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The Challenges of Delivering a Secure MILS Product
Paul Chen, Wind River

Multiple independent levels of security (MILS) is a software architecture that enables multiple separated components and applications to operate, communicate, and be certified as dictated by high-assurance security policies, which dramatically reduce development and certification evaluation time and cost. Its key principle is to achieve high assurance at acceptable cost through a "divide and conquer" methodology, through separation, composition, and layered assurance. VxWorks MILS, Wind River's MILS architecture product, provides three key advantages: (1) high performance using a patented, two-level OS technology; (2) faster and less costly development, certification, change, and recertification through true modular component independence during configuration and build/link/load and certification; and (3) reduced development time and cost, using an open industry-standard tools suite. This presentation will include a brief introduction to MILS, explain Wind River's approach to MILS, provide detail about Wind River's VxWorks MILS product, and discuss the benefits of Wind River's MILS solution.

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The IBM Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell/B.E.) for Aerospace and Defense Applications
IBM

IBM and Wind River are adapting the Cell/B.E. for a wide range of aerospace and defense applications. While this new platform already exhibits outstanding performance, space, and power characteristics, VxWorks and Wind River Workbench are particularly critical for low-latency applications as well as overall programmability. This IBM session will focus on how the Cell/B.E., in combination with Wind River, is being used for ultra-high performance platforms in automated target recognition, radar, simulation, modeling, and surveillance.

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Wind River Federated and IMA Avionics Solutions
Chip Downing, Wind River

As the volume of software aboard aircraft continues to grow, the demand for transitioning from federated to Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) systems, along with mixing applications with different safety requirements, continues to increase. In addition, commercial and military compliance with the avionics standards RTCA DO-178B in North America and EUROCAE ED-12B in Europe is also more prevalent. To enable rapid deployment of safety-certified embedded software components, Wind River has developed the industry's leading set of avionics RTOS solutions for both federated and IMA/ARINC 653 systems, accompanied with complete DO-178B certification artifacts. This presentation is an overview of Wind River's avionics product line and the related certification artifact DVDs that contain proven, industry-leading DO-178B/ED-12B safety certification evidence.

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Selecting the Right Linux for Demanding A&D Linux-Based Products
Jason Pettit, Wind River

Increasingly, Linux is being considered as a platform for embedded equipment used in aerospace and defense (A&D). Deploying successful systems quickly and reliably requires a commercial Linux platform that meets the demanding requirements of A&D. This presentation covers the value Wind River brings to embedded Linux developers beyond what can be achieved with roll-your-own or competitive approaches for A&D applications.

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Building Multiprocessor Embedded Applications
Darian Wong, Curtiss-Wright

High-performance DSP systems require an ever increasing number of processing elements—whether they be processors, multiple cores within processors, or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)—to complete the task at hand. Building complex embedded applications that span these multiple processing nodes presents challenges in terms of task/thread synchronization, real-time event handling, I/O bandwidth, interconnect bottleneck management, and overall management across the system. These systems also require specialized tools to debug and validate operation due to their many processing nodes and networked interconnect architectures.

This presentation introduces the wide range of tools Curtiss-Wright offers for increasing developer productivity, including targeted tools that provide insight into the configuration, real-time performance, and network traffic of the system under development.

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Effective Model Driven-Development (MDD) for Complex A&D Systems
Marty Bakal, Telelogic

Studies show that software is the main bottleneck for many embedded and real-time systems projects. According to Embedded Market Forecasters, 56% of all embedded designs are behind schedule, and software development is responsible for 80% of these design delays. UML-based model driven development (MDD) solutions such as Telelogic Rhapsody combined with Eclipse-based development environments such as Wind River Workbench solve this problem by accelerating embedded device development, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation for A&D applications.

This presentation, which includes a practical demonstration, will show you how you can cut your development effort by 30% by leveraging the Rhapsody MDD and Workbench development environment in a completely integrated solution chain.

