Demonstration systems include a standard laptop, a 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor reference platform and a network malware security system SAN FRANCISCO, CA, RSA Conference 2011—February 14, 2011—As a new participant to the RSA Conference, LynuxWorks™, Inc. will demonstrate its LynxSecure high-performance, secure virtualization platform. The LynuxWorks platform allows multiple guest operating systems (OSes) and applications to run safely and independently on a single device. Originally built for security-critical military, medical and avionics embedded applications; this market-leading technology has now been extended to support the Enterprise. The demonstration systems in the LynuxWorks booth (#240) include a standard laptop with secure Internet access, a reference platform running the latest 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor and the ValidEdge Network Malware Security (NMS) system running LynxSecure (booth #241). According to Robert Day, VP of Marketing at LynuxWorks, "At the RSA Conference we are showing that it is now possible to run multiple copies of the Windows OS, each held in their own secure enclave, running at near native-speed on a LynxSecure-based endpoint. It is now possible to secure corporate sensitive applications and data on a [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif.—February 1, 2011—International medical technology group Elekta is basing its new generations of equipment on LynuxWorks LynxOS-SE RTOS to get to market quickly with systems that deliver high levels of functionality, fault tolerance and safety. "A key factor of our development strategy is to accelerate completion of new products," explains Adrian Smith, Product System Engineer (Linear Accelerators) of Elekta. "Hence it is important that we can quickly port proven software applications to a variety of products to enhance reliability and reduce time to market." Elekta specializes in systems and solutions for radiotherapy and radiosurgery, for the treatment of cancer and brain disorders. The Elekta Synergy® image-guided radiation therapy system uses high-resolution imaging taken in 3D and at the time of treatment. By streamlining the processes of assessing patients and beginning treatment, surgeons are able to commence treatment directly. For its new treatment system, and subsequent generations of products, Elekta sought a higher performing solution with hard partitioning that could allow other applications to run concurrently without interfering with each other. According to Adrian Smith, "LynuxWorks provided us with a stable, [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif.—January 31, 2011—Fritz Technologies Corporation, the prime contractor for a U.S. Government high-assurance program, has selected LynuxWorks™, Inc as a strategic partner and will use their LynxSecure 4.0 product as a foundation for their Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) approach. This effort includes developing an environment where servers and applications can process data on different classification levels while allowing data-sharing between a fixed number of information nodes. According to Bobbi-Michelle Wehrfritz, CEO and Founder of Fritz Technologies Corporation, "Using standard hardware and the LynxSecure Separation Kernel and Embedded Hypervisor, we will be able to demonstrate a unique environment for running secure multiple guest operating systems and high-assurance cross-domain data sharing." "The award-winning LynxSecure delivers an incredible performance breakthrough in multi-core processor and virtualization technologies," remarked Gurjot Singh the CEO for LynuxWorks, Inc. "LynxSecure maintains the highest levels of security while providing access to multiple classifications of information maintained in separate domains on a single workstation or server and also allowing controlled data-sharing between the domains." LynxSecure 4.0 provides the most flexible virtualization solution for use in Intel® x86-based secure [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif.—January 24, 2011—LynuxWorks™ today announced that it has appointed Elesia, suppliers of open-architecture real-time and embedded components and systems, as its distributor for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Elesia is an established distributor for LynuxWorks in Italy, and has recently established an operation in Germany. Under the agreement, Elesia will now support customers in Central Europe with LynuxWorks' LynxOS® family of RTOS, LynxSecure hypervisor and BlueCat® Linux® alongside its in-house rugged hardware and software on such as Compact PCI, PCI / PMC, VME and Multibus platforms. Commenting on the appointment, Hamid Mirab, LynuxWorks' managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said: "We have worked successfully with Elesia for many years in Southern Europe—so their new Munich facility is a natural choice for a central European partner. Elesia's technical know-how is unparalleled—as is their knowledge of the transportation, multimedia, communications, medical, safety and defence markets." Tomas von Lüpke, newly appointed to head Elesia Central Europe, added: "LynuxWorks' LynxOS has proved itself a world-class RTOS and has become Elesia's operating system of choice in a broad range of applications. Its ultra-reliability, POSIX® [...]

LAS VEGAS, NV, Consumer Electronics Show—January 5, 2011—In conjunction with the launch of the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor family at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, announced LynxSecure 4.0 support of the new Intel Core i7 and i5 processor families. LynxSecure is a separation kernel and embedded hypervisor that provides an environment in which multiple guest operating systems and their applications can execute at the same time, in their own virtual partitions, without compromising security, reliability or data integrity. "The 2nd Generation Intel Core i7 and Core i5 processors deliver an incredible performance breakthrough by utilizing the latest innovations in multi-core processor and graphics technologies," said Robert Day, the VP of Marketing for LynuxWorks, Inc. "The multi-core and virtualization support that LynxSecure offers for these next-generation Intel processors helps maximize the performance and security of applications running on a wide selection of virtualized guest operating systems." "By supporting the latest Intel Core i7 and i5 processors at launch, LynuxWorks continues to offer developers the opportunity to utilize the advanced [...]

