XPedite7674 supports LynxSecure Safety Bundle for Intel Multi-core Processorsto deliver integrated hardware/software IMA development Middleton, Wisconsin and San Jose, California, 25th July 2018 – Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES) today announced the integration of its secure-by-design XPedite7674 board with the LynxSecure Safety Bundle (LSB) from Lynx Software Technologies, the world leader in open, mixed criticality and MILS system development. The integration delivers an ideal platform for 2nd generation IMA development. LSB is an open system architecture solution that unlocks the potential of multi-core processors such as the Intel® Xeon® D to deliver 2nd generation Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA). Lynx and X-ES have created a Board Support Package (BSP) for LSB on XPedite7674, a family of rugged single-board computers for military and aerospace embedded computing applications offering up to 16 processor cores and extended-temperature support, designed with X-ES’ SecureCOTStm technology. Aaron Lindner, Director of Engineering at Extreme Engineering Solutions said, “The announcement by Lynx of the LynxSecure Safety Bundle represents an exciting shift in avionics system design, reducing the time, cost, and design risk associated with developing, certifying, and sustaining mixed criticality avionics designs [...]

San Jose, California, 24 July 2018 – Concurrent Technologies, a leading supplier of processor solutions for demanding environments, has partnered with Lynx Software Technologies to provide solutions for applications requiring a secure virtualized environment.  The LynxSecure Separation Kernel Hypervisor enables simultaneous operation of general purpose and real-time operating systems whilst meeting the security needs of the US Department of Defense.  It is particularly suitable for use on Concurrent Technologies’ rugged server TR C4x/msd and TR G4x/msd boards, that are available with 12-core Intel® Xeon® processor D-1500 and up to 64GBytes of DDR4 ECC memory. These boards, in conjunction with LynxSecure hypervisor technology, are suitable for high performance computing tasks that are common in ground and vehicle based military applications.  By having sufficient compute and memory resources, each processor board can run several self-contained, secure guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux and real-time operating systems such as LynxOS and LynxOS-178. Glen Fawcett, CEO of Concurrent Technologies Plc, commented: “Our Intel® processor based boards have hardware virtualization capabilities and by partnering with Lynx Software Technologies, our customers can take advantage of these features to create solutions [...]

San Jose, CA; Salisbury, UK, 19 July 2018, UK based flight control specialists Callen-Lenz and California’s Lynx Software Technologies, the world leader in open, mixed criticality and secure system development, today announce a strategic teaming to address the fast-developing Air Mobility, Personal Air Vehicle and Certified Unmanned Air System markets around the globe. Lynx’s LynxSecure Safety Bundle (LSB) and Callen-Lenz’ development of flight control and vehicle management systems for unmanned and optionally manned aircraft together provide a solution to rapid development of multi-core based systems that offer critical SWaP-C (size, weight, power and cost) benefits. The system software architecture enables the rapid refresh of co-resident non-safety critical modules without affecting the overall safety certification. In the near future, people will be carried in flying cars and large packages will be delivered by drones over the heads of the public. Developers of both types of vehicle will need to resolve the same technical and social challenges. The electronic systems that control them must be shown to be suitably safe, and the public will also demand the capabilities that they now have as standard [...]

Launches the LynxSecure Safety Bundle for Intel Multi-core Processors redefining system development flexibility for Integrated Modular Avionics San Jose, California, 18th June 2018 – Lynx Software Technologies, the world leader in open, mixed criticality and MILS system development, today announces the LynxSecure Safety Bundle for Intel multi-core processors. The LynxSecure Safety Bundle is an open system architecture solution that unlocks the potential of multi-core to deliver 2nd generation IMA*. The LynxSecure Safety Bundle (LSB) integrates the complete range of system development services for platform suppliers to build, deploy and sustain their IMA platform. It enables system integrators to leverage modern multi-core hardware to significantly reduce SWaP (size weight and power) by consolidating multiple Line Replaceable Units (LRUs) onto a single platform. Importantly, it enables an open development capability in which any bare metal, Linux or other RTOS or OS-based system module or application can reside in a single multi-core time and space partitioned system safely and securely. It thus provides system integrators with maximum flexibility to create competitive supply chains that don’t impose the unnecessary cost burden of safe system integration when [...]

No OS Patches Required San Jose, California, Friday 13 April 2018 – Lynx Software Technologies, a market leader in high assurance and safe system development, is demonstrating LynxSecure, the only endpoint security solution that provably separates protected enclaves from user domains for the first time on a secure laptop at the RSA Conference, April 16-20 2018. LynxSecure is a true high assurance separation kernel virtualization technology with a decentralized approach ensuring that each guest computing environment is self-sufficient and obviating the need for the kernel to provide global application services. LynxSecure’s unique separation implementation meant that LynxSecure was immune to Meltdown, where the side channel attack would otherwise be able to derive access to kernel and guest private memory as a result of central service oriented kernel designs. John Blevins, Director of Products at Lynx Software Technologies, pointed out that: “Detection is not protection. For critical corporate computing environments, patching after an attack is not enough and secure separation is the only option. With a foundation in advanced military and avionics products, LynxSecure is the ideal secure separation solution for critical corporate [...]

