Embedded World 2009 was held in Nuremberg, Germany, March 3-5,2009. In this video clip, Kelvin Nilsen, Aonix's Chief Technology Officer, describes Aonix's Real-Time Java technologies in support of MILS and multi-partition environments and projects using PERC Ultra.

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Embedded Systems Conference, Silicon Valley was held in San Jose, CA, March 30-April 3, 2009. In this video clip, Gary Cato, Aonix's Director of Marketing, is interviewed by Bill Wong, Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine and discusses PERC® Java Virtual Machine for VxWorks MILS platform.

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Thales Air Systems Selects Aonix PERC Ultra for Java Execution on Ground Radar Systems

Proven determinism and performance crucial for system success cited as primary decision criteria.

Aonix announced the selection of the PERC Ultra virtual machine for the NORMANDIE and Ground Master 400 (GM 400) programs. Deterministic behaviour at a very low latency time (a few milliseconds) was the primary challenges of the applications done in Java™. PERC’s predictable behaviour and deterministic garbage collector enabled the Thales software team to achieve their time-critical execution deadlines.

NORMANDIE is a French radar system, funded and managed by  the DGA (Délégation  Générale  à  l'Armement) and dedicated to Ballistic missile tracking and measurement during the last part of the fly. GM 400 is a new high, medium and low-altitude fully digital radar family of products providing unmatched detection performances as well as outstanding operational availability. With an operational availability of greater than 99.9 percent and a mean time between critical failures of more than 3000 hours, the GM 400 is setting new standards in the air defense radar market. The PERC Virtual Machine is expected to be implemented and deployed in all the of new generation ground based radars sold by Thales.

Initial programs are using the PERC tool chain including Aonix’s newest PERC family member, PERC Ultra on Linux as the host development environment targeting PERC’s Virtual Machine on x86 multi-core processors.  The applications use a combination of Thales proprietary middleware written in C combined with Java code enabled by the Java™ Native Interface (JNI).  An important feature of PERC Ultra, the Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiler helped Thales to generate binary executables strategic to protection against end-user code tampering or reverse engineering.

Aonix and SYSGO Team with Industry Consortium to Address Trusted Embedded Computing Issues

PERC Ultra Virtual Machine technology to be used in conjunction with PikeOS to prove virtualization/hypervisor usage in secure embedded systems.

Aonix and Sysgo announced their collaboration in the Trusted Embedded Computing initiative. Aonix will provide the PERC Ultra virtual machine and its expertise in security and complex embedded systems and SYSGO will provide PikeOS MILS compliant and safe and secure virtualization expertise to the TECOM/FP7 project.

TECOM (Trusted Embedded Computing) is an Information Software Technology Project, which is co-financed by the European Commission under EU Framework Programme 7. The consortium of the TECOM project consists of 11 European partners from industry and academia including AMTEC, Aonix, Eads Defense & Security, Infineon, Mixed Mode, Sirrix, SYSGO, Technikon, Trango, Trusted Logic and the University of Dresden. This well balanced consortium will develop trusted computing solutions for embedded platforms, which means that TECOM especially ensures the security and safety of embedded computing systems and infrastructures.

Among various example applications which may benefit from TECOM concepts, Aonix will contribute the development of a Java application possibly dealing with trusted mobile banking or embedded medical device or trusted sensor modules like a home electricity/gas/water meter collector. The specific project and scope are yet to be determined.

“Aonix’s role in the European TECOM project dovetails well with the work we’re doing with several suppliers in the U.S. to address security issues facing most companies in today's unstable political and financially volatile environment”, said Gary Cato, director of marketing at Aonix.  Many military and aerospace companies have been struggling with security of data and communications prompting new technologies and integration efforts such as Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) and the TECOM project.  Aonix is pleased that the PERC virtual machine technology is being squarely positioned to help meet the expectations of these initiatives.