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 and the MontaVista Linux preemptible kernel.

Applications for Network Printers and Patient Monitors include:

Television and Home Entertainment

For years, MontaVista has enabled the world's leading consumer electronics companies to bring innovative, networked home entertainment products to market rapidly and cost-effectively. Based on this experience, MontaVista provides the most advanced systems software platform for television and home entertainment products.

MontaVista brings advanced features and consumer-grade reliability to a wide range of advanced, digital devices for the home. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition enables devices based on a wide range of CPU architectures and reference hardware designs, as well as a graphics system based on X Windows for the development of 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.

TV and Home Entertainment Devices built on MontaVista Linux include:

Automotive Infotainment

As the cost of electronic components in automobiles approach half of the overall cost of the vehicles, designing and building cost-effective yet feature-rich automotive information and entertainment systems is emerging as a critical success factor. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition is designed with the requirements of the automotive industry in mind.

The MontaVista Linux graphics system enables customized in-vehicle infotainment solutions, and the flexibility of the Linux-based development platform enables the rapid development of advanced technology with the complete control provided by open source. At the same time, MontaVista Linux' pre-integrated environment mitigates development risks and reduces overall development costs.

Applications in Automotive Infotainment include:

Instrumentation and Control

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

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 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.

Instrumentation and Control 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: