Jaluna has partnered with Accelerated Technology, a division of Mentor Graphics, on a combined Nucleus/Linux offering that the companies claim allows real-time Nucleus applications to run side-by-side with Linux applications on the same system, without additional hardware, and without requiring changes to the applications.

The combined offering is based on Jaluna's OSware for Linux, a low-level software product that partitions the physical resources of a processor between two operating system instances. Jaluna first announced its OSWare “platform virtualization” technology in May of 2004, and the technology has been used in set-top boxes, mobile phones, and in the networking infrastructure market, according to Jaluna.

Jaluna/OSware enables multiple OSes to run concurrently on the same processor
Another claimed advantage of Jaluna's OSWare is that it does not enforce any choice of development tools upon developers, who are free to use any tools they like.

According to Accelerated Technology, Nucleus PLUS is highly scalable, and features a small memory footprint. It is offered under a royalty-free license, with source code.

Robert Day, director of marketing at Mentor Graphics, said, “Jaluna OSware, Linux Edition, will allow developers to not only use the Nucleus RTOS, but also the wide range of embedded products that surround it, such as embedded middleware, an Eclipse-based development environment, and a comprehensive prototyping suite.”

For a detailed description of Jaluna's OSWare, be sure to read our detailed interview with senior Jaluna executives Michel Gien and Michel Genard.

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