GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms Announces Availability of LynxOS RTOS Release 5.0
Lynx Software Technologies2008-07-23T14:11:39+00:00Support for multicore PowerPC, larger memory, SMP CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, July 23, 2008—GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms today announced that it has completed the porting of LynuxWorks™ LynxOS® real-time operating system release 5.0 to a number of the company's hardware products. This latest version of the operating system provides support for larger memory maps and symmetric multiprocessing, a key requirement for today's leading-edge applications such as signal- and sensor processing. "LynxOS release 5.0 provides new features and functionality that are much in demand for major military programs because of their increasing use of multiprocessing architectures to achieve the performance they require, and we believe we are well ahead of the industry in making it available," said Andy West, Product Manager, SBC Software at GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms. "We have been working closely with LynuxWorks over the past several months prior to official availability of this new release in order to deliver our combined hardware-software offering that meets those requirements." Release 5.0 of LynxOS provides a number of key new capabilities, including support for the latest PowerPC® multicore 8641 processor which is at the heart [...]