Wind River Platform For Safety Critical ARINC 653
Customer Success
Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 delivers the stringent foundation aerospace and defense companies need to address the safety and security needs of mission-critical applications, as well as the portability and reusability requirements of noncritical applications. The platform offers complete ARINC 653-1 compliance and DO-178B certification evidence, and is backed by Wind River's 20+ years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.
Key features and functionality include:
- ARINC 653 API Conformance: Platform for Safety Critical offers complete ARINC 653-1 conformance and supports C and C++. Ada is supported through partners. Applications can be written to VxWorks, ARINC, or POSIX APIs. The partition-level operating system (POS) varies for different certification levels and adaptation of legacy operating systems, enabling the OS to run existing code with little change.
- Wind River Workbench: An integrated development suite based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench provides deep capabilities that support the entire development lifecycle, from hardware bring-up to platform and application development, and enables standardization on one common development suite across the enterprise. Workbench is extensible and scalable, allowing aerospace and defense suppliers to meet specific project needs, and it can seamlessly integrate hundreds of third-party plug-ins.
- XML Configuration Tool Suite: Platform for Safety Critical includes an XML-based utility to configure all ARINC 653 run-time objects (partitions, ports, health monitoring, etc.). The XML-to-binary compiler is qualified as a development tool under DO-178B guidelines. This qualified XML compiler ensures tabular partition configuration data is generated in binary format correctly, and provides for independent development, testing, certification, and recertification of individual applications in an Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) system. The utility delivers a fully separated, plug-and-play approach to software and systems changes that supports the independent supplier roles of platform provider, system integrator, and applications developer, as required by the DO-297 IMA Development Guidance and Certification Issues document, reducing initial development and certification time and cost, as well as change and maintenance costs later in the development process.
- DO-178B Level A Certification Evidence: Wind River A&D product offerings include all required documentation and artifacts to support DO-178B Level A, B, C, and D certifications. Certification evidence is delivered as a complete package on DVD in an advanced hyperlinked format for easy navigation and traceability, easing the time and expense required by certification authorities. This packaging of certification artifacts can also be used as a basis for IEC 61508 and FDA 510 (k) device certifications, serving all SIL and medical device class levels.
- Extensive Partner Technologies: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the DSO industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as COTS boards, specialized compilers, certification services, and platform simulation applications.
- Education Credits: Platform for Safety Critical includes credits that can be used to fund education courses for project personnel, ensuring that product development gets off to a quick start and stays on schedule.
Customer Success
 EADS/CASA selected Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 for its Tail BOOM project. |
 Smiths Aerospace relied on Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 to help build out its Boeing 787 Dreamliner common core system. |
Wind River Aerospace & Defense Services Practice
Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 is complemented by the Wind River Aerospace & Defense Services Practice, which provides A&D device manufacturers with expert outsourced engineering services specifically designed to speed new products to market while minimizing development costs. Services include BSP package adaptation, software system and middleware integration, legacy application and infrastructure migration, platform extensions, and process compliance.
Architecture and Host Support
| Target Processor Architecture | Host Operating Systems |
| IBM 750GX PowerPC 7xx, 74xx COTS Boards MVME5110 wrSbc7447, wrSbc7457 wrSbc750GX |
Windows Solaris |
Partner Ecosystem
Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem assures tight integration between our core technologies and those of the premier hardware and software companies we've chosen to build out our solutions. Our partners help to extend the capabilities of Wind River's development and run-time platforms by offering out-of-the-box integration and support for key technologies in the fast-moving aerospace & defense market. Our customer support team is trained to troubleshoot partner technologies in use with Wind River products, making ours the most comprehensive and best supported partner ecosystem in the DSO industry.
Our aerospace & defense hardware Platform Partners include:
| Aitech CES Curtiss-Wright Mercury Computing |
Motorola ECC Radstone Technology Thales Computer |
Our aerospace & defense software Platform Partners include:
| Technology | Partner |
| Military data interfaces | Acromag, AIM GmbH, GE Fanuc |
| UML design tools | iLogix |
| Software test solutions | IPL |
| Model-driven development | Telelogic |
| Real-time scheduling solutions | TriPacific |
| System simulation | Virtutech |
| Integrated Ada language development | AdaCore |
| Real-time Java | Aicas |
| OpenGL graphics solution | ALT Software |
| SCA core framework | CRC |
| CORBA solution | OIS |
| Network data distribution services | RTI |
| OpenGL graphics solution | Seaweed |
| CIFS middleware | Visuality |
| Security certification experts (Common Criteria / ISO 15408) | Cygnacom |
| Safety certification experts (DO-178B) | Verocel |
Affiliations
At Wind River, we applaud the move toward open industry standards. Because we believe the world is changing too fast to lock our customers into proprietary technologies, we've built our DSO solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied.
Wind River does not just embrace open standards, we're taking the lead in establishing them. Driving the Device Software Development Platform project at the Eclipse Foundation; providing TIPC support for messaging on the backplane between different operating systems; leading the way on Carrier Grade Linux with OSDL; and participating in AutoSAR - these are just a few examples of our commitment to evolving standards.
APEX Working Group of the AEEC
The Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) is an international body of airline representatives that leads the development of technical standards for airborne electronic equipment used in commercial, military, and business aviation. The organization's APEX Working Group is focused on updating ARINC Specification 653, Application Software Standard Interface, for traditional avionics and integrated modular avionics.
Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open-source paradigm with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform enables tool developers to have ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.
Object Management Group
The Object Management Group is a nonprofit, open membership consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications.
Open Source Developers Lab
Open Source Developers Lab (OSDL) - home to Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of the-art computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan for developers around the world. OSDL's founding members include IBM, HP, CA, Intel, and NEC.
UVS International
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (UVS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of unmanned vehicle systems. UVS maintains a public site, UCARE, that offers an extensive collection of regulations and official documents, position and opinion papers, and international conference presentations pertaining to UAV-related airworthiness, certification, and air traffic management.
