CGX Overview

MONTAVISTA LINUX CGX PROVIDES A ROBUST CARRIER GRADE PLATFORM

Enhance your embedded device development with the Carrier Grade reliability, security, and serviceability offered by MontaVista® Linux® Carrier Grade eXpress (CGX). As a cornerstone in MontaVista's product lineup, CGX is a robust operating system equipped with Carrier Grade specifications, ensuring unparalleled performance and security for a diverse array of interconnected smart applications across industries.

 

 

CGX 5.0 is MontaVista’s 15th generation Carrier Grade Linux. It is by design Yocto 5.0 compatible with the 6.6 LTS kernel, GCC 13 and CLANG 18 toolchain. Customers will have access to a professionally supported Linux distribution to develop a wide range of embedded products on major CPU architectures, including x86, ARM, PPC, MIPS and RISC-V.

KEY FEATURES

Real-Time Linux Performance

Engineered with real-time performance capabilities, MontaVista Linux CGX is indispensable for applications requiring precise and timely responses. Ideal for critical systems like control systems and real-time data processing, CGX allows your applications to operate with maximum efficiency.

IoT-Ready

In the era of IoT, MontaVista CGX is tailored to power intelligent interconnected devices. Its features align seamlessly with the latest market requirements, enabling seamless integration, enhanced security, and optimal performance. For example, embedded with the MVEdge product design, CGX offers pre-built images for common IoT, Robotics and Industrial use-cases with top-end graphics and AI/ML pre-enabled capabilities.

Built-in Security Design For Long-Term Maintenance

With an out-of-the-box “Secure by Default" configuration, MontaVista CGX facilitates robust security for applications running on a CGX-enabled Board Support Package (BSP). This feature, included in the CGX license, ensures an off-the-shelf secure Linux, combining reliability and more than 10 years of supported lifecycle per version.

MontaVista CGX also streamlines hassle-free field maintenance, enabling seamless updates, configurations, and post-deployment maintenance. Our long-term supported Linux platform will ensure constant good health of your embedded systems and products.

WHY CHOOSE MONTAVISTA LINUX CGX?

Carrier Grade Reliability

Adhering to the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) specification version 5.0, MontaVista CGX meets the industry standards for availability, serviceability, performance, and security. In other words, choosing MontaVista CGX allows you to be compliant without even trying!

Flexible Configuration

MontaVista CGX provides a highly configurable and flexible package, allowing you to tailor the distribution to match your product requirements precisely. Whether you require a real-time Linux environment, application portability, or dynamic configuration, CGX has your back!

Market-Based Customization

MontaVista CGX facilitates diverse embedded applications in networking and communications, aerospace and defense, instrumentation and control, IoT and medical electronics. CGX Profiles offer a unique set of key features for market-specific use-cases.

LEVERAGE MONTAVISTA LINUX CGX TODAY!

For more than 20 years, MontaVista Linux products have been adopted in millions of devices across industries. Choose MontaVista Linux CGX to experience carrier-grade unique features and build your next-gen embedded applications with a reliable, secure and high quality Linux distribution. For further information, please check out CGX datasheet.

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