a broad range of devices
across multiple markets, from set-top boxes,
cameras and planes to NASA’s Mars Rover.

VxWorks and pSOS, two of the most influen-
tial real-time operating systems, have been

VxWorks SBC Support

VxWorks Board Support Packages and Enhanced Support Packages

deployed in millions of devices worldwide.
Wind River customers continue to rely on
VxWorks, the world’s leading real-time
operating system, to provide the solid, deter-
ministic, small-footprint, high- performance
characteristics needed to successfully
develop and deploy their products better,
faster, at lower cost and more reliably.

Real-time operating systems from Wind
River include VxWorks 5.x and VxWorks 6.x.
VxWorks 5.x is the most established and
most widely deployed device software oper-
ating system in the embedded market.

The next generation of VxWorks adds pow-
erful new features and a focus on openness,
performance, dependability and interoper-
ability. With VxWorks 6.x, companies can:
•  Optimize developer productivity through

open standards

•  Increase reliability through MMU-based

memory protection

•  Accelerate time-to-market through

enhanced error management

•  Seamlessly migrate existing VxWorks-

based IP and other existing IPs, including
open source

Continue to deliver products that rely on the
core attributes of VxWorks, including high
performance, reliability, determinism, low
latency and scalability.

One of the central goals of VxWorks 6.x
was to ease migration from VxWorks 5.5. To
that end, the kernel of VxWorks completely
supports the VxWorks 5.5 kernel operat-
ing environment – most BSPs, drivers, and
kernel applications developed for or ported