| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Embedded software |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California |
Key people | Tim Reed, CEO, Amanda Blum, CFO, Alan Maillet, CRO, Will Keegan, CTO Gurjot Singh, Chairman |
| Products | Operating Systems, Separation Kernel (Hypervisor), Tools |
| Website | www.lynx.com |
Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. (formerly LynuxWorks)[1] is a San Jose, California software company founded in 1988.[2] Lynx specializes in secure virtualization and open, reliable, certifiable real-time operating systems (RTOSes). Originally known as Lynx Real-Time Systems, the company changed its name to LynuxWorks in 2000 after acquiring, and merging with, ISDCorp (Integrated Software & Devices Corporation), an embedded systems company with a strong Linux background. In May 2014, the company changed its name to Lynx Software Technologies.
Over 30 years of processor evolution, Lynx has crafted and adapted platform architectures for builders of safety- and security-critical software systems. Lynx embraced open standards from its inception, with its original RTOS, LynxOS, featuring a UNIX-like user model and standard POSIX interfaces to embedded developers. LynxOS-178 is developed and certified to the FAA DO-178C DAL A safety standard and received the first and only FAA Reusable Software Component certificate for an RTOS. It supports ARINC API and FACE standards.
Lynx has created technology that has been deployed in thousands of designs and millions of products made by leading communications, industrial, transportation, avionics, aerospace/defense and consumer electronics companies. In 1989, LynxOS, the company's flagship RTOS, was selected for use in the NASA/IBM Space Station Freedom project.[3] Lynx Software Technologies operating systems are also used in medical, industrial and communications systems around the world.[4]
In early 2020, Lynx announced that the TR3 modernization program for the joint strike fighter had adopted Lynx’s LYNX MOSA.ic software development framework. The F-35 Lightning II Program (also known as the Joint Strike Fighter Program) is the US Department of Defense's focal point for defining affordable next generation strike aircraft weapon systems It is intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, and their allies. After a competition between the Boeing X-32 and the Lockheed Martin X-35, a final design was chosen based on the X-35. This is the F-35 Lightning II, which will replace various tactical aircraft.
The company’s technology is also used in medical, industrial and communications systems around the world by companies like Airbus, Bosch, Denso, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Rohde and Schwartz and Toyota.[2]