Embedded Industry integration becomes the focus of Linux development

MINDER Singh, Chairman of LynuxWorks, believes that in the embedded software industry, Linux will become the focus of the next round of development, and virtualization and security technologies are likely to be integrated.

At present, Lynx, a developer of the real-time operating system of LynxOS, successfully escaped the fate of the acquisition. In these acquisitions, Intel acquired Fenghe, cavium networks acquired shares from monavista and RIM to obtain the QNX software system. In an interview with the embedded systems conference (ESC), Singh said: "I think the software stack currently plays a secondary role in virtualization and security technologies ." He also said: "The recession may force the integration of some embedded software, especially into the recovery phase, there are often many acquisitions ".

Multi-core processor design attracts attention

Singh believes that the outstanding design of multi-core processors in embedded systems will attract increasing attention of embedded developers. Multi-core chips "have seen rapid growth over the past year. Many customers have talked about it before, but now they have begun to design it ".

At the embedded systems conference (ESC), Green Hills and fesikar jointly announced that they would jointly develop and promote highly integrated and optimized Single-core, multi-core operating systems and tool solutions, it is positioned for network, communication, industrial and on-board applications.

Green Hills will develop and optimize its own Integrity operating system around the QorIQ, PowerQUICC, and MPC5xxx power architecture controllers of flykar. Other related Green Hills tools include security Virtualization, integrated development environment (Multi IDE), C/C ++ compiler, and TimeMachine debugging kit.

Green Hills also released a multi-core development solution for the Octeon series MIPS multi-core processors of the Cavium network company. In addition to the Integrity operating system, this solution also includes the Secure Networking security network platform, GateD Layer 3 routing protocol, and Multi IDE. The Octeon series provides advanced security, network, and application acceleration to improve energy efficiency.

Virtualization software can help ensure that independent tasks and operating systems run on different cores of multi-core processors without interfering with each other. LynuxWorks released the LynxSecure embedded virtualization solution on ESC, supporting Intel's Core i7 and i5 processors for the first time.

Defense and Aviation Electronics Engineers have expressed increasing interest in X86 chips. Mr Singh said his company also supported several ARM and flisikar processors. At the same time, Google Android "is becoming one of the major popular Linux versions and promoting the popularity of Linux ".

Singh said: "We will see more Linux entertainment applications. TV sets will all use Linux, and you can get TV programs from the Internet. Android is one of the main parts." Even if the aerospace and defense engineers "are evaluating and using Android ".

In the open community of ESC, Android tutorials attracted more than 100 Android project engineers from automobile, consumer goods, medical and other industries. "The boundaries between embedded software and mainstream software are becoming increasingly confusing," said Bill Gatliff, Consultant at the tutorial ." Apple's iPhone has led the mobile phone industry-a closed embedded device is becoming a computer open to third-party applications.

According to Singh, in the long run, embedded and computer software companies "both need to communicate with each other. What they need now is a mutually compatible protocol stack so that cloud computing can work ".