icleBody”>Over the past few years, virtualisation technology has been widely adopted in the embedded enterprise market to make the best use of ever more powerful microprocessors with multiple processing cores. Virtualisation has certainly proven itself in the back office environment and this is now quickly spreading to include the embedded market.
Virtualisation of enterprise servers allows a single physical server to perform as multiple, logical servers, hosting multiple instances of Windows, Linux or other operating systems.
These systems are often using dual- and quad-core processors from Intel and AMD. The move to multicore is accelerating, and most vendors have presented their “many-core” roadmap for beyond four cores. The multi- and many-core chips from the enterprise market are now making their way into the embedded market with more than 25 percent of embedded processors that were shipped in 2008 being multicore.
