05 August 2008

VirtualLogix Joins LiMo Foundation

VirtualLogix, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has joined theLiMo Foundation, a consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system (OS) for mobile devices.

“Real-time virtualization software is helping drive adoption of Linux in mobile handset designs,” explained Morgan Gillis, Executive Director, LiMo Foundation. “VirtualLogix joins a growing group of device manufacturers, operators, chipset manufacturers, integrators and independent software vendors within LiMo Foundation that share the collective goal of bringing an open, Linux-based mobile OS to market. The addition of VirtualLogix to our efforts builds upon our momentum and we look forward to working with them to expand and roll out our platform.”

VirtualLogix’s VLX real-time virtualization technology enables Linux to be deployed on low cost feature phones by sharing a single core baseband processor with the Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) supporting the wireless protocol stack, thus avoiding the need for an additional application processor and associated peripheral hardware, the company explained. These low cost VLX-based, and LiMo compliant, Linux feature phone platforms are deployed today by LiMo member companies. In addition, VLX provides Linux-based mobile phones with a standards-conformant advanced security architecture, which enables trusted security services to support m-commerce, financial transactions or DRM protected content distribution. VLX handsets solutions are built on a number of processor families, including ARM.

LiMo is open to all in the mobile industry, including device manufacturers, operators, chipset manufacturers, integrators and independent software vendors. ARM is an associate member of the LiMo Foundation.