Consumer Electronics

The convergence of consumer electronic functionality is leading this industry. A cellular phone today combines functionalities of an MP3 player, a camera, a PDA and, of course, a mobile phone. Every consumer device is becoming a multi-media, multi-connectivity and multi-functional device. Meanwhile, the tough and large competitor landscape is putting a lot of pressure on cost-effective innovations.

Embedded Linux –
Over the last decade, embedded technology has advanced and evolved, almost beyond recognition. Where devices once stood alone and offered point functionality, today they are highly connected, extensible platforms.
Microkernel –
Microkernels have been receiving new attention during the recent years. After being discarded in the mid 1990s on the grounds of causing too much performance impact, the approach seems to be the answer to today’s computer problems: Today, computers generally do not suffer from lack of performance, but they often have severe reliability problems.
Paravirtualization –
Paravirtualization is the most common and widely used approach in the embedded industry. Paravirtualization requires a slight adaptation of the hosted environment to run on the virtualization layer, often refered to as hypervisor.
Real-time –
Embedded applications present a range of requirements for performance, including real-time responsiveness. Intelligent devices may need to respond to external and internal events or generate their own time-based output to meet "hard" deadlines or merely to be "fast enough".

Safe and Secure Virtualization in a Separation Microkernel –
An introduction on how PikeOS can help to solve security issues
Bringing together real-time and Virtualization –
An introduction how to match strict real-time constraints in a full virtualization environment
Combining Partitioning and Virtualization for Safety-Critical Systems –
An introduction in facing complexity and criticality challenges of todays safety-critical systems
The PikeOS Concept – History and Design –
An introduction how SYSGO had to reinvent the Microkernel concept to meet RTOS requirements