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 [...]

LynxSecure offers multi-operating system support that takes advantage of Intel's new embedded quad-core Core i7 processors BOSTON, MA, Embedded Systems Conference—September 21, 2010 —LynuxWorks™, a leader in secure virtualization technology, today announced availability of LynxSecure 4.0 on the latest hardware platforms from Intel®. The Core™ i7 family has been widely used in the desktop and laptop market, and now the quad-core versions of the processor are available for embedded designs. LynxSecure 4.0 provides the most flexible virtualization solution for use in embedded systems. Built from the ground up, and now in its 4th generation, LynxSecure offers the combination of security with functionality, allowing embedded designers to use the latest software and hardware technologies to build complex multi-operating systems (OSes). The availability of LynxSecure on the latest quad-core processors from Intel allows large GUI-based OSes such as Windows® or Linux® to securely co-reside with more traditional embedded real-time OS solutions such as the LynxOS family of RTOSes from LynuxWorks. The advanced software virtualization in LynxSecure is integrated with the hardware-virtualization technologies, such as vt-x and vt-d, on the Intel processors to give native [...]

LEE, MA and SAN JOSÉ, CA—September 14, 2010—Wave Systems Corp. (NASDAQ:WAVX) and LynuxWorks™ today announced their collaboration on the use of a self-encrypting hard drive to provide data-at-rest protection alongside the LynxSecure separation kernel and hypervisor securely running multiple operating systems on a personal computer (PC). This capability is significant because it solves the complexity and performance issues typically associated with encrypting data on virtual machines running different operating systems. The demonstration takes place this week at the National Security Agency's (NSA) Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition (Orlando, September 14-16) and again at the Embedded Systems Conference (Boston, September 21-22). Virtualization allows information technology (IT) to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine. Each virtual machine shares the resources of a single computer across multiple environments, allowing different operating systems and multiple applications to run simultaneously. Although virtualization technology isn't new, it's becoming increasingly viable as computing becomes more powerful and disk capacity increases. Secure virtualization helps to partition traditionally unsecure environments like Internet browsing from corporate applications and data that are housed on the same PC. The use of [...]

Live demo features LynxOS-178 safety-certified RTOS for UAVs and LynxSecure virtualization technology for ground control stations SAN JOSÉ, CA—August 3, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, announced today that it will demonstrate its LynxOS®-178 and LynxSecure safety-critical and secure software products for use in next-generation unmanned aerial vehicles at AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America 2010. The AUVSI 2010 conference, sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles International, is the largest annual event focusing on international ground, air, and maritime unmanned systems and takes place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, August 24-27, 2010. Safety Certification for NextGen UAVs Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used in military and security operations. However, there is growing interest in a broad range of uses such as aerial photography, surveying land and crops, monitoring forest fires and environmental conditions, and protecting borders and ports against intruders. The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), responsible for regulation of commercial aircraft, is developing new policies, procedures, and approval processes to accommodate commercial operation of UAVs. NextGen, the FAA's on-going and wide-ranging transformation of the United [...]

LynxOS-SE time- and space-partitioned secure RTOS for ARM Cortex-A8 processor enables power efficient, high-performance real-time mission-critical systems SAN JOSÉ, CA—July 13, 2010—LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the embedded software market, today announced that its LynxOS-SE operating system supports the ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor, with the first port on 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. "We are seeing increased demand from our aerospace and defense customers for low-power/high-performance processor support. Particularly, there is interest in the ARM processor-based platforms which are ideally suited for mobile applications such as software-defined radio and man-wearable systems," said Robert Day, vice president of marketing, LynuxWorks. "Similarly, customers in other segments such as medical also need the utmost security, performance, and power efficiency for applications such as patient monitoring and analysis systems." LynxOS-SE 5.1 is the first and only time- and space-partitioned RTOS with the ability to run POSIX® and ARINC 653 applications simultaneously. Designed to meet the most stringent requirements for secure real-time mission-critical [...]

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 [...]