04 August 2008

TRANGO Demos Secure Platform Virtualization On TI OMAP 3

TRANGO Virtual Processors, a member of the ARM Connected Community, said it has delivered greater isolation and portability of operating systems and drivers on the OMAP 3 platform from Texas Instruments, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor.

The TRANGO Hypervisor provides a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, µC-OSII, µITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3 platform, based on ARM Cortex-A8 processor, offers up to three timexs performance gain over ARM11 based processors, the company explained. The combination delivers isolation, flexibility and cost optimization benefits to the design of  convergent wireless devices.

“Our product allows developers to eliminate porting costs associated with peripheral drivers and makes rich OS porting extremely fast” explained Pierre Coulombeau, Chief Operating Officer at TRANGO Virtual Processors. “With the release of the TRANGO Hypervisor based on TI’s OMAP3430 processor, customers benefit from a highly portable platform with best-of-class hardware, the market’s leading isolation architecture, and an unprecedented ability to port software swiftly”

Leveraging the high-performance and low power consumption of TI’s OMAP3430 multimedia applications processor, the TRANGO Hypervisor is targeted at mobile platform designers who are looking to find the optimal balance between the effective reuse of legacy features, the development of new functionality, the secure sharing of common hardware resources, time-to-market, and cost
Constraint, TRANGO explained.
 
With secure platform virtualization, OEMs benefit from an inherently secure architecture, easier porting of a rich OS or RTOS to the hardware, and highly portable drivers. On the TI OMAP3430 processor the TRANGO Hypervisor offers the ability for OEMs to reduce or even eliminate driver changes in moving from one OS platform to another OS platform, with a positive impact on the resultant development and validation effort.

“TRANGO’s Hypervisor, when running on the OMAP 3 platform, provides mobile manufacturers with a powerful platform software flexibility and re-use ” said Markus Tremmel, worldwide wireless ecosystem manager at Texas Instruments. “Mobile manufacturers get flexibility in their choice of operating system.”

The TRANGO product is available on the ARMv5/ARMv6/v7 and MIPS32/MIPS64 embedded architectures and supports a number of operating systems.