Lynx Adds Hot Swap Support for Intel Pentium Processors

Allows development of COTS CompactPCI/VME products for high-availability applications

SAN JOSÉ, Calif.—August 23, 1999—Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. today announced it has extended its support for commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) high-availability systems to include the Intel® Pentium® microprocessor architecture. Intel customers will be able to use the LynxOS® real-time operating system (RTOS) to develop hot-swap applications for CompactPCI® systems using Pentium processors. These systems are targeted for high-availability telecommunications market segments. The first available COTS hardware implementation is on Motorola Computer Group's (MCG) award-winning, High-Availability CPX8216 CompactPCI computer system.

"The Lynx support of hot-swap technology for systems using the Intel Pentium processor provides a significant new design alternative to telecommunications systems designers", said Joe Jensen, director of marketing, embedded Intel architecture, Intel corporation. "This new alternative offers a broad set of technologies for designing cost-effective, scalable and highly reliable systems."

"MCG has worked with Lynx and our joint customers to provide a high-availability platform that is capable of providing 'five-nines' (99.999%) of availability," said John Hughes, vice president and director of the telecommunications business unit, Motorola Computer Group.

"Embedded systems developers have long valued the hard real-time performance and high reliability of the LynxOS operating system for mission critical telecommunications applications," said William Hogan, president and CEO of Lynx. "Complete support for the Pentium processor family extends our ability to address high-volume embedded applications in high-availability markets."

LynxOS delivers real-time performance, patented interrupt handling, memory management technology, and industry leading POSIX® support for embedded applications.

About the CPX8216 from Motorola Computer Group (MCG)

MCG's CPX8216 embedded computing platform is designed to deliver the "five-nines" (99.999%) capability essential for the most critical telecom infrastructure applications when combined with the appropriate software. The key feature that makes high availability possible on open-architecture CompactPCI technology is the built-in redundancy of every active system component, which enables any active module to be exchanged for repair or upgrade while the system continues to operate. This redundancy even includes system-slot CPU boards.

Intel embedded products

Intel's embedded products encompass a wide-range of feature-rich components used in non-PC devices and systems. Products from the Applied Computing Products Division include embedded support for various versions of the Intel Architecture, including the Pentium, Pentium II and Celeron™ processors.

About Lynx Real-Time Systems

An ISO 9001 registered company, Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. provides the foundation software for reliable and high-performance applications in telecommunications, data communications, avionics, automotive, office automation and process control systems. Lynx supplies embedded software products including scalable real-time operating systems, a software framework for high-availability systems, development tools and technical support worldwide. These products are based on such industry standards as POSIX®, Java™ and CompactPCI to enable customers to leverage their investments in software and education. Lynx holds two patents for real-time software and has three patents pending. Founded in 1988, Lynx is a privately held company with offices in North America, Europe and Japan, with worldwide headquarters in San José, California.

LynxOS is a registered trademark of Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders.

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