The new Business Support Platform (BSP) expands the long-standing collaboration between the two companies, providing a trusted European hardware and software foundation for critical security and safety embedded applications.
Designed for demanding markets such as defense, transportation, and industrial automation, the combined solution helps system developers accelerate platform integration while benefiting from PikeOS's virtualization and desiccation capabilities on Kontron's proven VPX platform.
Ready for deployment on critical embedded systems,
developers can immediately deploy PikeOS on Kontron's VX3060 or on Kontron systems such as the HARAKAN-F2, which integrates the VX3060, using a fully supported BSP. This significantly reduces platform integration effort and accelerates the development of secure, mixed-criticality embedded systems.
The BSP supports key board functionalities, including Ethernet, UART, thermal sensors, voltage monitoring sensors, and mass storage interfaces. Additional platform security capabilities, such as Trusted Platform Module (TPM) integration and Secure Boot, are available upon request to address cyber resilience challenges and meet platform integrity requirements.
BSP availability accelerates time to market, shortens software deployment phases, and provides developers with a solid foundation for building certified and security-critical systems.
Secure and Mixed-Criticality Virtualization Support
: The Kontron VX3060 and HARAKAN-F-based systems are designed for deployment in harsh operating environments that demand ruggedized computing platforms. With PikeOS support, customers can immediately leverage PikeOS's advanced partitioning and virtualization capabilities on the platform.
PikeOS can function as a secure hypervisor, as well as a combination of hypervisor and real-time operating system, all in a single product. This flexibility allows developers to consolidate multiple applications with varying levels of criticality onto a single hardware platform, while maintaining strict separation between workloads. Critical real-time functions can operate alongside Linux, middleware, or application environments, enabling efficient mixed-criticality architectures that reduce system complexity, size, weight, power consumption, and lifecycle costs.
Strengthening a European technology ecosystem
As demand for trusted European technologies continues to grow in critical sectors, the collaboration between SYSGO and Kontron offers customers an integrated technology stack, combining proven embedded hardware, real-time virtualization, and advanced cybersecurity capabilities.
“Our customers increasingly expect embedded computing platforms to be backed by mature software ecosystems,” said Sébastien Vitre, product manager at Kontron. “By extending PikeOS support to the VX3060, we are providing developers with a validated hardware and software platform that reduces integration effort and enables faster deployment of secure and mixed-criticality applications.”
“The availability of PikeOS on Kontron’s VX3060 demonstrates the continued success of our cooperation with Kontron,” said Carsten Beck, Head of Partner Management at SYSGO. “Together, we offer customers a European technology stack that combines robust hardware, advanced virtualization, real-time capabilities, and the security features required for next-generation embedded systems.”.
The BSP is now available and covers the basic hardware interfaces needed for system commissioning and application development, with additional security features available upon customer request.
