LynuxWorks' LynxSecure 4.0 Support for New Intel Embedded Platforms

LynuxWorks Inc.announced availability of LynxSecure 4.0 on the latest hardware platforms fromIntel^®. The Core™ i7 family has been widely used in the desktop and laptopmarket, and now the quad-core versions of the processor are available forembedded designs.

Theavailability of LynxSecure on the latest quad core processors from Intel allowslarge GUI based OSes such as Windows or Linux to securely co-reside with moretraditional embedded real-time OS solutions such as the LynxOS family of RTOSesfrom LynuxWorks. The advanced software virtualization in LynxSecure isintegrated with the hardware virtualization technologies, such as vt-x andvt-d, on the Intel processors to give native performance and functionality ofall the OSes that are running as "guests."

Another keyfeature that LynxSecure offers is the ability to run guest OSes that have SymmetricMulti-processing (SMP) capabilities. The new quad-core devices from Intel makesthis feature a reality by allowing one of the guest OSes to run across multiplecores, offering performance never seen before in a virtualized embedded system.For embedded systems that require a sophisticated user interface coupled withnetworked connectivity, and also hard real-time data response, the combinationof LynxSecure with the quad-core Intel core-i7 processor allows all of thisfunctionality to be easily developed, or migrated from existing systems, givingan unprecedented development window for the next generation of complex embeddedsystems.

Immediatelyavailable, LynxSecure 4.0 provides a seamless migration path for LynuxWorkscustomers whose Linux- and POSIX^®-based applications can now run on virtualizedRed Hat Linux and LynxOS family environments within LynxSecure partitions, andfor customers who have developed using native Linux or Windows for theirembedded applications.