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NICTA L4 MicroKernel To Utilise Select QUALCOMM Chipsets
29 November 2005

http://www.arm.com/iqonline/news/marketnews/11144.html

National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Information and Communications Technology research is collaborating with QUALCOMM to use NICTA versions of the L4 Microkernel and the Iguana operating system together with select versions of QUALCOMM’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets.

The NICTA’s L4 microkernel and Iguana OS will be adopted by Qualcomm for some mobile phone chipsets. It will be the first NICTA technology to be commercially adopted.

"We are pleased to be working with QUALCOMM to utilise the L4 microkernel as the foundation for a trusted computing platform on embedded wireless devices," said Professor Gernot Heiser, leader of NICTA’s Embedded, Real-Time, and Operating Systems (ERTOS) program.

“Our L4/Iguana operating system has the potential to revolutionise the use of embedded systems around the world,” added Heiser. “It is currently being evaluated for deployment by a number of small-to-medium-sized enterprises in Australia and multinational corporations.”

The L4/Iguana technology is being developed for a number of platforms, including ARM. ERTOS hopes to make the ARM version the "fastest operating system with memory protection, and the first that provides a virtual-machine environment for running Linux”

L4/Iguana is part of a general embedded OS framework developed by NICTA’s ERTOS Research Program located at the Kensington Neville Roach Research Laboratory in Sydney, Australia. The software is based on previous work conducted on the L4 microkernel by NICTA in partnership with the University of Karlsruhe in Germany and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.