NEC Electronics and Wind River Partner to Develop Linux Solutions for Portable Audio/Visual Devices Market

NEC Electronics, a provider of semiconductor solutions, and Wind River, a developer of Device Software Optimization (DSO), announced a collaboration to jointly develop Linux solutions for the market of portable devices, such as multimedia players and mobile televisions.

As the first jointly developed solution, NEC Electronics said it introduced a new software development kit (SDK) based on Wind River Linux technology for the company's EMMA Mobile 1, an optimal system LSI chip for the market of portable devices to process audio and visual (A/V) data. Additional SDKs for EMMA series products based on Wind River Linux technology targeting digital multimedia consumer devices are expected to follow in late 2009 and in 2010.

The companies said the SDK will be used in conjunction with a hardware development kit to allow designers to test and evaluate the system performance of EMMA Mobile 1 as well as to develop middleware and software for the system. Customers will be able to engage Wind River Professional Services to transition their Linux solutions to Wind River's commercial-grade Linux, backed by support and a partner ecosystem.

"NEC Electronics has been providing middleware solutions indispensable in system development through our platformOViA partner program with 39 business partners having technological expertise. We're strengthening our relationship with Wind River to provide customers of portable A/V devices with an enablement suite designed to address customer requirements for expanded Linux OS support," said Masao Hirasawa, general manager, SoC Systems Division, NEC Electronics. "The jointly developed enablement platform offers the development tools that customers need, acting as a solution to design products with incredibly short time-to-market."

"By selecting to build their SDK using the Wind River distribution, NEC Electronics can offer its customers a transition path to a commercial Linux platform," said Vincent Rerolle, senior VP and general manager, Linux Product Division, Wind River.

Samples of NEC Electronics' new SDK are available immediately, the company noted in a release.

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