COVER EMBEDDED WORLD 2022 IAN FERGUSON “A strong theme was around security. The good news is that there seems to be an increased recognition and discussion of the problem.” NEW ELECTRONICS looks back at some of the announcements that came out of this year’s show in Nuremberg ast month saw Nuremberg, in Germany, host the fi rst ‘live’ Embedded World Exhibition & Conference in two years with demonstrations of the latest trends and technical innovations in the fi eld of embedded system development. According to the organisers over 700 exhibitors from 39 countries were in attendance exhibiting the very latest in hardware, systems, distribution, services, tools, application software, as well as new innovations in electronic displays, safety and security. As Benedikt Weyerer, Exhibition Director of Embedded World, said, “I am pleased that with Embedded World we once again became the community meeting place for the global embedded industry. The success of the exhibition is derived from the fact that we directly identify, embrace and help shape new trends and developments from the embedded community.” Speaking to New Electronics, © NuernbergMesse / Frank Boxler L Ian Ferguson, VP Marketing, Lynx Software Technologies said that people being back, in person, was the most exciting aspect of the event. “While many companies seemed to decouple announcements from the show overall the sense, I got from this year’s show, was one of joy. People seeing colleagues, partners, and competitors again in the aisles. The industry is quite small and the opportunity to see familiar faces in Nuremberg is my overriding memory. People seemed happier too, they were smiling more than I remember than in prior years!” Lynx, a specialist in Mission Critical Edge, used Embedded World to release LynxElement, the industry’s fi rst unikernel to be POSIX compatible and available for commercial use. Part of the LYNX MOSA.ic portfolio of products it looks to address mission-critical use cases. Unikernels are used in applications that require speed, agility and a small attack surface for increased security and certifi ability such as aircraft systems, autonomous vehicles and critical infrastructure. The use of Unikernels, which allow pre-built applications using libraries, reduces the attack surface and are well suited as a component © NuernbergMesse / Frank Boxler GOOD TO BE BACK for mission-critical systems with heterogeneous workloads that need the coexistence of RTOS, Linux, Unikernel and bare-metal guests. Lynx has based its Unikernel product on its proven LynxOS-178 real-time operating system so as to enable compatibility between the Unikernel and the standalone LynxOS-178 product. According to Pavan Singh, vice president of product management at Lynx Software Technologies, “LynxElement offers increased density, better security, speed, and small size as compared with different approaches. This enables the predictability of systems to be determined by properties of the separation kernel, which we view as the foundational approach to the next generation of component-based development.” Ferguson made the point that at this year’s show, “A strong theme was around security. The good news is that there seems to be an increased recognition and discussion of the problem. However, I was left with the impression that the industry isn’t moving fast enough to address it as a cohesive ecosystem.” While there was a lot of discussion around chip shortages and security, and while there was no one announcement around RISC-V per se, a lot of companies were talking more openly about their plans in this space. “I was asked about this technology frequently in on-stand meetings,” said Ferguson. Shreyas Derashri, VP of Compute, at Imagination Technologies agreed. 14 / JULY 2022
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