X-HYP

MNIS Technologies has developed an embedded hypervisor (type 1) for the ARM family architecture: X-HYP Hypervisor.

X-HYP lets you run multiple operating systems at the same time on a single embedded system while ensuring a hardware-based isolation between the OSs. X-HYP uses para-virtualization to enforce the space and time separation of the domains, reduce latency and gain finest control of the hardware.

Adoption of embedded virtualization allows device manufacturers to design a single solution that easily scales from low-core-count CPUs to high-core-count systems as processing needs dictate.

In safety-critical systems, the safety-certified and noncertified components of the system traditionally must be physically separate, usually requiring multiple individual systems to achieve such separation.

With X-Hyp you reduce the trusted base to X-Hyp code and driver along with your application, moving big untrusted code like Linux out of the trusted base.

Embedded virtualization and multi-core CPUs offer the opportunity to move existing application stacks to new platforms without the efforts necessary to port single-core applications to multi-core CPUs. It opens up new opportunities for cost savings through hardware consolidation.