Atego has announced support for concurrent multi-processor Garbage Collection (GC) technology on ARM multi-core processors.
This means that Atego’s Aonix Perc Ultra SMP 5.4, a real-time virtual machione for safety-critical systems, supports multi-core ARM processors based on the Cortex A9 processor.
Initial testing of this port was done using a four core ARM processor running Linux.
“Having already demonstrated success with its non-SMP version of Aonix Perc Ultra for ARM processors… our customers were anxious to move up to multi-core functionality,” said James Gambrell, executive chairman at Atego.
“With this SMP version being introduced Atego is pleased to fulfill the customer demand in such an exciting growth market,” said Gambrell.
“Having an advanced real-time virtual machine with the ability to effectively scale across ARM multi-core systems opens exciting new opportunities,” said Ian Rickards, product manager for the processor division at ARM.
Aonix Perc also supports AWT/Swing libraries for embedded platforms giving graphics developers the immediate availability of hundreds of downloadable community projects.
AWT (Abstract Window ToolKit) is a portable GUI library for stand-alone applications and/or applets and provides the connection between a Java application and the native GUI.