VirtualLogix, Inc. provides real-time

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software and related development tools for

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s. The company was founded in 2002. In September 2010, VirtualLogix was acquired by

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Products

Real-time hypervisors

VirtualLogix's VLX

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provides concurrent support for rich operating systems like

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and Windows, and in-house or commercial

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s on general purpose processors and DSPs. VLX supports a variety of 32-bit/64-bit processors, single and

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processors, including processors from

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and ARM and Power architectures. VLX supports devices with and without

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s and can take advantage of hardware virtualization and security support.

Virtualization enabled high availability

VirtualLogix's vHA is an add-on to VLX that provides

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capability for embedded systems using

and

processors.

Development environment

VirtualLogix’s VLX Developer is an

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-based graphical environment, which is used to configure, build, monitor and optimize VLX virtualized platforms.

Competitors

Today, their competitors include Trango's Virtual Processors,

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OKL4
and, to a lesser extent, open source

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s such as L4,

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and

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Notes

VirtualLogix was founded as Jaluna and rebranded as VirtualLogix in September 2006.

External links

VirtualLogix homepage
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