Interoperability is just a fancy way of saying that systems have to work together. The concept is simple but the mechanisms required to make it work are not. Interoperability is achieved through adherence to international and other standards, combined with translation packages that homologate “nearly identical” communications channels. The first approach is exemplified by Internet standards like TCP/IP while the second is implemented by systems like Common Object Request Broker Arch...Read More
As embedded systems increase in complexity while combining dissimilar functionality, designers are turning to virtual processors hosting multiple operating systems to insure unimpeded, deterministic response to real-time events while simultaneously providing users and operators with a high-level, graphics-based interface. Although this virtualization approach allows the development team to independently allocate system resources including memory and I/O to each operating environment, security, ...Read More
As embedded designers face the challenge of developing systems with fewer components and lower power consumption while combining multiple applications, many have turned to virtualization software to simplify the process. Even with a single core processor, virtualization allows designers to merge a real time operating system with a high level, graphics based user interface such as Windows or Linux. However, the introduction of the 2nd generation Intel® Core™ architecture with multiple...Read More
Hardware consolidation is often thought of as a general purpose computing strategy aimed at servers and datacenters. But virtualization-based consolidation can have big impacts in embedded systems, too. Intel multi-core and multi-threaded processors offer unexpected paths to embedded system cost reduction and control using virtualization. Virtualization fundamentally provides an ability to decouple and abstract an operating system/application from the physical hardware it resides on - en...Read More
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