Windriver Workbench Demo Videos

[neutrino15]

After clicking around for a few minutes on Windriver's site, i found this Demo Player.. You can watch a bunch of demo videos of Windriver Workbench and get a feel for how it works. Needless to say, I am excited!

http://www.windriver.com/products/development_suite/wr_demos/

[Qbranch]

Wow! Awesome!

I wonder how many of those tools teams will actually recieve though... something tells me that each one of those little screens at the bottom of the demo adds a few thousand... I guess it comes down to exactly how generous is Wind River going to be?

I notice that they talk about Linux a few times in the demo too... is the compact RIO Linux based?

Cool... very cool. I'm glad to see that FIRST is still heavily supporting C. As much as Lab View may become an industrial standard of sorts for automation, in the forseeable future it will never be efficient enouogh to develop software for any of the low-power-device paydirt.

-q

[jtdowney]

From my understanding the cRIO runs Wind River VxWorks which is a Unix-like RTOS (Real-Time Operating System). Now I don't foresee them letting you break out into a CLI on your robot next year but we can always hope. As for the Wind River Workbench, I am also very excited to get started with it next year.

[ericand]

Wind River Workbench supports both the Linux and VxWorks development environments. Wind River tries to make the development environment tool look and feel the same regardless which OS you are targeting.

We expect that we will have (at a minimum) the compilation, static analaysis, and source code debugging support from Workbench. Hopefully we will aslo get the profileing and memory leak detection features as well.

[comwiz7]

Wind River tries to make the development environment tool look and feel the same regardless which OS you are targeting.

Wind River is not the one who makes it look and feel the same on different operating systems. Workbench is based on the cross-platform Eclipse IDE which is not made by Wind River.

[DhavalVashi]

does anyone know the system requirements to run Wind River Workbench??
we need to decide if we can use our old laptop or if we need another one.

thank you

[Ray Gitchell]

I don't know the requirments, but I think you can download and try an evaluation for free. (might not expire until after you get the real one) Check it out.

[DhavalVashi]

alright thanks :)

[neutrino15]

I can't wait until our box arrives! It's been so frustrating being forced to sit idly and wait for this stuff to arrive.

Really.. What harm would giving us a download bring? What harm would releasing FIRST-wide betas bring? :(