Date: 23rd Aug 2010
Wind River's embedded-software support
for car infotainment apps
At the Embedded Systems Conference held recently in Bangalore,
Wind River had displayed a car PC reference platform by
using the hardware made by Compal of Taiwan. Praful Joshi,
Business Development Manager, Wind River Systems, India
says "We have created the complete software & hardware
combination with interesting features."
Wind River is one of the founding member of GENIVI, an
alliance focused on the development of in-vehicle infotainment
products. The other founding members of GENIVI are BMW,
Intel, GM, PSA, Delphi, Magneti-Marelli, and Visteon. Wind
River is involved in optimizing the software stack and adding
additional features, so that customers can take optimized
version of the pack to put in the end product. The new version
of GENIVI platform is based on MeeGo. "MeeGo is more
suitable for car infotainment compared to Android or and
such software" says Praful.
Venkatesh Kumaran, Country Manager- India of Wind River
says,
"MeeGo is positioned more for infotainment, primarily
a non-voice a non-terminal based (non-handset based) application,
where as Android is primarily for mobile, there is huge
play. I am not going to say it is limited but we also see
Android getting into non-voice as well."
Wind River is now an Intel owned company. On the question
of chances of Wind River leaning more towards Intel's chips,
Venkatesh says his company will continue to exist as independent
entity, Wind river will be vendor neutral and we continue
to support non-Intel silicon vendors such as Freescale Semiconductor,
TI etc..
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