[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From your links:

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Supported Processors

The INTEGRITY Architecture Support Package (ASP) provides CPU initialization, exception handling, and fast context-switching for the processor families listed below (for a complete list of INTEGRITY BSPs click here).

• AppliedMicro Power Architecture
• Analog Devices Blackfin
• ARM Ltd. ARM
• Cavium Networks OCTEON
• Freescale Power Architecture

• Freescale ColdFire
• IBM Power Architecture
• Intel x86/IA/Atom
• Marvell XScale
• MIPS Technologies MIPS
• Texas Instruments DaVinci
• Texas Instruments OMAP

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  Initially I thought they were etching this on the chip....but I now think it is an addition Firmware chip on the MoBo....but I really don't know much of anything about enbedded stuff.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

More:

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Embedded virtualization: INTEGRITY Multivisor

INTEGRITY Multivisor: combining general purpose guest operating systems with a comprehensive ecosystem of real-time applications, middleware, and drivers.

[ROTB]

Looks like ...

1) motherboard
2) operating system

... for all the mentioned CPUs.

Lots of money in this indeed.

[Myrddin]

Thanks for the update. Most of my work has been with either Diamond PC104 x86 boards or custom boards that I designed for the PIC 18F6680 for CAN applications. The PC104 boards used a custom Linux kernel + BusyBox to support my apps. The PIC code was mostly C + the CANopen stack from port GmbH. A tiny bit of PIC assembler for the interrupt service routines was required.

I would love to do my next generation with an embedded RTOS. Ideally, I would incorporate an ability to update firmware remotely. The Linux apps were portable at the source level, but would drift with respect to the onboard shared libraries for the device in the field vs the updated tool sets.