Nuremberg, Germany, 27 February 2018 – Lynx Software Technologies, a world leader in safe and secure systems development, and ETAS, a leader in innovative embedded software solutions for the automotive industry, today announced that, together with Robert Bosch GmbH, they are jointly working to provide the safe and secure hypervisor foundation for the ETAS RTA-VRTE platform software solution incorporating the AUTOSAR Adaptive Platform standard. RTA-VRTE supports the next generation of cross-domain and vehicle computer ECUs being introduced in upcoming vehicles. ETAS is offering an early access package for the RTA-VRTE platform including training and consulting to help users get started quickly. Lynx and ETAS first announced their collaboration in March 2017 at the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg. Under this developing partnership, ETAS has added the LynxSecure Separation Kernel Hypervisor to its automotive software stack, for significantly enhanced ECU and vehicle computer security and safe system separation for the next generation of domain controllers and vehicle computer ECUs. Nigel Tracey, Head of RTA Solutions at ETAS, commented, “We are delighted to announce the first tangible fruits of our partnership with Lynx after [...]

Meltdown-proof separation kernel hypervisor ported to NXP S32V Nuremberg, Germany, 26 February 2018 – Lynx Software Technologies, a market leader in secure virtualisation, is accelerating the development of secure ADAS vision and machine learning solutions in automotive, transportation and industrial applications. It announced today that LynxSecure 6.0, the latest version of its award-winning Separation Kernel Hypervisor has been ported to the NXP S32V, one of the industry’s most popular platforms for autonomous machine vision applications. Commenting, John Blevins, Director of Products at Lynx Software Technologies said, “The NXP S32V is a dedicated solution for vision processing and machine learning which has been widely adopted by our automotive and industrial customers. Successful development of fully autonomous level-5 vehicles will depend not only on the performance of the processor, but also on the security and integrity of the system and the data that it uses. Lynx is proud to offer LynxSecure, the industry’s most secure real time hypervisor, on one of the leading processor platforms for ADAS and other embedded vision applications.” Nigel Tracey, Head of RTA Solutions at ETAS, a leader in innovative [...]

Meltdown Schmeltdown, high assurance design of LynxSecure is affirmed San Jose, USA, 22 nd January 2018 – Lynx Software Technologies, a market leader in high assurance and safe system development, today confirmed that both its ARM and Intel LynxSecure customers’ are protected from Meltdown, the infamous hardware vulnerability that has exposed almost every other operating system based computer system on the planet. LynxSecure is a true high assurance separation kernel virtualization technology founded on a unique robust design. Alternative to traditional centralized resource and service oriented designs seen in most operating systems and hypervisors, LynxSecure provides a decentralized approach. One where each guest computing environment is self-sufficient. The autonomy of each guest environment obviates the need for the kernel to provide global services. It is by the nature of the unique distributed autonomous design approach LynxSecure was immune to Meltdown, where attacker processes/VMs were able to derive kernel and guest private memory as a result of central service oriented kernel designs that required access to all guest memory. Commenting, John Blevins, Director of Products at Lynx Software Technologies said, “The fact that [...]

Latest version of LynxSecure now available on the Arm® architecture Live demonstration on Xilinx® Zynq® Ultrascale+™ MPSoC at Arm TechCon October 24th 2017, Arm TechCon, Santa Clara, CA.   Lynx Software Technologies, a market leader in secure virtualization, is announcing the release of LynxSecure 6.0, the latest version of its award-winning Separation Kernel Hypervisor. This new version brings LynxSecure to the Arm® architecture for the first time, providing military-grade security coupled with highly efficient virtualization to multi-core Arm® SoC-based designs.  The initial port for LynxSecure 6.0 will be available on the Xilinx® Zynq® Ultrascale+™ MPSoC, and this will be on display at the Lynx booth (#516) at Arm TechCon. LynxSecure 6.0 adds support for the Armv8-A architecture to existing Intel x86 support, offering both the virtualization and hardware protection capabilities that allow LynxSecure to offer real-time performance while maintaining the highest levels of security. LynxSecure supports the 64-bit architecture of Armv8-A, and allows for both 32 and 64-bit virtualized guest OSes to run without modification.  LynxSecure fully supports multi-core Arm SoCs by offering core-to-guest OS affinity, support for multi-core guest OSes, and core [...]