Virtualization allows embedded systems to run real-time and non-real-time code on a single hardware platform, to process both critical and non-critical code, and to display graphically rich user interfaces. Below, I am providing some links to community posts on this topic that I think are particularly useful:
White paper: Embedded Virtualization and Cyber Security for Industrial Automation
Read about a partitioned platform approach that consolidates firewall and VPN stacks into virtual appliances with multiple, autonomous operating environments without proprietary workloads or extensive para-virtualization.
White paper: The Benefits of Virtualization for Embedded Systems
Learn how enabling multiple OSs to run on a single hardware platform, virtualization empowers developers to: consolidate previously separate functions to reduce system size, cost, and power; bring innovation to market faster while preserving legacy code; and enhance security, safety, and availability through application isolation and software redundancy
Blog: Extending Intel® Virtualization Technology to the Network
Performance of virtual systems is critical to the success of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Check out a new Ethernet controller that extends Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT) beyond the processor itself and to the MAC.
Article: Cut Automation Cost and Complexity with Virtualization
Industrial environments are full of expensive single-purpose computing systems. Learn how a new virtualization kit can help you cut costs by combining multiple systems on a single platform.
White paper: Achieving Real-time Performance on a Virtualized Industrial Control Platform
Virtualization enables a computing platform to share its resources across multiple workloads- but can it deliver real-time and deterministic response required by advanced automation processes? Read about interrupt latency measured in an Intel industrial platform.
White paper: Embedded Virtualization Enables Consolidated Cyber Security Solution Protecting Windows Clients
Explore a partitioned platform approach that consolidates firewall and VPN stacks into virtual appliances on a single system with multiple, autonomous operating environments without proprietary workloads or extensive para-virtualization.
White paper: Using Virtualization to Differentiate Industrial Products
In this Dell OEM paper, read about how Dell PowerEdge VRTX and Intel ® Virtualization Technology extend the benefits of virtualization into industrial automation and process management solutions.
Blog: Industrial network security from the cloud to the connected edge
Learn how virtualization helps deliver cyber threat prevention through software and middleware solutions that run on Intel silicon with Intel® vPro technology, enabling comprehensive security for Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) from the edge to the cloud, and back again.
White paper: Leveraging Virtualization in Aerospace & Defense Applications
Review some of the more interesting virtualization usage models and implementation insights arising from real-world projects in Aerospace & Defense.
Blog: Using Virtualization in Embedded Applications
Check out a new Intel infographic that illustrates virtualization in embedded devices. See what it gets you, and what are the new challenges and solutions you need to know about when developing embedded solutions that rely on virtualization.
Have you read any related content that you would recommend to the community? What other aspects of Virtualization would you like to see covered?
Felix
J. Felix McNulty
Community Moderator
Intel® Embedded Community
(Intel contractor)