LynuxWorks Journal

SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/25/12 -- AFCEA West -- LynuxWorks, Inc. announced that the Mission Systems and Sensors Division (MS2) of Lockheed Martin in Owego, NY has selected the LynxOS real-time operating system (RTOS) and Luminosity Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for use in conjunction with the United Kingdom (UK) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). The UK's AWACS aircraft were designed to provide an airborne early warning capability by tracking aircraft at extended ranges. The AWACS has become invaluable for airborne command and control and their ability to relay vital information to commanders on the ground. According to Robert Day, VP of Marketing at LynuxWorks, "In recent years, LynuxWorks software has been selected for a growing list of current and next-generation aircraft. This is one more example of LynxOS' strength to meet dema... (more)

LynuxWorks Virtualization For Medical Devices

LynuxWorks announced that the company will present an educational workshop on both software and hardware virtualization techniques at the 12th Software Design for Medical Devices conference on April 27 at the Hub Cira Center Diesel room in Philadelphia. At the workshop, LynuxWorks will give attendees an 'under-the-hood' look at their LynxSecure separation kernel and embedded hypervisor, explain how the technology works, and demonstrate how it can help consolidate both hardware and software for multiple modes on a single system. In addition, LynuxWorks will discuss how an embedde... (more)

LynuxWorks Releases Latest LynxOS-178 Support for AppliedMicro Boards

LynuxWorks has announced the availability of its board support package (BSP) for two additional motherboards from Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC), a global leader in embedded processing solutions. The BSP is a part of LynxOS-178 2.2.2, the latest release of the RTOS (real-time operating system) from LynuxWorks. The new BSP brings this safety-critical, certifiable Level A RTOS to the AppliedMicro 440EP and 460EX boards, increasing the number of AppliedMicro boards supported by LynuxWorks' LynxOS-178. LynxOS-178 is the first and only COTS operating system to receive Reusable S... (more)

Xilinx and LynuxWorks Demonstrate Avionics Application Solution at the Military and Aerospace Forum and Avionics USA Conference 2009

LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 DO-178B certifiable RTOS demonstrated on Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs SAN DIEGO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum (MAEF) and the Avionics USA conference today, Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), the world's leading programmable logic supplier to the aerospace and defense industry, and LynuxWorks, Inc., a world leader in embedded software, will demonstrate the industry's first and only time- and space-partitioned, FAA-accepted Reusable Software Component (RSC) that meets all objectives of RTCA/DO-178B. The demonstration includes the L... (more)

LynuxWorks Adds Functionality and Expands Support for Microsoft Windows

LynuxWorks has announced the immediate release of LynxSecure 3.1, the latest version of its next-generation and award-winning separation kernel and embedded hypervisor. This update to LynxSecure takes advantage of new technologies, including guest operating support for the latest Microsoft Windows® and the latest Intel® Core2 Duo systems. As with prior versions, LynxSecure 3.1 can virtualize the underlying hardware to enable multiple, heterogeneous operating systems (OS) to co-exist on the same platform. This mix can include traditional desktop OSes like fully virtualized Window... (more)