Green Hills, Curtiss-Wright launch hypervisor

Integrity Multivisor is Green Hill's multicore, microkernel based Type 1 hypervisor. It is designed to provide the software foundation for secure consolidation and separation of disparate real time, safety and security critical applications running alongside potentially untrusted guest operating system environments. According to the embedded software specialist, the CWCEC's SVME/DMV-186 and VPX6-187 SBC feature the eight core Freescale QorIQ P4080 processor, enabling 'unprecedented' levels of consolidation and providing 'significant' reductions in size, weight and power. The Integrity Multivisor has initial support for Freescale Linux as a guest operating system and has been designed to provide native support for the P4080's advanced networking engine, the Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA). This is said to provide hardware accelerated packet processing for high performance networking and communications. Gordon Jones, vice president and general manager, Integrity Secure Virtualization, Green Hills Software, said: "We're pleased to be partnering with Curtiss-Wright by delivering secure virtualisation for their high performance COTS hardware platforms. Together, the Integrity Multivisor and Curtiss-Wright SBCs provide the ultimate platform for safe and secure consolidation of aerospace and defence applications, independent of their mission criticality." Lynn Bamford, vice president and general manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, added: "Green Hills Software brings proven secure software virtualisation to critical computing applications. The combination of their Integrity Multivisor software and our high performance multicore single board computers delivers performance critical, security critical and safety critical solutions to our aerospace and defence customers."