eMuCo partner TU Dresden is pleased to announce the release of the operating system framework developed during the eMuCo project as open source software

The eMuCo software platform which enables efficient use of Multi-Core on mobile embedded computing devices by using virtualization techniques has been released as open source on June 8th 2010. The platform is based on a small operating system kernel accompanied with various operating system components allowing manifold usage scenarios.

"The system opens access to the latest embedded multi-core architectures offering efficient programming and processing of a broad range of different applications, ranging from special purpose applications such as protocol implementation to whole virtualized commodity operating systems" said Adam Lackorzynski operating system architect. The system has been designed with modern security principles from the ground up enabling fine grained access and communication control between components, bringing the control mechanisms to a new level. A broad range of applications is supported by different virtualization techniques ranging from language runtimes up to whole operating systems.

The rapid development of digital communication has created capabilities in the wireless networks that the mobile phones have been only beginning to exploit with the web amenity applications available on the called smartphones as Blackberry and iPhone. "Multicore & virtualization solution enables higher processing capacity keeping the power consumption with the added-value of security and flexibility to bring services and applications fast to market making possible a new generation of smartphones" said Maria Elizabeth Gonzalez co-coordinator of the eMuCo project, "It is expected that the emerging multicore&virtualization technology revolutionize how a mobile phone will be perceived and open new business models in the telecommunication market". The European Union supported the eMuCo project initiative under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research and technological development with 2.9M EUR to foster innovations in the European mobile computing market.

For more information please visit www.emuco.eu.
The software platform can be downloaded on:

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4Re/
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/