SYSGO, a provider of real-time operating systems and hypervisors for safety- and security-critical embedded applications, and Kontron, a global provider of IoT/Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), have revealed the availability of a validated Board Support Package (BSP) for the Kontron VX3060 rugged VPX plug-in card based on 11th Generation Intel Core processors
The new BSP extends the collaboration between the two companies, providing a European hardware and software foundation for safety, security, and mission-critical embedded applications.
Built for demanding markets such as defence, transportation, and industrial automation, the combined solution helps system developers accelerate platform integration while benefiting from PikeOS’ virtualisation and separation capabilities running on Kontron’s VPX computing platform.
Developers can deploy PikeOS on the Kontron VX3060 or on Kontron systems such as HARAKAN-F2 embedding the VX3060, using a fully supported BSP to reduce platform integration effort and accelerate the development of secure, mixed-criticality embedded systems.
The BSP supports the board’s key functionalities, including Ethernet, UART, thermal sensors, voltage monitoring sensors, and mass storage interfaces. Additional platform security capabilities such as Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration and Secure Boot are available on request to meet cyber resilience challenges and platform integrity requirements.
The BSP accelerates time-to-market, shortens software bring-up, and gives developers a starting point for building certified, security-critical systems.
The Kontron VX3060 and the HARAKAN-F systems based on it are designed for deployment in demanding operating environments and suit transportation, defence, industrial automation, and other applications requiring ruggedised computing platforms. PikeOS support enables customers to leverage PikeOS’s advanced partitioning and virtualisation capabilitieS on the platform.
PikeOS operates as a secure hypervisor and as a combined hypervisor and real-time operating system in one product. This enables developers to consolidate multiple applications with different criticality levels onto a single hardware platform while maintaining strict separation between workloads. Critical real-time functions can operate alongside Linux, middleware, or application environments, allowing efficient mixed-criticality architectures that reduce system complexity, size, weight, power consumption, and lifecycle costs.
As demand for trusted European technologies grows across critical industries, the collaboration between SYSGO and Kontron provides customers with an integrated technology stack that combines proven embedded hardware, real-time virtualisation, and advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
Sébastien Vitre, product manager at Kontron, said, “Our customers increasingly expect embedded computing platforms to be supported by mature software ecosystems. By extending PikeOS support to the VX3060, we provide developers with a validated hardware and software platform that reduces integration effort and enables faster deployment of secure and mixed-criticality applications.”
Carsten Beck, partner management at SYSGO, said, “The availability of PikeOS on the Kontron VX3060 demonstrates the continued success of our cooperation with Kontron. Together, we provide customers with a European technology stack that combines rugged hardware, advanced virtualisation, real-time capabilities, and security features needed for next-generation embedded systems.”
The BSP is available immediately and includes support for the core hardware interfaces required for system bring-up and application development. Customers can integrate additional security features, including TPM-based trusted computing and Secure Boot, to meet their requirements.
