Rely on a Proven, Secure, Safe, Reliable, and Certifiable RTOS Medical device manufacturers are under pressure to accelerate time-tomarket for their next-generation devices as they pursue global outreach efforts, particularly in China, Japan, and Europe. This challenge includes finding ways to minimize the time and cost to certify systems and satisfy regulatory safety and security requirements. Regulatory agencies are requiring higher levels of security and faster update processes to quickly resolve safety and security issues to ensure continuing patient safety. On the application side, emerging medical devices require real-time and deterministic performance—for example, a surgical robot must restrict where cuts are made based on pre-operation programming by the surgeon. The trend for such medical applications is for next-generation device designs to be more software focused than hardware focused, which requires providing software developers with modern software programming methods and tools. There is also fierce competition for talented software developers who want to apply the latest techniques they learned in school and not be forced to use outdated software environments. To help device manufacturers address these challenges, Wind River® invests heavily in its VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), adding new features and maintaining its very high level of security, safety, and reliability. VxWorks delivers hard real-time performance, determinism, and low latency, along with the scalability required for medical applications. It is the world’s most widely used commercial RTOS, with more than 30 years in the field and billions of deployments.

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Regulatory approval of VxWorks Cert Edition for IEC 62304 strengthens opportunities for innovation and streamlines design cycles for Medical Applications. KEEPING PACE WITH THE CHALLENGES IN MEDICAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Developing effective, compliant software for medical devices requires a balanced blend of regulatory awareness, proven components, and efficiency of design practices. Wind River® addressed each of these factors in the latest release of VxWorks® Cert Edition. Engineered with medical-grade requirements in mind, VxWorks Cert Edition meets regulatory approval for the IEC 62304 standard, combining strong, built-in security; well-defined software lifecycle processes; and careful attention to the constraints that govern the classification and use of medical devices. Development teams are keenly aware of the trade-offs involved when dealing with time, cost, and regulatory mandates that affect projects. Building medical devices based on a real-time operating system (RTOS) built by Wind River, a company with long-standing expertise in secure embedded solutions, confers numerous benefits. These benefits have been demonstrated across a diverse portfolio of projects completed to rigorous standards for aerospace, defense, and the medical sector. Having a solid RTOS at the heart of a product’s hardware/software stack removes much of the uncertainty from the design and can streamline updates, improving on prior manual processes. Other benefits include dynamic network device management and enterprise- caliber security provisions. A widespread, supportive ecosystem and industry-wide familiarity with the tools and components of the VxWorks Cert Edition platform gives assurance to device manufacturers that want proven, field-tested technologies.

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