Applying Multicore and Virtualization to Industrial and Safety Related Applications

This White Paper is presented by Wind River

Multicore and virtualization provide the opportunity to improve device performance, reduce costs through hardware consolidation and upgrade applications more cost effectively throughout the product lifecycle.

Disruptive technologies and trends are affecting the embedded market and providing device manufacturers in the industrial sector with a significant opportunity to improve both their devices and their businesses. Taking advantage of the following technical and industry trends represents a significant opportunity for competitive advantage: Multicore processors, Virtualization and increased complexity of safety related devices.

The availability of multicore processors causes both the most significant disruption the embedded market has seen in many years and one of the greatest opportunities. The latest Intel® multicore processors provide increased overall performance and improved performance per watt over singlecore processors. Multicore processorbased systems can also improve application scalability and protect software investment by allowing processors with more cores to be substituted to meet future demand. The trend towards multicore is well underway, as evidenced by Intel® dualcore and quadcore processor shipments exceeding singlecore processors.

The second technology trend is virtualization, which provides the ability to run multiple virtual machines on the same physical board by abstracting the underlying processing cores, memory and devices. Virtualization provides the ability to run multiple operating environments, such as one realtime operating system like Wind River® VxWorks, and a general purpose operating system like Wind River Linux*, on the same device, as shown in Figure 1. Performance gains from multicore processors and virtualization technology enable the consolidation of what were originally independent devices running separate applications onto one device. Consolidation reduces the amount of hardware and increases energy efficiency, which can lower the overall bill of materials and operating costs of the device....

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