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 [...]

Arun Subbarao, VP of Engineering, to present on panel at EE Times Connected Devices Virtual Conference SAN JOSÉ, Calif., November 12, 2009 — LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, today announced its participation in the EE Times Connected Devices Virtual Conference: Entering a New Age of Embedded Design. Arun Subbarao, VP of Engineering at LynuxWorks, will be contributing security expertise on the panel "Networking/Security: Keeping Hackers and Malware Out" to discuss potential threats and attacks on different types of connected embedded systems. The panelists will address the current and future implications for embedded software developers, along with the tools, techniques and technology that organizations need to prevent these threats. LynuxWorks has been addressing security in the embedded industry for the last five years. Its LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor has been designed from the ground up for the highest levels of security, and its LynxOS-SE real-time operating system can be used for medium-assurance systems when used standalone, as well as high-assurance systems when para-virtualized with LynxSecure. The panel will be conducted Thursday, November 12, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., Oct. 19, 2009—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that FFI (the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment) has selected LynxSecure in support of a program in the field of classified information handling and information flow between security domains. FFI selected LynxSecure due to its unique ability to run Windows® as a fully virtualized guest operating system in a secure partition on an Intel® x86-family processor. According to Anders Eggen, Project Manager, FFI, "For some military scenarios high-assurance systems are required, and products conforming to the MILS architecture are promising platforms on which to implement critical security functions. FFI will use LynxSecure to explore the MILS-based technology and to perform research and prototyping activities to examine its ability to solve some of the security challenges raised in the implementation of a future Network Enabled Capability (NEC)." According to Hamid Mirab, Managing Director for LynuxWorks, Europe, "LynuxWorks' LynxSecure offers FFI a compact, efficient separation kernel and embedded hypervisor that allows them to consolidate multiple applications on a single, high-performance multicore Intel processor, taking advantage of LynxSecure's MILS [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., October 26, 2009 — LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, and Empress Software, embedded database developer central and home of the Empress Embedded Database, announce immediate availability of Empress Ultra Embedded Database v10.20 on the latest LynxOS® RTOS 5.0. Empress Embedded Database and LynxOS RTOS (real-time operating system) are the foundation for diverse embedded systems with hard real-time requirements from mission-critical military and aerospace applications, to advanced medical systems and diagnostic equipment, to high-tech industrial and process control systems. The LynxOS RTOS 5.0 is the superior foundation for sophisticated real-time embedded systems, built upon more than two decades of RTOS experience. With LynxOS RTOS, developers can build applications and code that meet the most stringent military- and commercial-grade requirements for real-time mission critical applications. Code developed for LynxOS uses open standards and common formats like those found in Linux®, POSIX®, and UNIX® systems, resulting in faster time-to-market and long-term investment protection through open standards-based development. Empress Embedded Database is an advanced, full-featured database engine specializing in embedded systems data management technology. With high-performance, small footprint and a [...]