Reference Designs

Industrial embedded systems are balancing traditional and proven real-time solutions based on bare-metal or real-time operating system (RTOS) with new requirements to add cloud connectivity and advanced graphical interfaces. Linux is often the most efficient way to provide sophisticated and secure cloud connectivity and enable advanced human machine interfaces (HMIs). Modern embedded processors such as the Sitara AM5728 processor offer the ability to integrate the functionality of a real-time application with Linux. This reference design uses the ARM® Cortex®-A15 cores and an open source static hypervisor called Jailhouse to support the coexistence of real-time and Linux applications.