Hardware virtualization for rapid and secure CE product development and life cycle management

The CE market demands such flexibility and fast results that the developer teams have serious difficulties to follow, unless they adopt a unique HW/SW platform and smoothly evolve it over time. However, this reasonable approach results to tying them up with their initial choices and the specific electronic components that they have modeled. In order to cope with this phenomenon, new SW architecture and design patterns that make possible the virtualization of hardware components are presented in this paper, and the experience of their application in the OS porting process is reported. Finally, it is explained why they can further contribute to the evolution of a platform independent CE application development paradigm.