Hypervisor upgraded with ‘advanced features’
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Mentor Graphics has introduced the latest version of its Embedded Hypervisor. The upgrade brings what the company calls 'advanced features' for system configuration, debugging, and hardware support in markets such as industrial, medical, automotive, networking, telecommunications and consumer electronics.
The Embedded Hypervisor provides data driven configuration and device trees for guest resource partitioning, instead of hard coded guest resource tables contained in each board support package. This is said to enable easier system build and configuration.
Debugging enhancements include: a simpler command syntax and more extensible design capabilities; Jtag debugging for the hypervisor and guest operating systems; and tighter integration with the Sourcery CodeBench integrated development environment.
Designers can configure their system and partition resources using data driven models. This build system configuration deploys and visualises interactions between multiple operating systems and applications across processors.
The Embedded Hypervisor supports ARM TrustZone technology, establishing a foundation for safe and reliable embedded devices. It also supports Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15 based devices, as well as providing 'out of the box' support for The Yocto Project version 1.6, Linux distributions, GENIVI specification 6 compliant platforms and real time operating systems such as Nucleus.
