Waseda University, Tsukuba University and Elmic Wescom to Jointly Develop Security-Reinforced Embedded OS Architecture.Tokyo, Japan, Mar 13, 2006 - (JCN JCN Japan Corporate News JCN Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience JCN Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing JCN Journal of Christian Nursing JCN Job Control Number JCN Journal of Child Neurology JCN joint communications network (US DoD) ) - Waseda University Professor Tatsuo Nakajima's research group, Tsukuba University Associate Professor Shuichi Oikawa's research group and Elmic Wescom have launched a project to jointly develop an embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. architecture with reinforced security and reliability. The architecture will have virtual Linux and ITRON ITRON International Tidal Wetland Rice Observational Nursery ITRON Industrial The Real-time Operation Nucleus kernels implemented on a single CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. micro-kernel. Since architecture will enable multiple runtime environments A configuration of hardware and software. It includes the CPU type, operating system and any runtime engines or system software required by a particular category of applications. See runtime engine. to independently exist, applications and resources will be discretely handled for each OS. Systems to be build on the architecture will be robust as an application running on one OS cannot access an application running on another OS, and also as debugs on an application affect only its runtime environment, minimizing the damage. The partners confirmed beforehand in an experiment that IRON on a micro-kernel has ensured realtime capability, which has been a concern over virtual OS's. The project will be finished in March 2007. The source code of the architecture program, the fruit of the project, will be made public, and the partners will aim to encourage its wide use. Copyright [c] 2006 Japan Corporate News Network. All rights reserved. |
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