Android developers benefit from safe RTOS PikeOS
ProductMarch 29, 2011
Alice Moss
Military Embedded Systems
Chris A. Ciufo
General Micro Systems, Inc.
SYSGO developers have decided to toss Android developers a lifeline by letting it run as a guest OS in version 3.2 of PikeOS.
So, have you noticed the preponderance of Android on everything and everywhere? Yep – even in rugged applications, my friends. So those zany developers at SYSGO have decided to toss Android developers a lifeline by letting it run as a guest OS in version 3.2 of PikeOS. SYSGO will develop a new Personality executive environment for Android within the virtualized safety and/or security constraints on the same hardware host device.
The Android Personality will work on separate sets of resources within the same machine, with resource separation enforced by PikeOS’s microkernel. This microkernel is lightweight and designed to be used in cost-sensitive, resource-constrained devices in both single- and multi-core environments. Typical processor architectures include: x86, PowerPC, QorIQ, MIPS, ARM, SPARC, and SH. Both AMP and SMP architectures are supported, and the RTOS is certifiable to safety standards including DO-178B, IEC 61508, and EN 50128.
