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Chapter 13. LynxOS

Table of Contents
Hardware characteristics
Process management
Memory management
Inter-Process communication
Time and timers
Driver programming
Quality of Service
Network
Filesystems
Trace and debug
Miscelanea
Modularity

This document describes the main features of LynxOS®

LynxOS® is used in aeronautics and safety critical systems since it is presented as an higly dependable and fault-tolerant system.

LynxOS® is already available for a large number of processors and does its best to optimize their use, it envolves in particular very good memory management.

LynxOS® is a UNIX®/POSIX conforming RTOS. It is fully conformant with POSIX interfaces for core services (1003.1), real-time extensions(.1b), and thread extensions(.1c)

Hardware characteristics

Supported processors:

A large variety of processors are supported. Among them the most important are :

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