19 May 2006

Trango Joins Mobile Forum

Trango Systems has joined the OMTP (Open Mobile Terminal Platform), as part of its contribution to the Trusted Processors and Trusted Environment specifications.

The OMTP is a forum funded by companies from across the mobile phone value chain, set up with the aim of simplifying the customer experience of mobile data services.

Trango technology enables processor secured virtualization for major 32/64 bit RISC architectures, including ARM. It is based on a para-virtualisation approach (no instruction emulation): it ensures full predictability and close-to-native performance, according to the company.

A Trango hypervisor is a compact micro-kernel dividing CPU resources and address space into virtual MMU-enabled processors. Guest Operating Systems run in CPU user-mode and use one or multiple virtual processors (for Symmetric Multi-Processing OSs). It also acts as a very efficient portability layer for guest OSs and RTOSs, providing support for a wide range of processors without any change to the OS's source code.

Trango said that its secure hypervisor technology can enable single-core phone platforms to concurrently run a security stack along with an open operating system such as Symbian, Microsoft Mobile or Linux.

Trango's hypervisor technology is available for a number of SoCs, including ARM.  Applications exist in an array of fields, such as mobile phones., set-top boxes and advanced automotive systems.