Objective Interface Systems (OIS) is shipping a version of its real-time CORBA ORB (object request broker) middleware targeting Sysgo's embedded Linux distribution. The integration of OIS's ORBexpress RT with Sysgo's ELinOS is intended to improve security and performance for interprocess communications (IPC) in avionics, telecom, and industrial control applications.

As announced in July, the technology alliance brings OIS's CORBA (common object request broker architecture) middleware for IPC to Sysgo's ELinOS embedded Linux distribution for industrial markets.

OIS's ORBexpress RT is an object request broker (ORB) based on the Real-time CORBA (common object request broker) standard, said to enable real-time and embedded devices in diverse environments to “communicate seamlessly.” Available in C++, Ada and Java, ORBexpress “has been recognized repeatedly as the smallest and fastest ORB in the industry by a variety of independent benchmark tests,” claims OIS.

The July announcement suggested that OIS's PCSexpress MILS (Multiple Independent Levels of Security) communication stack would also be ported to ELinOS, but this integration does not yet appear to be ready. The PCSexpress “partitioning communications system” is designed for partitioned environments such as PikeOS, Sysgo's para-virtualizing real-time add-on targeted at safety critical and military/aerospace markets.

Joe Jacob, senior vice president at OIS, stated, “Sysgo has successfully served customers in markets as diverse as military and aerospace, industrial control, automotive and transportation, and consumer electronics. Its broad number of board support packages for embedded Linux — which is important for our customer base — eases the design cycle for developers.”

Availability

The ORBexpress RT version supporting ELinOS is now available at an undisclosed price, OIS said.

 
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