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News Release from: Aonix
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2005
Virtual machine to feature in defence
system
Aonix is playing a significant role in the Felin project, an armament system that will optimise the communications, defence and strategic capabilities of foot soldiers in the field.
Aonix is playing a significant role in the Felin Project, an armament system that will optimise the communications, defence and strategic capabilities of foot soldiers in the field The Felin system, a French acronym translated as "foot soldier with integrated equipment and connections", uses the Aonix Perc virtual machine as a run-time environment for parts of the application written in Java language requiring high reliability and determinism
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Felin system includes a complete armament system focused on the foot soldier that will significantly improve the foot soldiers' capability and reactivity in the field.
With Felin, the soldier will be able to carry out mission objectives at day or night.
Operating within a larger communications network, the infantry will be able to transmit data and video images in addition to communicating via radiotelegraphy.
Ballistic protection of the soldiers will be optimised with specific protection against NBC (nuclear, biologic, chemical) attacks.
The wearability of equipment has been tailored to ensure that it will not decrease operational performance of soldiers.
"Our participation in the Felin project confirms our leadership position in the embedded real-time Java language community", said Jacques Brygier, VP of Marketing at Aonix.
"We are honoured to have been chosen as a key supplier for this important project".
The Direction Generale de l'Armement (the French defence department) initiated the Felin project in March 2004.
At that time, the integrated programme management team notified industrial firm Sagem that they had been chosen for development, industrialisation and manufacturing of Felin project equipment.
The Felin equipment will become standard fare for French infantry units in 2006, contributing significantly to the readiness and responsiveness of troups.
Perc is a clean-room virtual machine expressly created for demanding embedded and real-time systems requiring J2SE support.
Perc delivers the ease and efficiency of Java Standard Edition support without sacrificing integrity, performance, or real-time behaviour.
It offers AOT and JIT compilation, remote debug support, deterministic garbage collection, standard graphics and extended commercial RTOS support.
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