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Harnessing the Power of SMP Solutions
Isidro Gonzalez, Wind River

It has become clear that the traditional way of getting more performance from your system by increasing the frequency of the processor cannot and will not continue, due to physical limitations such as power consumption. The solution is to put multiple processing cores on a single chip. The question is how do you move a single processor application to a multicore solution? How do you debug a system in a multicore environment, and what are best practices in multicore debugging today? This session addresses the challenges of multicore migration and the tools available for development.

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Using Wind River Lab Diagnostics to Enable Real-Time Testing of Software on Live Devices
Leo Samson, Wind River

In today's complex systems of systems, more software is running on each microprocessor. And to complicate matters, development schedules are fixed or shorter. As a result, software engineers write and test more code in less time, and software quality assurance SQA test engineers test more software in less time. How can the engineering team test more software and resolve more bugs during software integration, software verification, and system validation?

Wind River Lab Diagnostics is an SQA productivity system that enables development and test engineers to streamline real-time testing and bug resolution during software integration, software verification, and product validation. Lab Diagnostics enables engineers to test the software interface during software integration, run code coverage and performance testing during software verification, and resolve issues during system validation. Rigorous real-time testing of running software on near-complete, live systems will increase the system uptime.

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Power-Efficient Intel SMP Processors: Things You Should Know
Peter Carlston, Platform Architect, Intel Corporation

Intel has released its third-generation of multicore processors, with another generation scheduled to start releasing later in 2008. This session will briefly review the current embedded processor roadmap, with an emphasis on extended life, power-efficient choices for small form factor designs. It will then go over some of the micro-architecture and technology details that software developers can leverage to fine-tune power/performance ratios, optimize I/O across multiple cores, and create cost-efficient, scalable information assurance solutions.

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Maximize Multicore Development with Wind River and Freescale
Kelly Johnson, Freescale

A user considering a multicore device has many questions: Which applications will benefit from a lot of cores? How will operating systems be partitioned? How will coherency be maintained? What sort of cache architecture works best? How are resources shared between the cores? What operating system support is available? Which toolchains are available?

This session will examine Freescale's approach to the multicore challenge, including detailed discussions of the 8641D and 8572. Wind River experts will provide Wind River software training and a discussion of methods for designing with the MPC8641D. If you are a hardware or firmware engineer, an experienced software engineer, or a systems professional, developing real-time device applications and you're interested in learning how to save months of development time on your next application, this presentation will show why Wind River and Freescale have the most up-to-date information to help with development and design.

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COTS Graphics Devices for Avionics: Important Factors Governing the Ease and Cost of Using the Latest COTS Graphics Devices in Aerospace and Defense Applications
Phil Cole, Vice President Sales and Marketing, Seaweed Systems Inc.

Seaweed Systems fully supports the use of COTS graphics devices from NVIDIA and 3Dlabs in the demanding aerospace and defense sector. This session will discuss the COTS graphics device options available to avionics companies that are trying to select the most appropriate COTS graphics device for their business. It will explore several COTS graphics device options from a number of suppliers, including NVIDIA and 3Dlabs from the perspective of the following:

• Industrial package availability
• Performance suitability
• Suitability for use when DO-254 certification is required
• Low-level chip data availability
• Access to device vendor engineering staff
• Availability of DO-178B certifiable drivers
• Long-term parts availability for several years prior to chip or memory obsolescence

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Understanding MILS Development Challenges
Chris Constantinides, Wind River

Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) is a conceptual architecture that creates an environment that makes it difficult to develop and deploy systems. Being aware of these challenges and having a plan to deal with them before architecting the system increases productivity and lowers development cost. This session explores some of the challenges, such as I/O and data synchronization, that MILS presents to designers and developers. We’ll cover some techniques that can be used before designs are started, in order to facilitate development; and some that can assist developers and system integrators during the development and deployment phases.

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Mission Critical: Intel-based Platforms for Advanced Vehicle Systems
GE Fanuc

Advanced Vehicles and Avionics are increasingly turning to Intel architecture for higher levels of performance as well as lower power and improved thermal dissipation. This session will review new small form factor solutions such as 3UVPX, as well as seeing at how traditional VME and cPCI boards are meeting the challenge, including critical factors such as reliability, technology insertion, obsolescence management and lightweight chassis design.

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