VIRTUAL INTEGRATION ENVIRONMENT SOFTWARE
With the pressure on collapsing development schedules, Lynx has worked with its partners and identified three areas of opportunity associated with the creation of LYNX MOSA.ic-based systems:
- Enable software development for Linux and LynxOS-178 without software developers needing to be experts in hypervisor technology. Here, the focus is on functionality as opposed to cycle accuracy
- Developing customer software ahead of target hardware availability
- Harnessing existing customer CI/CD development flows for the creation of LYNX MOSA.ic-based systems
PRODUCT DETAILS
The diagram to the right shows how the system is configured. The Lynx DevOps Server hosts the Virtual Target Emulator and includes a Linux-hosted QEMU. vSwitch supports the LynxOS-178 RTOS or LynxElement (Unikernel) runtime environments. This provides accurate emulation of POSIX/ANSI calls. Client/Server Lynx Target Services (LTS) utility allows users to create/delete and start/stop LynxOS-178 or Unikernel images. Lynx provides command line interface (CLI) and Python APIs to control this.
To use this package of software, customers:
- Deploy the Lynx DevOps Server with the Virtual Target Emulator and Manager
- Deploy the client side of the Virtual Target Manager on the MfA CDK workstations
- Build LynxOS-178, Unikernel and Buildroot Linux images
- Use the CLI to upload and run the images on the Virtual Target Emulator
- Script the deployment and execution of images on the virtual target for CI/CD
SHIFT LEFT YOUR DEVELOPMENT CYCYLE
WITH LYNX MOSA.IC.VIE + LYNX MOSA.IC.EBF (EMBEDDED BOARD FARM) ADD-ON
In today's fast-paced engineering landscape, organizations are shifting development and testing activities left to meet the demands of aggressive deployment schedules. To stay competitive and responsive, companies must reduce time to production, increase deployment frequency, and deliver software updates at “the speed of operations.” LYNX MOSA.ic.VIE, our virtual hardware environment solution, seamlessly integrates into CI/CD pipelines to help you meet these challenges. By adding the LYNX MOSA.ic.EBF Add-On, you gain access to an Embedded Board Farm that combines the advantages of virtual environments with the capabilities of physical hardware, empowering you to optimize your development lifecycle and enhance operational efficiency.
