Open Kernel Labs has introduced its roadmap for supporting advanced mobile chipsets built on ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 MPCore multicore processors. OK Labs, which provides embedded visualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, targets use cases that include SMP on dual-core, tri-core, and quad-core mobile CPUs as well as asymmetric multicore systems with ARM processors dedicated to different processing functions.

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The company’s OKL4 already supports a number of shipping multicore ARM chipsets, such as the Qualcomm MSM7201A. By adding the roadmap for mobile chipsets built on ARM Cortex processors, OKL4 can accompany the rollout of the latest ARM technology by the gamut of ARM CPU licensees, such as Broadcom, Freescale, Marvell, NXP, Qualcomm, Samsung, and STMicroelectronics.

The OKL4 Secure HyperCell platform addresses a range of applications and use cases for virtualization and multicore CPUs. The most common is the need to manage and distribute the capabilities of multiple CPU cores to one or more simplex (non-SMP) client operating systems (e.g., a legacy real-time operating system, or RTOS). Another is to facilitate the sharing of multiple cores among both simplex and SMP client operating systems (RTOS, Windows Mobile, SymbianOS, and Linux). For these and other cases, OKL4 provides critical support for load balancing, multi-threading, and inter-client communication in a secure and reliable virtualization platform.

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