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Subject: RE: Wind River Pitch
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:44:23 -0800
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From: "Brian Stark" <brian.stark@onstor.com>
To: "Jay Michlin" <jay.michlin@onstor.com>,
	"Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: "Jerry Lopatin" <jerry.lopatin@onstor.com>,
	"Tim Gardner" <tim.gardner@onstor.com>

Since Wind River is a preferred third party supplier for Broadcom, I
think the meeting will be worthwhile.  I'm on vacation next Tuesday and
won't be able to attend, but I'm going to see if Warren can join.


Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Michlin=20
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:29 PM
> To: Brian Stark; Andy Sharp
> Cc: Jerry Lopatin; Tim Gardner
> Subject: RE: Wind River Pitch
>=20
> Brian,
>=20
> As I said, I don't particularly expect we'll have use for=20
> Wind River, now or ever, but thought it worth listening to=20
> their pitch. Feel free to attend or not, and if you hear=20
> nothing from me after the meeting you can assume that the=20
> Wind River guy had nothing of new interest to say.
>=20
> jay=20
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Stark
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:12 PM
> To: Andy Sharp; Jay Michlin
> Cc: Jerry Lopatin; Tim Gardner
> Subject: RE: Wind River Pitch
>=20
> All of the SiByte processors support the EJTAG interface, and=20
> we have a Corelis debugger that takes advantage of it.  With=20
> the tools from Broadcom, this essentially provides a logic=20
> analyzer view into the chip and has proven to be quite=20
> useful.  We also have an ICE from some other vendor, but we=20
> didn't use it that much.  Since the PROMs are socketed on the=20
> protos, it was easy enough to just remove and reprogram them=20
> until in-circuit upgrades were supported.  For Cougar, my=20
> plan is to continue using EJTAG and we can also support an=20
> ICE if other folks want it.
>=20
> From my previous conversations with Broadcom, I'm pretty sure=20
> that Windriver supports the full line of SiBytes.  I believe=20
> they have Linux available that runs on multiple cores.
>=20
>=20
> Brian
> =20
>=20
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Sharp [mailto:andy.sharp@onstor.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:11 PM
> > To: Jay Michlin
> > Cc: Brian Stark; Jerry Lopatin; Tim Gardner
> > Subject: Re: Wind River Pitch
> >=20
> > I'm familiar with the Windriver stuff from 2wire.  I had=20
> them in there=20
> > trying to get their stuff up on our board/toolchain.
> >  I deemed it to be pretty good stuff.  It's a rare vendor=20
> product like=20
> > this that gets that coveted rating from me.
> >=20
> > I'm definitely interested for the cougar work.  It wouldn't hurt to=20
> > find out if they support the sibyte quad-core processor,=20
> and if they=20
> > don't, to let them know to get started on it.  I'm not sure that we=20
> > would want to bother with it for Bobcat.  If they have=20
> anything that=20
> > would work for our embedded processors, I would think that=20
> that would=20
> > be very useful as well. I don't need to tell you how useful their=20
> > debugging tools would be for bring up work if they support the=20
> > processor.  Brian
> > -- would we have an ICE setup or JTAG or both?  I know the=20
> WR product=20
> > has a standard JTAG interface.
> >=20
> > Cheers,
> >=20
> > a
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:09:55 -0800 "Jay Michlin"
> > <jay.michlin@onstor.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > > Hello all,
> > >=20
> > > I received a marketing call from Wind River today asking=20
> to come in=20
> > > and present their product line. I don't know of any immediate=20
> > > application here for what they offer, but information is=20
> usually a=20
> > > good thing, so I agreed to invite them here to present.
> > Their rep will
> > > visit next Tuesday, November 21, at 11:00 am.
> > >=20
> > > As far as they are concerned, they are presenting only to
> > me since I
> > > didn't want to commit anyone else's time. But if you're=20
> interested,=20
> > > please let me know, and you're welcome to come. Right now
> > the meeting
> > > is in my office, but if others are interested I'll get a=20
> conference=20
> > > room.
> > >=20
> > > jay
> > >=20
> >=20
