Embedded Platforms

The industry's most advanced and proven platforms powering mission-critical
embedded systems

Combining scalable, reliable and innovative solutions with commercial assurance, to address mixed criticality use cases for highly regulated environments, where security and safety are paramount.

Wind River delivers deterministic RTOS, embedded Linux, and hypervisor platforms with 40+ years of successful embedded deployments.

Wind River Embedded Platforms combine real-time performance, comprehensive safety certification, and modern DevSecOps integration. Our platforms power systems across aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial, and medical markets, providing architectural choice without compromising on reliability, security, or extended lifecycle support and maintenance.

VxWorks

VxWorks is the industry's leading RTOS, ranked #1 by VDC Research. It delivers deterministic performance with 600+ completed safety projects, and is certifiable to DO-178C/EUROCAE ED-12C, IEC 61508, IEC 62304, and ISO 26262. It is the first RTOS with OCI containers, and is the leading RTOS for Time Sensitive Networking.

Keeping planes in the air, preserving life, assisting drivers, controlling spaceflight –for when it simply cannot fail, the world’s leading organizations turn to VxWorks. Trusted by NASA for Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, deployed at Lockheed Martin and Kuka Robotics. VxWorks powers billions of devices with microsecond response times and 15-year lifecycle support.

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Wind River Linux

Wind River Linux is the market leading solution tailored for embedded deployments. As a Yocto Project founder and top contributor, Wind River delivers commercial-grade Linux with long-term support, proactive CVE remediation, and regulatory compliance artifacts.

Build secure Linux-powered embedded devices without the risk of using roll-your-own Linux. Wind River handles security patches, open source compliance and export artifacts, with a streamlined business model and 10+ years of support and maintenance and an award winning professional services teams to help accelerate embedded systems products.

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Helix Virtualization Platform

Helix Virtualization Platform is a true Type 1 hypervisor that enables multiple applications and their operating systems to run on a single multi-core device via Virtual Machines (VMs), safely isolated from each other, maintaining the highest performance and the industry's smallest hypervisor footprint.

Consolidating safety-critical and non-safety-critical systems (mixed criticality), re-using existing, proven software on a new platform, and de-coupling hardware and software – leading aerospace and defense and other suppliers use Helix Platform to achieve savings on space, weight, power, and cost.

Helix Platform supports the highest levels of certification including DO-178C / EUROCAE ED-12C DAL-A, IEC 61508 SIL-3, and ISO 26262 ASIL-D.

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