Kontron (Eching, Germany/San Diego, CA), a provider of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and custom embedded-computing solutions, and LynuxWorks Inc. (San José, CA) announced support for LynuxWorks' LynxOS-SE 5.0 on Kontron's ITC-320 3U CompactPCI CPU board, which is based on the Intel Core2 Duo processor. The combination of the Kontron ITC-320 with LynxOS-SE 5.0 provides a secure computing solution that is suited for 'medium robustness' security applications. The Kontron ITC-320 series is a range of 3U CompactPCI CPU boards using a high-performance and long-term available processing chipset from the Intel embedded architecture. The board with LynxOS-SE 5.0 is based on the 1.5GHz Intel Core2 Duo LV processor. With its high-performance PCI-Express port, which is backwards compatible with PCI supporting software and configurable either as x4 or quad x1, the Kontron ITC-320 is equipped for data-intensive applications. The LynxOS-SE 5.0 BSP is designed to meet the most stringent requirements for secure, real-time mission-critical applications and allows defense developers to benefit from an out-of-the-box hardware/software solution that is optimized for the harshest environments and provides a single solution for real-time systems with zero downtime tolerance. The OS provides open APIs, Linux ABI compatibility. LynxOS-SE 5.0 also offers increased RAM that enables developers to take full advantage of current hardware designs. For more about the Kontron ITC-320 3U CompactPCI CPU board, the Kontron 3U CompactPCI boards, or CompactPCI, please visit Kontron. Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.
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