Advancing Digital Healthcare
Wind River® Helix™ Virtualization Platform is bringing new intelligence to medical equipment and devices. It provides a single edge compute platform for running multiple applications with mixed levels of criticality, enabling a safe, secure, reliable, and updatable system for innovative, cost-effective healthcare.
Challenges in Medical
For medical device manufacturers, failure is simply not an option—people’s health and lives are at stake. Yet they are challenged to innovate continuously in an increasingly complex and connected environment. To meet this challenge, manufacturers must ensure their devices are safe, secure, and reliable and meet FDA and other regulatory requirements for medical devices, including recent FDA requirements that call for securely, reliably, and cost-effectively building in safety and security update capabilities.
How Helix Platform Can Help
With Helix Platform, medical device architects can use industry-leading virtualization technology to segregate different software applications into independent virtual machines running VxWorks®, Wind River Linux, or other operating systems in separate partitioned processor cores. Manufacturers can then more easily maintain, patch, or replace current software with new safety or security updates, meeting recent FDA requirements for building in update capabilities into medical devices.
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Digital Transformation for Industrial 4.0
Wind River® Helix™ Virtualization Platform brings new intelligence to equipment manufacturing, energy, transportation, and more. Its virtualization technology enables consolidation of applications, data analytics, communication, and operations for industrial systems to deliver Industrial 4.0 capabilities to the edge.
Challenges in Industrial
As manufacturers experience increasing competition, optimizing the efficiency, productivity, and quality levels within their processes or discrete manufacturing facilities is becoming a matter of business survival. Factory infrastructure is aged and inefficient, often using multiple separate systems based on 20-year-old software platforms. How can manufacturers reduce the cost and complexity of system management, maintenance, safety, and security? How can workers monitor and measure active processes, obtain real-time data analytics, and take action immediately?
How Helix Platform Can Help
Utilizing virtualization technology, Helix Platform can consolidate multiple separate control automation systems on a single compute platform. This application consolidation solution allows manufacturers to enable operational efficiencies, increase control management capabilities, analyze data for timely actions, and conduct predictive maintenance. The platform delivers high safety and security levels to equipment for the factory, distribution, energy, transportation, and other segments to safeguard system and operational personnel.
USE CASE: Evolve Control Automation Management Capabilities for Industry 4.0 Benefits
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Consolidate Mission-Critical Capabilities onto an Integrated C4ISR Solution
At the center of an integrated C4ISR system are cutting-edge virtualization technologies, processors, and sensors that seamlessly integrate connectivity, smart situational awareness, and enhanced decision making for the connected warfighter. Wind River® Helix™ Virtualization Platform provides a single compute platform for the needed software interoperability coupled with robust cybersecurity capabilities.
Challenges in C4ISR
Connected operational environments integrate air, space, land, sea, and cyber capabilities, a system-of-systems approach that brings together heterogeneous capabilities from across complex combat environments. But the lack of interoperability of distributed components makes data sharing and communication difficult, if not impossible. And in order to ensure that all end points of the system cannot be breached, the C4ISR platform must also have the ability to detect and combat cyberattacks.
How Helix Platform Can Help
Helix Platform is an adaptive software development environment for aerospace and defense systems that enables multiple heterogeneous applications, from in-vehicle integrated intercom systems to satellite command systems, to run securely side by side on a single compute platform. Applications can be legacy or new capability, based on industry standards such as POSIX® or FACE™ or based on operating systems such as Linux, VxWorks®, containers, and other technologies.
Face conformance
Virtualization Platform has achieved conformance to the latest Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE™) Technical Standard, Edition 3.0. The certification establishes Helix Platform conformance as an Operating System Segment (OSS) that supports the Safety Base and Security Profile.
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Future-Proof IMA Systems
Wind River® Helix™ Virtualization Platform allows avionics system suppliers to consolidate multiple federated systems with both safety-critical and general-purpose applications onto a single safe, secure, and reliable compute platform for integrated modular avionics (IMA)—and reduces the risks and costs of implementing new capabilities in the future.
Challenges in Avionics
The constantly increasing demand for new capabilities pressures avionics system suppliers to adopt increasingly sophisticated technologies. But implementing these technologies is costly when it comes to aircraft design, development, certification, retrofit, and upgrade.
In addition, these new capabilities must adhere to size, weight, and power (SWaP) and performance requirements, and the whole system must meet strict regulatory constraints for safety and security. Meeting these requirements adds extra risk when managing an avionics program.
How Helix Platform Can Help
Helix Platform is an adaptive software development environment for aerospace systems that enables support for multiple applications. It provides a real-time, embedded, Type 1 hypervisor that runs on Arm® or x86 multi-core processors. Applications can be legacy or implement new capability, based on industry standards such as ARINC 653, POSIX®, or FACE™ or based on operating systems such as Linux, VxWorks®, and others.
USE CASE: Evolve IMA Systems to Support Further Development, Certification, Retrofits, and Upgrades
Face conformance
Virtualization Platform has achieved conformance to the latest Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE™) Technical Standard, Edition 3.0. The certification establishes Helix Platform conformance as an Operating System Segment (OSS) that supports the Safety Base and Security Profile.
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Changing the Way Cars Are Built and Driven
The connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles of today require a new approach to designing and developing the compute systems in cars. Wind River® Helix™ Virtualization Platform provides that approach, allowing you to consolidate all types of functions and different levels of safety criticality onto a single edge compute platform, today and into the future.
Challenges in Automotive
Traditional embedded software architectures and operating environments used in automotive need to evolve to meet the increasing needs of next-generation systems. While modern real-time operating systems can handle multi-core, safety-certified applications, in the connected and autonomous vehicle this won’t be enough. Only a heterogeneous operating environment will make it possible to shrink and use different types of hardware, create a flexible software architecture, and leverage different operating systems in a single system design.
How Helix Platform Can Help
Whether you’re most concerned with a real-time operating system (RTOS), Linux, safety, security, latency, determinism, criticality, existing platforms or applications that you’ve invested in, or a combination of these, Helix Platform gives you the flexibility of choice. It supports mixed-criticality OSes, providing you with the ability to run safety-critical and general-purpose applications side by side, while meeting the stringent requirements of ISO 26262 safety standards. And since new partitions can easily be added safely and securely, Helix Platform is built for the future.
USE CASE: ECU Consolidation in Tomorrow’s Connected and Autonomous Car
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It's Transformation Time for Embedded Development
Embedded development is at a tipping point. Complexity, cost, risk, and delay are all on an upward climb. Development teams are under intense pressure to get their projects completed on time—without sacrificing features or quality, and working with budgets that have already been cut. A combination of proven technologies and services can make a big impact on your software development.
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- About the current transformation of embedded software development
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