LynxSecure 4.0 introduces symmetric multiprocessing guest operating system support, offering new performance highs when running multiple guest operating systems on the new multicore Intel® Core™ i7 and i5 processors SAN JOSÉ, CA, Embedded Systems Conference—April 27, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure embedded software market, today announced availability of LynxSecure 4.0, its embedded virtualization solution for single and multicore processors. This new release of the award-winning LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor adds support for the Intel® Core™ i7 and i5 processor families and enables new configurations of guest operating systems to maximize the usage of these powerful processors. The combination of LynxSecure 4.0 and the Intel Core i7 will provide embedded developers across many industries the performance and security enhancements they require for their next generation of products. Widely used to develop applications in major military programs to the highest levels of security, LynxSecure's highly secure virtualization solution is equally applicable for industries such as networking, consumer, industrial, medical and automotive. LynxSecure makes it possible to safely run multiple applications and different guest operating systems on a single platform [...]

LynxSecure virtualization capabilities help speed adoption of wireless technologies for critical patient care SAN JOSÉ, CA-April 27, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure embedded software market, today announced that it has combined efforts with Portwell, Inc. to deliver a proof-of-concept (PoC) wireless sensor platform for hospitals based on Intel® technology. When monitoring vital signs (such as EKG and blood oxygenation) during a patient's hospital stay, sensors must be attached to the body; frequently this results in an awkward and uncomfortable tangle of wires. To help untether patients, the PoC platform can connect to more than 25 Bluetooth wireless biometric sensors and has the ability to graphically portray patient sensor data for visual monitoring in a familiar Windows® environment. The platform uses the Portwell WADE-8067, an Intel Core™2 Duo processor-based Mini-ITX board. Running on the board, LynxSecure from LynuxWorks provides state-of-the-art software virtualization technology that makes it possible to securely run both a Linux® operating system and an unmodified Windows operating system in parallel on the platform. The PoC demonstrates a means whereby medical equipment manufacturers can quickly port legacy wired [...]

Intel® Embedded Alliance recognizes LynxSecure for utilizing Intel's virtualization technology and allowing developers to fully leverage the power of multicore architecture SAN JOSÉ, CA-April 26, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure embedded software market, is proud to announce that its LynxSecure product won the 2009 Software Innovations Award granted by the Intel Embedded Alliance. The award was presented at the Intel Embedded Alliance Worldwide Business Connection Awards dinner on March 16, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. A long-time member of the Intel Embedded Alliance, LynuxWorks received the award for its development and marketing of the LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor, which enables the execution of guest operating systems and applications in their own secure partitions. This innovative product also won the prestigious Security Category at the 2009 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Awards in London. When running on Intel's multicore processors, LynxSecure provides state-of-the-art software virtualization technology that makes it possible to securely host, in parallel, both embedded operating systems and unmodified desktop operating systems on a single platform. "The award recognizes LynuxWorks' commitment to innovation and [...]

LynuxWorks' embedded OS and General Dynamics' Information Assurance expertise come together to bring to market-leading Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) products SAN JOSÉ, CA-April 23, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure embedded software market, today announced that it has been working jointly with General Dynamics C4 Systems to accelerate the feature set of LynuxWorks LynxSecure technology and broaden its adoption into secure systems. As part of a joint development activity, engineering teams from both companies have collaborated to build the most responsive technology available to meet customer high-assurance security requirements based on the LynxSecure software separation kernel from LynuxWorks. The combination of real-time operating system (RTOS) technology and expertise from LynuxWorks, coupled with the Information Assurance knowledge and expertise from General Dynamics, has culminated in leading products and solutions for the security market. Available from LynuxWorks since 2006 as a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) product, the LynxSecure software provides the technology base for the joint development with General Dynamics. Spanning two years, the joint effort is yielding dramatic increases in computer security including the consolidation of dissimilar operating system environments that [...]

The LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor from LynuxWorks is again recognized for its unique feature set and security functionality SAN JOSÉ, CA-April 23, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that its LynxSecure separation kernel has been selected as a finalist in the Software/Embedded Tools category for the 20th Annual EDN Innovation Awards. The annual EDN Innovation Awards honor outstanding engineering professionals and products. Only products that were released between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009, were eligible. LynxSecure is the undisputed performance leader for secure embedded and desktop systems utilizing hardware-virtualization technology (VT) and supporting multiple cores. LynxSecure 3.0, released in 2009, provides full virtualization for guest operating systems, allowing an unmodified guest operating system to be hosted simultaneously on the same hardware as real-time and para-virtualized operating systems. This means that a "hard" real-time operating system can run concurrently with a fully virtualized Windows® or para-virtualized Linux® operating system. A mid-2009 upgrade to LynxSecure 3.0 extended support for the latest versions of Microsoft® Windows, including Windows 7 and Vista. Instituted in 1990, the [...]

