Commenting Robert Day, vice president of marketing at Lynx, said, “ARM designers are now able to run safety critical environments alongside a general purpose OS like Linuxor LynxOS RTOS on the same Xilinx processor without compromising safety, security or real-time performance.”
Use cases include automotive systems based on environments such as AUTOSAR RTA-BSW from ETAS and avionics designs using LynxOS-178 RTOS from Lynx.
“Designers,” according to Day, “can now match the security of air-gap hardware partitioning without incurring the cost, power and size overhead of separate hardware.”
The LynxSecure port to the UltraScale+ MPSoC supports modular software architectures and tight integration with FPGAs for hosting a combination of micro services (bare-metal), trusted functions, and open source projects on a single SoC.
The demonstration AT Embedded World is intended to illustrate how the platform is able to allow true heterogeneous computing on a single processor and how LynxSecure can enable bare-metal applications for performance and security.As part of a true heterogeneous computing platform, developers have the option to decide which functions reside in software using LynxSecure bare-metal apps or hardware through Xilinx FPGA fabric.
