Imaging and Medical Applications

Developers of imaging and medical applications are choosing commercial-grade Linux for its reliability, robust architecture, core networking support, native web interfaces, desktop peripheral support, and multiple graphical interface options. These applications also require high throughput and deterministic response times, both of which are available from MontaVista Linux.

Medical applications include:

Television and Home Entertainment

MontaVista enables the world's leading consumer electronics companies to bring innovative, networked home entertainment products to market rapidly and cost-effectively.

MontaVista brings advanced features and consumer-grade reliability to a wide range of advanced, digital devices for the home. MontaVista Linux enables devices based on a wide range of processor architectures and reference hardware designs, provides a complete feature set beyond the base Linux functioanltiy, as well as a graphics system based on X Windows for the development of new user interfaces.

TV and Home Entertainment developers who choose MontaVista Linux as their development platform can bring their products to market more rapidly, with more control over their development platform and fewer risks. This helps them achieve lower cost, greater competitive advantage, and an improved user experience.

Examples of TV and Home Entertainment Devices built on MontaVista Linux include:

Mobile Devices

Handset manufacturers are discovering that traditional proprietary platforms no longer provide the flexibility they require to differentiate themselves, and are too costly and difficult to extend to provide the innovative services required by mobile operators. Commercial-grade Linux, on the other hand, gives operators a flexible, open platform they can tailor to meet their development platform requirements. And as mobile phones become smartphones and incorporate more advanced computing device features, Linux is emerging as an ideal platform to develop this functionality. Further, Linux offers the opportunity to standardize platforms deployed in networks, reducing the amount of time necessary to deploy applications and services and thereby reduce operating expenses.

MontaVista has incorporated technical advances into its Linux offering that have resulted in dramatically improved response time. These improvements enable MontaVista to meet the "hard real-time" requirements of baseband processing while also delivering rich application, gaming, and multimedia capabilities - all driven by a single processor.

Other technological advances designed for mobile phones in MontaVista Linux include:

Because MontaVista Linux is fully open, handset manufacturers can easily layer additional features and capabilities as needed to create a wide range of differentiated devices addressing various market segments and device classes. This allows device manufacturers to streamline their internal development costs while maintaining architectural freedom and flexibility. MontaVista Linux provides a highly scalable platform that helps reduce fragmentation while providing the control and functionality necessary to prevent commoditization and enable the delivery of advanced application and data services.

Industrial Automation

Manufacturers of industrial control systems are leveraging commercial-grade Linux to develop new,connected applications, as well as to replace legacy systems based on DOS, older UNIX implementations, and a variety of RTOS platforms.

MontaVista Linux includes a number of features tailored to meet the requirements of the industrial instrumentation and control environment. These include rock-solid reliability, sub-millisecond application real-time response, high-performance networking, graphical output option, support for flash and RAM-based file systems, scalable memory footprints, security, and industry-standard APIs.

Industrial automation applications include:

Aerospace and Defense

Linux is emerging as the deployment platform for next-generation intelligent systems for land, air, and sea-based applications for both civilian and military missions. Support for COTS hardware (CompactPCI, VME and key CPUs), high performance standards-based networking, POSIX APIs, distributed computing (CORBA, MPI), high-resolution graphics, secure operation, and real-time responsiveness make MontaVista Linux ideal for general and mission-critical applications in aerospace and defense.

Applications include: