Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Real-Time Systems | Subject: Real-Time Hypervisor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 February 2007
Multicore processors host
two operating systems
Software exploits multicore processors to simultaneously host real-time and general purpose operating systems
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New from Real-Time Systems (RTS), Real-Time Hypervisor allows an RTOS, such as 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 breakthrough technology uses the advantages of modern multicore processors where each core may be assigned a separate operating system.
RTS expects this product to find wide use in industrial automation, medical, telecomms and 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.
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By leveraging modern multicore 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 multicore processor platforms is a logical step in embedded systems design, reducing total hardware costs while increasing reliability and system performance.
The RTS Real-Time Hypervisor is available now as a beta version.
Final customer release will be in summer 2007.
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