Industry News Desk

VrtualLogix announced the availability of VLX Developer v2.0, offering enhanced support for deploying VLX realtime virtualization technology to performance-critical, Intel-based systems. Developer v2.0 complements VLX for Network Infrastructure v3.0, also announced, by enabling architects to create and deploy virtual platforms. These VLX-based systems offer the traditional cost-savings benefits of virtualization, combined with deterministic support for real-time operating systems (RTOS) as well as their device drivers and application code.

VLX Developer v2.0, built on the Eclipse open development platform, provides a graphical drag-and-drop interface for configuring VLX-specific hardware and software elements. As many of these options are neither available nor appropriate for virtualization solutions that target enterprise or server applications, the tool's intuitive support for these VLX-specific configuration options is a key requirement. In addition to these new graphical configuration capabilities, Developer's guest OS monitoring capabilities continue to provide graphical CPU utilization and OS context switch displays that are critical to understand and debug the real-time systems virtualized behavior.

VLX Developer v2.0 builds on the existing key features of its current suite including:

• Configuration
• Build
• Monitor

“Major players in the embedded and electronics markets are realizing the advantages virtualization technology brings to devices, including being easier to design, offering greater functionality and enabling faster time-to-market,” said Mark Milligan, Vice President of Marketing, VirtualLogix. “With VLX Developer v2.0, we’ve expanded the capabilities of our Eclipse-based tools, providing embedded software developers with support for the Intel platform and making it even easier to integrate virtualization into the development process. VirtualLogix is committed to delivering powerful virtualization solutions that are efficient in design to the business community.”