Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform Product OverviewOverview
Wind River® VxWorks® 653 Platform delivers the stringent integrated modular avionics (IMA) foundation aerospace and defense companies need to address the safety and security requirements of mission critical applications, as well as the portability and reusability requirements of noncritical applications. The platform delivers complete ARINC 653 Part 1, Supplement 2 conformance and expands the ARINC 653 XML configuration capabilities to enable a true multi-vendor platform that supports fully independent RTCA DO-297/EUROCAE ED-124 IMA supplier sourcing.
VxWorks 653 Platform includes industry-leading commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) RTCA DO-178B/C and EUROCAE ED-12B/C Level A certification evidence containing more than 65,000 files, delivered in a fully hyperlinked DVD for ease of review.
Backed by 30 years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team, Wind River is ready to support your next IMA project.
Features
Key features and functionality include the following:
- Proven time- and space-partitioned VxWorks 653 RTOS supporting mixed levels of safety
- Wind River Workbench development suite of debugging and performance monitoring tools
- XML configuration tool suite, enabling efficient configuration of IMA platforms and reducing cost of change for certified software
- Independent build, link, and load (IBLL) support for adding or updating target applications on the fly while using multiple, geographically distributed development teams
- RTCA DO-178B/C Levels A-D certification evidence supporting robust partitioning
- Wind River Certified Network Stack for VxWorks 653 and DO-178B/C file system, offering enhanced communication and storage support while supporting DO-178 Level A certification
- Wide language support for C, C++, Ada, and Java
- Extensive partner ecosystem
Customer Success
VxWorks 653 is used in more than 290 projects by over 163 customers on over 56 aircraft, as well as in industrial systems with dozens of safety critical approvals from the FAA, EASA, TÜV, and many other respected government and independent organizations. Our customers rely on VxWorks 653 to separate applications at different levels of safety.
Wind River Professional Services
Aerospace & Defense Practice
Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform is complemented by Wind River Professional Services, which provides A&D device manufacturers with outsourced expert engineering services specifically designed to speed new products to market while minimizing development costs. Services include board support package (BSP) adaptation, software system and middleware integration, legacy application and infrastructure migration, platform extensions, and process compliance.
Architecture and Host Support
- IBM PowerPC 750GX
- PowerPC 7xx
- PowerPC 74xx
- PowerPC 82xx
- PowerPC 83xx
- PowerPC 85xx
- Intel Celeron
- Intel Core 2
- PowerPC 86xx
- QorIQ P4080 (both uniprocessor and uAMP)
COTS Boards
- Aitech S950 (PPC 750fx), SBS RL4 (PPC 750/755)
- CES RIO3 806x (PPC 750)
- Curtiss-Wright Rhino 10 (PPC 7410)
- Curtiss-Wright Rhino DX (PPC 7455)
- Curtiss-Wright SVME-181 (PPC 7410)
- Curtiss-Wright VPX6-185 (MPC8641D)
- Freescale HCP-NET 8641D (ArgoNavis) (single core mode only)
- GE Intelligent Platforms V7768 (Intel Core 2 and Celeron)
- Lockheed Martin SPC103C (PPC 7455/7457)
- Motorola MVME5100 (PPC 750/74xx)
- Motorola MVME5500 (PPC 7455)
- Motorola MVME2400 (PPC 750)
- Radstone IMP1A-xC1345 (PPC 7410)
- Radstone PPC7A-xC1345 (PPC 7410)
- SBC PowerQUICC II for 8260 (PPC 8260)
- SBC PowerQUICC II for MPC8270 (PPC 8270)
- SBC750GX (PPC 750gx)
- SBC7447 (PPC 7447)
- SBC7457 (PPC 7457)
- SBC8349E (PPC 8349E)
- SBC8560 (PPC 8560)
- SBC8641d (PPC 8641D)
- Wind River PPMC7xx (PPC 750/755)
- Wind River PPMC74xx (PPC 74xx)
- Wind River PPMC8245 (PPC 8245)
- Wind River SBCP4080
- Wind River SBC8548
Affiliations
Wind River applauds 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 solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied. And Wind River doesn’t just embrace open standards; we're taking the lead in establishing them. We are affiliated with the following standards and organizations:
- ARINC 653
- Eclipse
- OMG
- OSDL
- RTCA
- Open Group
- FACE™
- UVS International
- USCWG