SAN JOSÉ, CA-April 23, 2010—Arun Subbarao, vice president of engineering at LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, will present two sessions on the latest software technology for optimizing multi-core performance, system size, weight and power (SWaP) for embedded systems on April 29. The sessions will take place at the Multicore Expo at the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley in the McEnery Convention Center, San José. Subbarao's first session, titled "Using Virtualization to Bring Desktop and Embedded Operating Systems Together," will explore architectural and use cases for software virtualization platforms. He will discuss how multiple operating systems can coexist on a single hardware system, in addition to examining performance optimizations, secure communications between operating systems, and best practices for designing embedded software applications using this new paradigm. His second session, titled "Designing Software for Multicore Systems," will provide a guide for migrating software from a unicore to multicore system and offer insights into migrating strategies for new real-time operating systems technologies. Details regarding both sessions are noted below: Thursday, April 29 at 8:15 AM Using Virtualization to Bring Desktop [...]

Laboratory's performance trials assess use of the LynxSecure separation kernel in mission-critical applications SAN JOSÉ, Calif., March 22, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that its LynxSecure separation kernel was independently tested with a series of performance tests at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), to help assess the use of separation kernels for future real-time, mission-critical systems. JHU/APL ran benchmarks on LynxSecure, using a Linux operating system as the guest. The results showed good performance and stability for LynxSecure with a range of common benchmarks, including LMbench and the iPerf networking suite. The tests also demonstrated the effectiveness of LynxSecure's multi-core performance. When used with multi-core processors, LynxSecure can run multiple operating systems and applications on each core, or bind applications and operating systems to specific cores offering the utmost flexibility in system design and performance utilization. "During our benchmark tests, we analyzed processor utilization in increasingly more complex conditions using larger loading levels," said Ed Jacques, Computer Systems Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "Even at high loading levels, [...]

LynxSecure securely runs multiple guest operating systems—including Windows®, Linux® and RTOS—on new multi-core Intel® Core™ processors SAN JOSÉ, Calif., Jan. 7, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that its LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor will support the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor family. This combination will provide embedded developers across many industries the performance and security enhancements they require for their next generation of products. The Intel Core i7 is based on 32nm process technology and features intelligent performance, power efficiency, integrated graphics and error correcting code (ECC) memory on industry-standard x86 architecture. 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. LynxSecure takes advantage of many of the key hardware features in Intel's chips to make sure that real-time performance and determinism is maintained, whilst offering near-native performance for traditional desktop operating systems such as Windows® and Linux® that run on the same platform. [...]

London, England, December 4, 2009 —LynuxWorks™ is proud to announce that its LynxSecure 3.0 won the prestigious Security Category at the 2009 Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Awards in London. The IET is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. In their citation, the judges said, "This is a genuine innovation of some importance to the cyber security arena whilst being based on proven technology. It is an evolutionary step forward and has been developed with security as a basis for the whole design. It has several innovative features and has been designed to achieve security certification, can operate with multiple levels of security, and has a credible military heritage. LynxSecure 3.0 has a significant potential market that is not easily addressed by alternative solutions. It is therefore a worthy winner of this years' award." Receiving the award, Hamid Mirab, Managing Director, EMEA, LynuxWorks, said, "We are delighted to receive this prestigious award from one of the world's [...]

EAL 4-certifiable operating system enables Lockheed Martin to meet the security and certification needs required by U.S., German and Italian governments SAN JOSÉ, Calif., December 2, 2008—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has selected LynuxWorks' LynxOS®-SE 5.0 and Luminosity 3.0.6 for the company's Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS™), which is designed to replace PATRIOT systems in the United States and Germany and Nike Hercules systems in Italy. The two software applications provide companies with a fast and easy way to create, edit, compile, manage and debug system applications. LynxOS-SE was chosen in part because it is the first and only time- and space-partitioned, real-time operating system (RTOS) capable of running POSIX®, ARINC 653 and Linux applications simultaneously. "This is the first time that LynxOS-Security Enhanced has been implemented by Lockheed Martin for one of the company's air defense systems," said Gurjot Singh, CEO, LynuxWorks. "LynxOS-SE is designed to help companies meet the stringent security needs and requirements inherent in complex systems." LynxOS-SE is a POSIX-conformant RTOS designed specifically to fulfill [...]