Wind River Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B
Customer Success
Wind River Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B delivers the stringent foundation aerospace and defense (A&D) companies need to address the safety aspects of mission-critical applications. Offering complete DO-178B certification evidence, the platform is based on the industry-leading VxWorks operating system and 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:
- VxWorks API Conformance: Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B offers a certifiable subset of the VxWorks API and supports C and C++. Ada is supported through partners. This subset was selected to be deterministic and testable, then built into a certifiable kernel with optional certification material available to DO-178B Level A. Debug information and nonessential features are not included in this certifiable kernel, so a full-featured VxWorks kernel is also packaged with the product for development purposes.
- DO-178B Level A Certification Evidence: The platform includes all required documentation to support DO-178B Level A, B, C, and D certification of the operating system. The certification evidence is delivered as a complete package on a CD in an advanced, hyperlinked format for easy navigation and traceability – an advantage over systems that require expensive, time-consuming certification services.
- Wind River Tornado IDE: Based on Tornado II, this development environment enables users to select from two kernels: VxWorks or the certifiable VxWorks/Cert subset. The Tornado Project Tool provides configuration checks when you choose a subset build definition that will compare your project to the subset definition. Additional benefits include outstanding embedded development and productivity tools, as well as access to third-party tools from the DSO industry’s largest partner program.
- 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.
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Wind River Aerospace & Defense Services Practice
Wind River Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B 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 PowerPC 82xx COTS Boards Motorola ECC MVME5110 Wind River SBC7447 Wind River SBC7457 Wind River SBC750GX Wind River PPMC8245 |
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 and 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:
| Curtiss-Wright Motorola ECC |
Radstone Technology Thales Computer |
Our aerospace and defense software Platform Partners include:
| Technology | Partner |
| Integrated Ada language development | AdaCore |
| Certifiable ARINC 664 Stack | EmbVUE |
| Qualified graphics development tool | Engenuity |
| Certifiable OpenGL graphics solution | Seaweed Systems |
| Safety gertification experts | 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.
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.
