PikeOS Hypervisor


Partitions & Guest OS

PikeOS Hypervisor


Partitions & Guest OS

Safety and Security requirements increase with usage of mobile connectivity in the internet of things. Via a hypervisor virtualization technology different operating systems (OS) can run in parallel partitions on a single or multicore processor to serve specific use cases, such as separation from consumer bound OS to safety bound OS types, reduction of Space, Weight and Power or the re-use of legacy code from former projects.

Partitions can host a broad variety of Guest OS, i.e. guest operating systems, run-time environments (RTE) and APIs, on top of the hypervisor and support applications of different security level, different criticality level, real-time or none real-time. This variety of Guest OS enables legacy applications (e.g. Ada or legacy RTOS) to run concurrently with new applications based on standards like POSIX® or ARINC-653 and can even be combined with embedded Linux. All these Guest OS run on the same PikeOS kernel support applications in industries like aerospace & defense, automotive & transportation, industrial automation & medical, network infrastructure, and consumer electronics.

Addressable Use Cases

  • Clustering software functions
  • Reduce number of ECUs
  • Software separation with mixed criticality
  • Addressing Safety requirements and certification
  • Secure SW updates
  • Secure boot process
  • Security artifact handling
  • Graphics performance and sharing
  • Audio sharing and priority handling

PikeOS partitions and Guest OS; PikeOS offers partitions for a broad range of Guest OS, i.e. guest operating systems, run-time environments and APIs.

Partitions & Guest OS

Complete operating systems normally don‘t require a host operating system (OS) to run on, nor can they tolerate the presence of another operating system.

On PikeOS, however, a host OS can run in user-space, in non-privileged mode.

  • Embedded Linux (for example ELinOS or vanilla Linux)
  • µITRON
  • OSEK (AUTOSAR)
  • RTEMSWindows (contact us)
  • Legacy RTOS: we can provide APIs that combine your Legacy OS with other operating systems, run-time environments and APIs on top of PikeOS (contact us)

Run-time Environments high performing

Execution of run-time environments need an OS host. With PikeOS RTOS run-time environments have their own schedulers and communication processes. Therefore, run-time environments run with high performance.

APIs on-hand

Application programming interfaces (APIs) provide an interface used to access underlying functionality.

Board Support Packages

To see which boards are supported please have a look at our BSP-List.