LynuxWorks Introduces Next Generation of Its Flagship Real-Time Operating System, LynxOS 5, Bringing Its Hard Real-Time and Open Standards to Multi-Co

the first choice of customers who cannot afford downtime.

LynxOS 5 provides unmatched POSIX compliance to the latest POSIX standards IEEE 1003.1-2003 & IEEE 1003.13-2003 (PSE53 profile). These POSIX interfaces provide advanced real-time and other capabilities in the areas of process creation (spawn), scheduling (sporadic server), time management (clocks), wide characters and dynamic linking and allow the migration of legacy POSIX applications as well as the creation of new, portable POSIX applications for execution in the LynxOS environment.

"LynuxWorks has always taken a unique approach to supporting open standards and providing new features to their core LynxOS product," said Steve Balacco, director, Venture Development Corp. "This approach has resulted in platform solutions designed to support complex embedded development across a broad range of industries and applications."

"LynxOS has been particularly popular in the military and avionics markets where performance with reliability is a necessity," said Jerry Krasner, Ph.D., vice president of Embedded Market Forecasters (EMF). "Now with performance being helped by mulit-core and the increasing demands for openness and interoperability, LynxOS 5 is a welcome addition to the next generation of systems."

LynxOS 5 provides a new Linux Application Binary Interface (ABI), which allows Linux applications to run unmodified along with native POSIX applications. This enables customers to take advantage of several Linux third-party COTS applications, such as Oracle 9, Apache, ACE-TAO, PostGres and QT, many of which have been tested by LynuxWorks in this environment, and run them in a hard real-time environment.

LynxOS 5 also provides advanced networking capabilities with a state-of-the-art TCP/IP network stack supporting IPv4, IPv6, IPSec and Quality of Service (QoS) features. The QoS features in the network stack help extend the real-time capabilities to network traffic between different nodes and provide the ability for middleware (such as Data Distribution Service from RTI) and applications to create differentiated services across multiple networks. LynxOS 5 also provides expanded language support, which allows for the development and execution of C, C++, Ada and Java applications and provides extended graphics capabilities with X-windows, Lestif and OpenGL support to allow the creation of 2-D and 3-D graphics applications.

LynuxWorks also announced today the availability of Luminosity 3.0, its next-generation integrated development environment (IDE) based on the popular open-source Eclipse IDE platform. Luminosity is a full-featured Java-based IDE for LynuxWorks' LynxOS and LynxOS-SE development platforms and provides a simplified, flexible platform to create, edit, compile, manage and debug embedded and real-time applications.

LynxOS forms the core of a wide array of systems, from postal mail sorting solutions to air traffic control systems, and from office printers and copiers to military field artillery; it provides a superior foundation for sophisticated real-time systems. It also is the only hard real-time technology with broad conformance to open and de facto standards such as Linux, POSIX and UNIX®.

Availability

The beta version of LynxOS 5 is currently available. General availability is scheduled for Q2 2007.

About LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks is a world leader in the embedded software market, providing operating systems, software development products and consulting services for the world's most successful communications, aerospace/defense, and consumer products companies. Established in 1988, the company is a technology leader in the real-time operating systems (RTOS) industry. LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San Jose, California.

LynuxWorks is a trademark and LynxOS and BlueCat are registered trademarks of LynuxWorks, Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

For more information contact: Kirsten Long LynuxWorks, Inc. 408-979-4404 Email Contact

Seema Kalra Weber Shandwick 408-685-0606 Email Contact

SOURCE:  LynuxWorks

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