LynuxWorks, GE Fanuc To Collaborate

LynuxWorks, San Jose, Calif., and GE Fanuc Embedded Systems, Charlottesville, Va., will create “Centers of Excellence,” offering advanced developer support to the aerospace and defense industries for systems based on the two companies' products.
The first centers will be GE Fanuc facilities in Towcester, U.K., and Raleigh, N.C. Engineers there as well as developers in other locations will have access to LynuxWorks product releases, including access to the source code of LynuxWorks board support packages and device drivers.
GE Fanuc Embedded Systems plans to make the LynuxWorks LynxOS 5 Real-Time Operating System available across the company's range of VPX-based single board computers and Digital Signal Processing systems.
"Increasingly, our customers are telling us that they want us to take responsibility for base-level hardware and software integration, freeing them to focus on higher level issues, and this relationship with LynuxWorks enables us to respond to that customer requirement," said Andy West, global product manager with GE Fanuc Embedded Systems.