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VxWorks: A Long Love Story with Multi-core

While it may seem mundane today to talk about multi-core, it used to be a big deal. Back in the day, all CPUs came with a single core (Zylog Z80, Motorola 68K, PowerPC 8xx, 386...

7 years 4 months ago

Wind River Helps Collins Aerospace Future-proof Avionics Systems

Wind River Helps Collins Aerospace Future-proof Avionics Systems

Future airspace will be filled with drones, commercial aircraft, helicopters, and more. Several prototypes are currently targeting urban air mobility solutions such as air taxis...

7 years 6 months ago

RTOS Application Development Redefined: Desktop-like Ease-of-Use in Embedded with LLVM and Boost

Nearly four decades ago VxWorks revolutionized the RTOS market by enabling a hardware board to connect to a Unix workstation dramatically changing the edit/compile/debug paradigm...

7 years 7 months ago

SSS’19 Update: AI/ML, autonomy and multi-core safety certification

SSS’19 Update: AI/ML, autonomy and multi-core safety certification

Wind River recently participated in the Safety-critical Systems Symposium (SSS’19) held in Bristol, UK. This year’s conference achieved a record-level number of delegates...

7 years 7 months ago

The Future of AI/ML in Avionics

Wind River recently published a short video on our collaboration with Collins Aerospace, in which Jim Douglas ( CEO and President, Wind River) and Tim McCormick ( Director...

7 years 8 months ago

My OPAF Experience: Not All Standards are Created Equally

My OPAF Experience: Not All Standards are Created Equally

For the past nine months I’ve been working as a member of an experienced, diverse team creating a new technical standard for use within industrial process automation. The activity...

7 years 10 months ago

Wind River VxWorks Lands on Mars (Again) with NASA's Insight Spacecraft

Wind River VxWorks Lands on Mars (Again) with NASA's Insight Spacecraft

Wind River is proud to announce that today NASA’s InSight Mars Lander, with the help of its VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS), reached a historical milestone in its journey...

7 years 10 months ago

Diving Deeper into Multi-core Certification Activities

Diving Deeper into Multi-core Certification Activities

In the recent Wind River and Rockwell Collins joint webinar “ Plan with Confidence: Route to a Successful DO-178C Multi-Core Certification ”, we discussed a number of topics...

7 years 11 months ago

Meeting FDA Regulations to Update Medical Devices for Safety and Security

Meeting FDA Regulations to Update Medical Devices for Safety and Security

Protecting patients and promoting public health is a key directive for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). This directive includes oversight on the safe and secure use of...

8 years 1 month ago

Reliable, Safe and Secure? Ada and VxWorks Can Help!

Reliable, Safe and Secure? Ada and VxWorks Can Help!

Writing reliable, safe and secure software is tough. Doing it for for hard real-time systems with demanding certification requirements — such as DO-178B or DO-178C for avionics —...

8 years 2 months ago