MontaVista Bare Metal Engine Integrated with Dynamically Configurable Data Plane Capabilities

MontaVista (News - Alert) Software, a provider of solutions for embedded Linux commercialization, announced that the MontaVista Bare Metal Engine will now be available with new dynamically configurable data plane capabilities that are designed to scale from the high performance services of Embedded Linux to dedicated near zero overhead bare metal environments for packet processing.

According to the company, the Bare Metal Engine (BME) provides a light-weight, configurable run-time environment that delivers RTOS performance, all inside a Linux environment. Based on standard Linux features, the BME lets users create a dedicated environment to run Linux processes, providing bare-metal execution and performance in Linux.

BME provides multiple configurations, allowing users to choose their own unique balance between system-services and no-overhead performance. With BME network equipment provider need not have to sacrifice the performance formerly only achieved from an application running on a semiconductor's executive.

The BME is stated to be a common toolset for compiling, profiling, tracing, and debugging in Linux and Bare Metal applications and it is also capable of being extended to any processor architecture creating even greater benefits to NEPs using more than one multi-core SOC vendor, by providing greater application portability. It supposedly opens a new realm of flexibility with high performance apps that does not have to be in the kernel or coded in C language.

Officials with MontaVista ascertained that in the past the only way a developer could get higher levels of performance was by running an application with a semi library in 'bare metal' directly on the hardware. This was great for performance, but not convenient for development and debugging. Developers had to choose between tools and performance.

No longer does this choice have to be made. With MontaVista's Bare Metal Engine developers get the benefits in both worlds as Bare metal performance previously only found in a semi's proprietary executive, with the tools and support of a Linux ecosystem.

In other news, MontaVista Software announced secure HTML5 and Android (News - Alert) support for its Automotive Technology Platform. The addition of HTML5 support is provided via MontaVista's Modii Digital Media Solutions Platform which adds a HTML5-based UI Framework to its recently released Genivi-Compliant Platform.