Support 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 [...]

SAN JOSÉ, CA, July 17, 2008—Aonix®, the provider of the PERC product line for embedded and real-time Java™ developers, announced the release of PERC Ultra 5.1 cross development and target support on the LynuxWorks™ LynxOS® Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). The port, already in use by Aonix and LynuxWorks joint customers in the military and aerospace market, is being deployed in high-availability and mission-critical programs. With the integration of the PERC Ultra 5.1 into LynxOS, customers will be able to take advantage of the latest features in both products. Committed to meeting the ongoing development needs of customers, Aonix and LynuxWorks continue to offer additional features and improvements. PERC Ultra 5.1 has improved performance and security capabilities. Included with the integration of the products, PERC Ultra 5.1 sets the name of each LynxOS thread to match the corresponding Java thread name for thread-aware tools, such as the LynuxWorks SpyKer™ embedded system trace tool. Such integration simplifies development and keeps projects on schedule. "Delivering hard real-time solutions to the mil/aero market is challenging," said Joe Wlad, Director of Certification, Marketing and Services at LynuxWorks. [...]

Embedded leader's BlueCat Linux and LynxOS RTOS provide open, reliable software for camera-based sorting machine SAN JOSÉ, Calif., June 16, 2008—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced that Accu-Sort® Systems, Inc., a world leader in industrial high-speed camera-based identification solutions, is deploying a combination of LynuxWorks' BlueCat® embedded Linux® and LynxOS®, its embedded real-time operating system (RTOS), as the software platform for Accu-Sort's new AccuVision® 6010 Long-Range Camera System (AV-6010). LynuxWorks' ability to offer both open-source and RTOS platforms, tied together by a single IDE and set of development tools, fit Accu-Sort's unique requirements for the AV-6010. Accu-Sort's AV-6010 is the latest addition to its AccuVision product line, and its camera system will serve as the new technology platform for future Accu-Sort products. A fully integrated camera-based scanning solution for postal routing, warehouse and other distribution environments, the AV-6010 offers best-in-class performance for one- and two-dimensional bar code reading, as well as support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and video coding applications. For industrial equipment makers such as Accu-Sort, LynuxWorks' flagship product, LynxOS, provides an advanced foundation for sophisticated [...]

Added focus to medical tech efforts will apply embedded leader's decades of Linux, RTOS expertise from mission-critical computing in military, avionics environments GENIE Acquisition The GENIE Acquisition Operators Console, by Tactiq Ltd., with LynuxWorks' LynxOS operating system inside, controls the GE Healthcare "MG" nuclear medicine scanner system and provides a graphical user interface for operator interaction. Nuclear Medicine Imaging System GE Healthcare's "MG" NM system is a very popular variable-geometry, dual-gamma-camera imaging system with approximately 1300 systems installed worldwide.  EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CONFERENCE, SAN JOSÉ, Calif., April 15, 2008—Building on two decades of leadership in security- and safety-critical computing, LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced broad plans to expand its efforts in the medical technology market. Its new initiative will target medical-device manufacturers, and includes broadening its ecosystem to help support these devices, and working with existing customers that use LynuxWorks' embedded real-time operating systems. The added focus on the medical device market is a logical move for LynuxWorks. Aside from already working with medical companies, LynuxWorks' core embedded operating system/hypervisor technology has been powering security- and safety-critical systems [...]

Latest support provides developers with an FAA-certifiable development platform SAN JOSÉ, Calif., April 14, 2008—LynuxWorks™ Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced the availability of its LynxOS®-178 real-time embedded operating system for the Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) (Nasdaq:AMCC) PowerPC 460EX and 460GT high-performance embedded processors. Offering low power dissipation and a small form factor, the AMCC PowerPC 460EX and 460GT solutions with LynuxWorks' support are ideal for safety-critical, high-density and power-conscious applications, such as those used in the avionics market. The LynxOS-178 RTOS is the first and only hard real-time RTCA/DO-178B/C level A operating system to offer the interoperability benefits of POSIX® with support for the ARINC 653 APplication EXecutive (APEX), and is the only RTOS to be awarded a Reusable Software Component (RSC) by the FAA. At the core of the LynxOS-178 real-time operating system is LynxOS, a mature UNIX®-style operating system (born 1988) that was designed from the start for hard real-time determinism. LynxOS-178 has been deployed in millions of safety-critical devices worldwide, including multiple military and aerospace systems certified to DO-178B/C, up to level [...]

Intel Embedded & Communications Alliance cites LynxSecure separation kernel for its exploitation of virtualization and trusted execution technology EMBEDDED WORLD 2008 EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE, NUREMBERG, Germany, and SAN JOSÉ, Calif., Feb. 26, 2008—The Intel® Embedded & Communications Alliance (Intel® ECA) recognized LynuxWorks' commitment to innovation by presenting the embedded software leader with the alliance's 2007 award for Overall Technology Alignment for a Software Provider at the recent 2007 Intel® ECA Congress. LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, received the award for its support of the Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT) and the Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (TET). A long-time member of the alliance, LynuxWorks received the award for its development and marketing of the LynxSecure separation kernel, and its support of VT and TET, which enables the execution of guest operating systems and applications in their own secure partitions. "This technology alignment award from Intel® is a validation of our long-time commitment to stay on the cutting edge of embedded and enabling technologies such as virtualization and hypervisors," said Robert Day, Vice president of marketing, LynuxWorks. "LynuxWorks has a long tradition [...]

LynxSecure 2.0 enables concurrent execution of different OS environments on today's powerful multicore processors EMBEDDED WORLD 2008 EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE, NUREMBERG, Germany, and SAN JOSÉ, Calif., Feb. 26, 2008—Previewing its latest innovation in secure embedded computing, LynuxWorks™ Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today unveiled LynxSecure 2.0, its next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor. Designed to take advantage of today's and tomorrow's advanced hardware architectures, LynxSecure 2.0 virtualizes the underlying hardware to enable multiple different operating systems (OS) to coexist on the same platform. This ability to consolidate heterogeneous OS environments enhances the ability to offer a diverse array of applications on a single processor, which reduces hardware costs and allows for easier reuse of legacy software. Embedded hypervisors allow for traditionally non-real-time operating systems (RTOS) such as Linux or Windows to co-exist on the same hardware as a more traditional RTOS, such as LynuxWorks' flagship product, LynxOS. A separation kernel's primary function is to partition system resources among those "guest" operating systems, sequester data and control the flow of information among partitions. Because LynxSecure's separation kernel and hypervisor are small [...]