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Developers recognize the complex- International medical technology group Elekta is basing its
ity of embedded software in today’s new generations of equipment on LynuxWorks’ LynxOS-SE
medical devices. The increasing real-time operating system (RTOS) to get to market quickly
need to communicate securely with with systems that deliver high levels of functionality, fault
external medical networks requires a tolerance and safety.
full-featured real-time operating sys-
tem. LynuxWorks operating systems Elekta chose the LynxOS-SE RTOS with hard partitioning
are designed to meet the real-time, so that multiple applications could run concurrently with-
safety and security demands of these out interfering with each other. LynxOS-SE is available as a
medical devices with open-standards- stand-alone OS, as used by Elekta, or as a para-virtualized
based APIs for truly portable applica- guest operating system running on top of the LynxSecure
tion development. virtualization platform.
GAMMA
CAMERA
SCANNER GANTRY
AND PATIENT TABLE
TYPICAL NUCLEAR
MEDICINE SYSTEM
TOPOLOGY
PICTURE ARCHIVE AND
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (PACS)
Secure embedded hypervisor allows The LynuxWorks family of operating totype new medical designs before
for those applications to be reused systems is available across a wide moving to either a proprietary hard-
and joined with applications having variety of hardware platforms. ware solution, or to a commercial-off-
real-time requirements without com- the-shelf (COTS) board. Many of the
promising either the performance or Evaluation platforms from the proces- common COTS boards are supported
security of the individual systems. sor vendors are a good way to pro- by the LynuxWorks operating sys-
tems, including boards from American ny practices, and the LynxOS product cepts for the latest of safe and secure
Portwell, Curtiss Wright, Emerson, GE line has been subjected to safety medical devices.
Fanuc and Kontron. audits to the highest level of aviation
standards. Visit www.lynuxworks.com/solutions/
LynuxWorks has been involved in medical for more information.
many safety and security designs at LynuxWorks operating systems have
the most rigorous levels. LynuxWorks been used in devices for medical
has consistently met the ISO 9001 imaging, nuclear medicine, medical
standard for engineering and compa- diagnostics and now in proof-of-con-
The design securely connects more than 25 For more information, visit the Intel Embedded
wireless biometric sensors to the network, with Community web site at http://www.lynuxworks.
secure virtualization from LynxSecure keeping com/solutions/medical/intel.php .
system components separate from each other.
The Bluetooth networking stack resides in its
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