LynuxWorks demonstrates time- and space-partitioned secure RTOS for high-performance real-time mission-critical systems SAN JOSÉ, CA, November 9, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, is showcasing its LynxOS®-SE real-time operating system running on the ARM® Cortex-A8 processor at the ARM Technology Conference, November 9-11, 2010, at the Santa Clara Conference Center, CA. LynxOS-SE RTOS for the ARM Cortex-A8 processor was ported first to the Texas Instruments OMAP 3 platform. Designed for portable and mobile applications, OMAP 3 is the first family of multimedia application processors to integrate the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 processor. According to Robert Day, vice president of marketing at LynuxWorks, "The combination of the TI OMAP 3 and ARM Cortex-A8-based platforms are well suited for low-power, high-performance mobile applications such as Software Defined Radio (SDR) and secure medical systems. The ARM Technology Conference is a perfect forum for the demonstration of LynxOS-SE on this popular OMAP platform." Designed to meet the most stringent requirements for secure real-time mission-critical applications, LynxOS-SE allows developers to quickly benefit from an out-of-the-box hardware/software solution that is optimized for the harshest environments. [...]

HERNDON, VA, November 9, 2010—Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS), provider of the most widely used communications middleware, today announced that its ORBexpress® product now extends support to LynuxWorks™ LynxOS®-SE real-time operating system on the ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor. The Cortex-A8 is the most power-efficient processor ever developed by ARM, with extremely high performance. ORBexpress provides a high-performance communication infrastructure, enabling real-time and embedded devices in heterogeneous environments to communicate seamlessly. With the lightweight, high-performance combination of ORBexpress, LynxOS-SE RTOS, and the ARM Cortex-A8, developers can achieve greater performance while improving size, weight, and power (SWAP). Developers will be able to develop very small form factor devices, like software defined radios (SDR), using the smallest communications middleware on the most power efficient ARM processor with a fast, robust operating system. LynxOS-SE is based on open standards and is designed to specifically fulfill the stringent needs of multi-threaded and multi-process applications in high-performance systems. With the release of LynxOS-SE, LynuxWorks now offers a powerful combination of POSIX and ARINC 653 compliance. Open standards promote application portability, software reuse and system interoperability, and this translates into [...]

LynxSecure highly secure virtualization technology and CoolShell blade server create a consolidated versatile platform for military applications SAN JOSÉ, Calif., MILCOM 2010, November 1, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, and Themis Computer, a leading supplier of high-performance board and system-level products for military applications, today announced that they have teamed up to demonstrate a new rugged, high-performance multi-level secure platform solution at MILCOM 2010. The companies will showcase LynuxWorks' LynxSecure secure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor running on Themis' CoolShell blade server. LynxSecure is a highly secure virtualization solution that utilizes the CoolShell's hardware-virtualization technology and multiple processor cores to provide a versatile platform for secure environments. "The new reality of network-centric operations requires us to move with agility between the need to protect sensitive data and the practical necessity to share essential situational information in real time," said Gurjot Singh, CEO and president at LynuxWorks. "Military operations can now have access to multiple environments on a single system, which is immensely valuable for collaboration." LynxSecure makes it possible to securely run multiple guest operating systems and [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., October 26, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a leading supplier of embedded software technology to the aerospace and defense market, will be premiering its latest secure virtualization technology and high-performance safety-critical software at MILCOM in San Jose, CA, October 31- November 3, 2010. Both the LynxSecure virtualization technology, designed to meet the highest levels of security certification, and the LynxOS®-178 safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS), certified to DO-178B/C level A, will be demonstrated live on real-world systems in the LynuxWorks booth. The technology being showcased includes the award-winning LynxSecure Separation Kernel and Embedded Hypervisor offering ultimate security without compromising functionality: Wave Systems self-encrypting drives in a secure virtual environment running on a standard laptop Themis' CoolShell rugged blade server securely running multiple guest operating systems (OSes) High-Assurance Cross-Domain Data Guard application, ported from a single dedicated hardware chipset to a high-performance multi-core system running LynxSecure. Also being demonstrated live at the show is the LynxOS-178 safety-critical commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) RTOS for hard real-time performance and certification to DO-178B/C with full Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX®) compliance: Multifunction displays with Presagis OpenGL solution Flight [...]