Nowadays Android™ apps are gaining in popularity. In answer to that development SYSGO is porting Android™ as a new personality of its Safe and Secure Virtualization (SSV) product PikeOS. The same safety and security certified technology allowing strict partitioning between critical and non-critical applications is available for developers of more consumer oriented Android™ programs that they can now combine with real-time and legacy code. Today the support of the Android™ Personality is available on ARM and x86 architectures.

The release of PikeOS 3.2 extends SMP support from x86 to ARM, PowerPC and SPARC architectures, going along with new SMP capable Linux Personality, performance improvements, and many enhancements in tools. The new version of PikeOS expands the scope of this SSV based RTOS product to new hardware platforms, new Guest OSs, and new functionality across existing features.

The most significant new items in this release include:

• SMP functionality extended to ARM, PPC_e500/QorlQ, PPC_OEA/e600 and SPARC architectures
• New Linux personality with performance improvements, SMP capable and updated to ELinOS 5.1 using kernel 2.6.34
• New Android™ Personality on ARM and x86
• C++ support and general performance improvements for SMP capable POSIX personality
• Linux personality for SPARC/Leon architecture
• Extended ARM Cortex A9 and Thumb instruction set support
• Multi-core tracing and debugging enhancements
• Tool chain update from GCC 3.4 to 4.4
• New plug-ins and various enhancements of CODEO IDE
• Update of CODEO IDE substructure from Eclipse 3.4 to 3.6
• Extended host platform support to Linux 64 bit and Windows 64 bit, including Windows 7

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