MontaVista is touting a partnership with IPSec specialist SafeNet, at the Embedded Systems Conference this week in San Jose, Calif. MontaVista says SafeNet's “QuickSec” toolkits, combined with MontaVista Linux, can help infrastructure and mobile device vendors create products that support MOBIKE (mobile Internet Key Exchange) and other modern IPSec protocols. (more…)

VirtualLogix has introduced a graphical configuration, tuning, and development toolsuite for its platform virtualization products. “VLX Developer” helps embedded system designers configure, build, and optimize virtualized platforms so that multiple operating systems and associated… (more…)

Wind River has updated its tools for on-chip, hardware-assisted debugging of embedded processor-based systems. Workbench 2.6.1 “On-chip Debugging Edition” boasts enhanced support for multi-core processors, compatibility with the latest Linux kernels, and several additional tools said to simplify the debugging process, among other new features, according to the company. (more…)