The prpl Foundation recently published its first newsletter, as a way of extending communications with the embedded systems community. Imperas CEO and Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) founder Simon Davidmann wrote an article for the newsletter, titled “prpl Security Group and Imperas Address IoT Security Challenges via Multi-Domain Virtualization.” That’s quite the long title. What was Simon saying?
The full article has more detail, but here’s a summary:
The prpl Security PEG is defining a security roadmap to get from today’s software-virtualized solutions to full hardware supported virtualization, enabling multi-domain security across processors, heterogeneous SoCs and systems built on these technologies including connected devices, routers and hubs. As a provider of tools for embedded software development, Imperas’ unique perspective and added value to the collaborative PEG is in the tools for developing, testing and demonstrating the secure software stack. Imperas is cooperating with the embedded software providers in the PEG to build Extendable Platform Kits™ (EPKs™) to accelerate development of the individual elements of the secure stack, and enable the easy analysis and verification of these elements in isolation as well as integrated into the complete stack.
The first product of this collaboration is an Extendable Platform Kit (EPK) using an Imperas Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) virtual platform based on the OVP model of the MIPS M5150, with SELTECH’s FEXER OX hypervisor and the Toppers (Tron) real time operating system (RTOS) as three individual guest operating systems (see Figure 2). EPKs are designed to help users accelerate embedded software development, debug and test. The platform and peripheral models included in the EPKs are open source, so that users can easily add new models to the platform as well as modify the existing peripheral models.
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