Open Kernel Products
Consumer Electronics
The consumer electronics marketplace is experiencing a revolutionary transformation from its traditional focus on mechanical and electrical engineering to an emphasis on adding value through software functionality and provision of multimedia content and high value services. This transition does not depart from traditional needs for quality and a reliable “instant-on” end-user experience but adds new requirements for security and robustness in an increasingly connected world.
Open Kernel Labs OKL4 provides a truly strategic software platform for consumer electronics device OEMs from vertically integrated manufacturers with multiple brands and dozens of end product lines to start-ups fielding their first intelligent devices.
Next generation set-top boxes, DVRs, home gateways, in-car navigation and entertainment systems, media players and other content delivery devices all benefit from designing in OKL4 technology with:
- Small memory footprint and open source code base for minimal impact on device bill of materials
- Hardware support for key 32- and 64-bit SoCs, FPGAs and application processors based on ARM and MIPS cores
- Short path for retargeting legacy code to next-generation hardware and software platforms
- Superior security and robustness from hardware-enforced virtual machines or partitions
- User space non-privileged execution of all guest OSes and other software
- Ability to host and segregate trusted and untrusted program execution
- Architectural protection for high-value audio, video and other IP
- Robust, secure and high performance communication among guest operating systems and applications
- Isolation of open source code and closely held IP to meet contractual obligations and regulatory requirements
- Software consolidation from multiple to single CPUs enables superior power management for “green” appliances and entertainment systems