Lyntr-Works and Realtime Techsolutions have unveiled LynxOS RTOS 5 that will enable software developers to create more powerful devices using advanced hardware and chipsets. One of the key features of LynxOS 5 is its ability to take advantage of the performance gains using syn1metric multiprocessing (SMP) architecture. By utilising SMP architecture, in which multi-identical processors are connected in the shared-memory mode, customers using LynxOS 5 will benefit, as the operating system will allow any processor to work on any task, regardless of the position of data in the memOly. Besides the SMP capabilities, because of its rigorous reliability requirements and meticulous adherence to open standards such as POSIX and Linux, LynxOS is in demand in verticals like telecommunications, military! aerospace, industrial, and automotive.

The POSIX interfaces provide advanced real-time and other essential capabilities in the areas of process creation, scheduling, tin1e management, wide characters and dynamic llnking. The interfaces also facilitate the migration of legacy POSIX applications along with the creation of new, portable POSIX applications for execution in the LynxOS environment. LynxOS 5 offers a new Linux application binary interface (ABD that permits the running of Linux applications along with native POSIX applications, without the need to modify them. This allows customers to leverage several Linux third-party COTS applications. LynxOS 5 also provides advanced networking capabilities.