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VxWorks
VxWorks 7 boot-up screen
Developer
Wind River (a wholly owned subsidiary of Aptiv)
OS family
Real-time operating systems
Working state
Current
Initial release
1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Latest release
VxWorks 7 24.03 / February 27, 2024; 2 months ago (2024-02-27)
Marketing target
Embedded systems
Platforms
x86, x86-64, MIPS, PowerPC, SH-4, ARM, RISC-V
Kernel type
Monolithic
License
Proprietary
Official website
Windriver.com/products/vxworks
VxWorks is a real-time operating system (or RTOS) developed as proprietary software by Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Aptiv. First released in 1987, VxWorks is designed for use in embedded systems requiring real-time, deterministic performance and in many cases, safety and security certification for industries such as aerospace, defense, medical devices, industrial equipment, robotics, energy, transportation, network infrastructure, automotive, and consumer electronics.[1]
VxWorks supports AMD/Intel architecture, POWER architecture, ARM architectures and RISC-V.[2] The RTOS can be used in multicore asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP), symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and mixed modes[3] and multi-OS (via Type 1 hypervisor)[4] designs on 32- and 64-bit processors.[5]
VxWorks comes with the kernel, middleware, board support packages, Wind River Workbench development suite, complementary third-party software and hardware. In its latest release, VxWorks 7, the RTOS has been re-engineered for modularity and upgradeability so the OS kernel is separate from middleware, applications and other packages.[6] Scalability, security, safety, connectivity, and graphics have been improved to address Internet of Things (IOT) needs.[7][8][9]
^"VxWorks Goes 64-bit", Electronic Design, March 25, 2011
^"Wind River Announces RISC-V Support for VxWorks RTOS". www.businesswire.com. December 10, 2019. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
^RTOS Handles AMP and SMP, electronic design, March 2009
^Embedded Star Archived April 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Article, February 2011
^Wind River Archived December 4, 2022, at the Wayback Machine reinvents real-time system for the Internet of Things, iTERS news, March 2014
^"VxWorks 7 Announced". harmonicss.co.uk. 2014. Archived from the original on July 4, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
^Wind River Reinvents the RTOS for the IoT, Business Wire, February 2014
^Jackson, Joab (2014). "Wind River outfits VxWorks for 'Internet of things' | ITworld". itworld.com. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
VxWorks is a real-time operating system (or RTOS) developed as proprietary software by Wind River Systems, a subsidiary of Aptiv. First released in 1987...
1987: Wind River introduces VxWorks, a leading real-time operating system for embedded devices.[citation needed] 1995: VxWorks launches into space on the...
based on Linux, after the original WRT54G line was switched from Linux to VxWorks, starting with version 5. The WRT54GL is technically a reissue of the version...
kernel-mode driver in Windows NT and downloadable kernel module (DKM) in VxWorks. They are also known as kernel loadable modules (or KLM), and simply as...
ROM_SIZE and RAM_HIGH_ADRS. A Makefile, which defines binary versions of VxWorks ROM images for programming into flash memory. A boot ROM file, which defines...
Linux? And How does it work?, retrieved 2019-06-05[dead link] "Migrating VxWorks applications to Linux" (PDF). Monta Vista Software. 2008. Archived from...
Framework 2.0 and higher. The "deflate" utility in TORNADO as part of VxWorks Operating System made by Wind River Systems uses zlib to compress boot...
debuted in September 2001 in the BMW 7 Series (E65) and was built on the VxWorks kernel while the Navigation computer used Microsoft Windows CE for Automotive;...
continuation of Micrium's μC/OS-III forked from the open-sources release VxWorks – Small footprint, scalable, high-performance RTOS for embedded microprocessor...
9 PikeOS QNX RIOT RTEMS RTXC Quadros SCIOPTA ThreadX TizenRT T-Kernel VxWorks Windows Embedded Compact Windows 10 IoT Core Zephyr As of March 2024, the...
raspberrypi.org. July 14, 2021. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. "VxWorks offers support for many standard graphic libraries, such as ..., and Vulkan"...
operating on nearly any operating system, including Windows CE, Linux, QNX and VxWorks. In 2002, ViewSonic announced a 3840x2400 WQUXGA, 22.2-inch monitor, VP2290...
Commercial for VxWorks | Qt Blog". Blog.qt.digia.com. Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2013-03-19. "Qt for VxWorks | Qt 5.13". doc...
become obsolete, with mainstream support having ended in 2018. OS-9 and VxWorks are also notable embedded operating systems. In the current landscape of...
common operating system on such embedded devices is Linux. Less frequently, VxWorks is used. The devices are configured over a web user interface served by...
programming interfaces (APIs) from Unix and other common RTOSes (such as VxWorks) are adopted for functions unavailable under these standards,[citation...
software implementations. Real-time operating systems (RTOSes) such as VxWorks and QNX encourage the use of message queuing as the primary inter-process...
interface for disk and printer sharing Built-in file server (AFP and SMB) Runs VxWorks Operating System by WindRiver or a customized version of NetBSD. The AirPort...
The rover's computers run VxWorks, a real-time operating system from Wind River Systems. During the trip to Mars, VxWorks ran applications dedicated...
system. Since version 5, flash memory was reduced from 4 MB to 2 MB, and VxWorks was used instead of Linux. The original Linux model with 4 MB was later...
implementations of an API for several real-time operating systems (such as vxWorks, eCos, RTLinux, RTEMS). Implementations may also be provided for non real-time...
longer under active development CellOS for PlayStation 3 HelenOS M-RTOS VxWorksVxWorks 653 Nucleus RTOS LiveDevices RTA-OSEKLive Microware OS-9 MikroTik RouterOS...
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