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News Release from: Real-Time Systems | Subject: Hypervisor software
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 February 2007
Real-Time Hypervisor software announced
New Real-Time Hypervisor software allows safe, parallel and independent deployment of multiple operating systems on single hardware platforms while preserving hard real-time behaviour
Real-Time Systems (RTS), a leader in real-time software development, today announced their Real-Time Hypervisor software The software enables real-time operating systems (RTOS), such a Wind River VxWorks, to run simultaneously with a general purpose operating system (GPOS), for example Linux, on a single hardware platform while ensuring real-time behaviour of the RTOS
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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This breakthrough technology utilizes the advantages of modern multi-core processors where each core may be assigned a separate operating system.
RTS expects this product to find wide use in industrial automation, medical, telecom as well as in military markets.
Many of today's embedded applications simultaneously require hard real-time performance, data processing, visualisation as well as seamless connectivity to the enterprise.
Unless so called "Real-Time Extensions" meet all specified requirements, multiple hardware platforms are necessary to safely and independently host the GPOS alongside an RTOS.
By leveraging modern multi-core hardware architectures like the Intel Core Duo Processors, the RTS Real-Time Hypervisor enables safe and independent operation by allocating processor cores, memory and devices to individual operating systems.
Users can specify the boot sequence and even reboot one operating system while the other remains in full operation.
In order to facilitate communication between operating systems, a configurable User-Shared Memory as well as a TCP/IP based virtual network driver is supplied as part of the RTS solution.
Deployment of multiple operating systems on multi-core processor platforms is a logical step in embedded systems design, reducing total hardware costs while increasing reliability and system performance.
A version of the RTS Real-Time Hypervisor, executing Linux in parallel with VxWorks and deployed on the congatec "conga-X945" Intel Core Duo processor based embedded computer module, is being showcased at Embedded World Exhibition and Conference in Nuremberg Germany (Feb 13-15, 2007).
The RTS Real-Time Hypervisor is available as beta-version now.
Final customer release will be in summer 2007.
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