Virtualization ready to fly

When Airbus Designers decided to reduce the complexity of the internal electronic systems, they dug out a concept that’s been known in business IT for decades - virtualization.
“Virtualization is gaining traction in the embedded systems market. It allows safe and secure partitioning of software functions on a common hardware platform”, said OpenSynergy’s CTO Stefaan Sonck Thiebaut
As well as reducing hardware complexity it is expected to reduce weight, an important factor in the aircraft industry.

Read more in the EE Times article.