OSS + ELC EU 2026

With the increasing availability of high-performance Arm® Cortex-A cores and multiple Cortex-M cores in modern MPUs, industrial systems are evolving toward heterogeneous multi-core architectures. For example, compute-intensive applications running on Linux with PREEMPT_RT on A cores, while deterministic real-time tasks running on A core with RTOS (Zephyr or FreeRTOS).
This session will explore the key challenges and corresponding solutions in enabling efficient multi-OS deployment on a single MPU. Topics include:

- Unified life cycle management for booting and orchestrating multiple operating systems across cores using TF-A, U-Boot, and Linux, and fast-boot optimization with TF-A mechanism.
- High-performance inter-core communication mechanisms for low-latency data exchange
- Resource sharing that allow different operating systems to access shared hardware IPs as isolated “virtual peripherals”

The session provides practical insights into building efficient and deterministic heterogeneous systems for industrial applications.