Editing VxWorks (section)

==Features==

Core features of the OS include:<ref name="amp"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=8881 |title=Wind River Releases 64-Bit VxWorks RTOS |publisher=Windriver.com |access-date=2011-11-18 |archive-date=October 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028203244/http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=8881 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.opengroup.org/ POSIX] Certification Register</ref><ref>[http://www-cdfonline.fnal.gov/daq/computing/vxworks/filesystems.html Filesystems] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140620223956/http://www-cdfonline.fnal.gov/daq/computing/vxworks/filesystems.html |date=June 20, 2014 }} in VxWorks, CDF online, Fermi Labs</ref>

* [[computer multitasking|Multitasking]] [[kernel (operating system)|kernel]] with [[Preemption (computing)#Preemptive multitasking|preemptive]] and [[Round-robin scheduling|round-robin]] [[scheduling (computing)|scheduling]] and fast [[interrupt]] response
* Native 64-bit operating system (only one 64-bit architecture supported: [[x86-64]]). Data model: [[64-bit#64-bit data models|LP64]]
* User-mode applications ("Real-Time Processes", or RTP) isolated from other user-mode applications as well as the kernel via [[memory protection]] mechanisms
* [[Symmetric multiprocessing|SMP]], [[Asymmetric multiprocessing|AMP]] and mixed mode multiprocessing support
* Error handling framework
* [[Bluetooth]], [[USB]], CAN protocols, Firewire IEEE 1394, BLE, L2CAP, Continua stack, health device profile
* Binary, counting, and [[mutual exclusion]] [[Semaphore (programming)|semaphores]] with [[priority inheritance]]
* Local and distributed [[message queue]]s
* [[POSIX|POSIX PSE52]] certified conformity in user-mode execution environment {{Citation needed|date=August 2018}}
* [[File system]]s: High Reliability File System (HRFS), [[File Allocation Table|FAT]]-based file system (DOSFS), [[Network File System (protocol)|Network File System]] (NFS), and TFFS
* Dual-mode [[IPv6]] networking stack with IPv6 Ready Logo certification
* Memory protection including real-time processes (RTPs), error detection and reporting, and IPC
* Multi-OS messaging using TIPC and Wind River multi-OS IPC
* Symbolic debugging

In March 2014 Wind River introduced VxWorks 7, emphasizing scalability, security, safety, connectivity, graphics, and virtualization.<ref name="joab1"/><ref name="joab2"/><ref name="mod">Wind River Reinvents the [http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=12641%20www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=12641 Real-Time Operating System for the Internet of Things] Windriver.com,</ref> The following lists some of the release 7 updates.<ref name="64bitWBvert"/><ref name="star"/><ref name = "iTERS"/><ref name="joab1"/> More information can be found on the [http://www.windriver.com/products/vxworks/index.html Wind Rivers VxWorks] website.

* Modular, componentized architecture using a layered build system with the ability to update each layer of code independently
* VxWorks microkernel (a full RTOS that can be as small as 20 KB)
* Security features such as digitally-signed modules ([[X.509]]), encryption, password management, ability to add/delete users at runtime
* SHA-256 [[hashing algorithm]] as the default password hashing algorithm 
* Human machine interface with Vector Graphics, and Tilcon user interface (UI)
* Graphical user interface (GUI): [[OpenVG]] stack, [[Open GL]], Tilcon UI, Frame Buffer Driver, EV Dev Interface
* Updated configuration interfaces for VxWorks Source Build VSB projects and VxWorks Image Projects
* Single authentication control used for [[Telnet]], [[SSH]], [[FTP]], and [[rlogin]] [[Daemon (computing)|daemons]] 
* Connectivity with Bluetooth and [[SocketCAN]] protocol stacks
* Inclusion of MIPC File System (MFS) and MIPC Network Device (MND) 
* Networking features with 64-bit support including Wind River MACsec, Wind River's implementation of IEEE 802.1A, [[Point-to-Point Protocol]] (PPP) over L2TP, PPP over [[virtual local area network]] (VLAN) and Diameter secure key storage 
* New Wind River Workbench 4 for VxWorks 7 integrated development environment with new system analysis tools
* Wind River Diab Compiler 5.9.4; Wind River GNU Compiler 4.8; Intel C++ Compiler 14 and Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) 8