LynuxWorks Joins EEMBC Hypervisor Workgroup in Leadership Role

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. — Feb. 9, 2009 — The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today announced that LynuxWorks™ has joined the consortium's Hypervisor Subcommittee, which has unanimously elected Arun Subbarao, vice president of engineering at LynuxWorks, to serve as its chair.

LynuxWorks is a supplier of embedded software and tools, including the recently introduced LynxSecure 2.0 separation kernel and embedded hypervisor.

The EEMBC Hypervisor Subcommittee is working on a new set of benchmarks that will measure the contribution of hypervisors, also known as virtual machine managers, to performance, code size, and energy consumption in a wide range of embedded systems.

"Our engineers at LynuxWorks are excited about using their knowledge to help in the creation of a hypervisor benchmark suite alongside other EEMBC members," said Arun Subbarao, VP engineering, LynuxWorks

"Hypervisors are rapidly growing in popularity for use in embedded applications such as mobile devices, telecomm equipment, consumer products, and automotive/industrial," said EEMBC President Markus Levy. "Having the participation of the technical experts of LynuxWorks, especially with their direct knowledge of the interaction of hypervisors and real-time operating systems, will help to ensure a robust and fair hypervisor benchmark suite."

A hypervisor is a program that allows multiple operating systems or execution environments to run simultaneously on a single embedded processor. In a multicore environment, a hypervisor can also distribute the operating systems and applications across multiple cores. The benefits of using a hypervisor as a virtualization platform include better load balancing and lower power consumption, by virtue of migrating processes dynamically to underutilized cores, and greater uptime through background firmware updates and redundant OS imaging.

"A number of key factors are contributing to the increasing adoption of embedded hypervisor technology, such as running legacy code and operating systems, migration to new multi-core chips and the need for security separation of applications" said Arun Subbarao, VP engineering for LynuxWorks. "However, real-time performance and determinism is still one of the top factors in the selection of hypervisors, and our engineers at LynuxWorks are excited about using their knowledge to help in the creation of a hypervisor benchmark suite alongside other EEMBC members."

In addition to LynuxWorks, member companies that have participated in the EEMBC Hypervisor Subcommittee include AMD, ARM, Cavium Networks, Freescale Semiconductor, Green Hills Software, IBM, Intel, Marvell Semiconductor, MIPS Technologies, Nokia Siemens Networks, Open Kernel Labs, VirtualLogix, and VMware. EEMBC welcomes inquiries from companies that are interested in contributing to the development of HyperBench by becoming a member of the EEMBC Board of Directors or its hypervisor subcommittee.

About EEMBC

EEMBC, the Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, develops and certifies real-world benchmarks and benchmark scores to help designers select the right embedded processors for their systems. Every processor submitted for EEMBC benchmarking is tested for parameters representing different workloads and capabilities in communications, networking, consumer, office automation, automotive/industrial, embedded Java, and network storage-related applications. With members including leading semiconductor, intellectual property, and compiler companies, EEMBC establishes benchmark standards and provides certified benchmarking results through the EEMBC Technology Center.

About LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks, a world leader in the embedded software market, is committed to providing open and reliable real-time operating systems (RTOS) and software tools to embedded developers. The company's LynxOS family of operating systems offers open standards with the highest level of safety and security features, enabling many mission-critical systems in defense, avionics and other industries. Additionally, LynuxWorks' BlueCat Linux provides the features and support of embedded Linux for companies wanting to use open-source technology for their embedded applications. The Eclipse-based Luminosity IDE gives a powerful and consistent development system across all LynuxWorks operating systems. Since it was established in 1988, LynuxWorks has created technology that has been successfully deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, avionics, aerospace/defense, and consumer electronics companies. LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San José, CA.

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.

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