TECHNICAL ARTICLES

Embedded Best Practices at Arm Tech-con

_______________ Lynx participated in this year’s Arm TechCon with a booth in the expo hall, where we demoed Lynx MOSA.ic and its components — LynxSecure®, Buildroot Linux, LynxOS-178®, and Lynx Simple Applications (which are bare-metal apps). It was... Read More

How to Choose a Real-Time Operating System

_______________ Choosing an RTOS is not as simple as choosing a car. We know about cars; we know their strengths and weaknesses and we intuitively understand compromises like performance vs practicality or luxury vs price. We see all kinds of... Read More

Realizing modern Automotive Software Environments

_______________ The complexity of today’s automobiles is increasing with every new model on the market. A modern car can contain hundreds of electronic control units and with connectivity and autonomy becoming commonplace, this is increasing... Read More

What is SR-IOV and Why is It Important for embedded devices?

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is the complex name for a technology beginning to find its way into embedded devices. SR-IOV is a hardware standard that allows a PCI Express device – typically a network interface card (NIC) – to present... Read More

What is a Reusable Software Component?

A DO-178B/C Reusable Software Component (RSC) is a software collection that is recognized as meeting the requirements of RTCA/DO-178B/C and that may be used on more than one project without having to regenerate certification artifacts. The FAA... Read More

CAST-32A: Significance and Implications

_______________ CAST-32A presents the coordinated position of avionics certification authorities regarding Multi-Core Processors (MCPs). While today’s aerospace ecosystem could benefit from the use of MCPs, before CAST-32A was published, FAA/EASA... Read More