Wind River Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B

Key features and functionality include the following:

• VxWorks API conformance: Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B offers a certifiable subset of the VxWorks API and supports C and Ada (from our partner AdaCore) software development. The platform comes with the complete VxWorks 5.4 real-time operating system, including its extensive debug capabilities. The tools allow the developer to build safety-critical applications that run on the VxWorks Cert subset. This subset was selected to be deterministic and testable under guidelines outlined in RTCA DO-178B to assurance Level A.
• DO-178B Level A certification evidence: Once development is complete, Wind River's certification evidence CD can be used to build and test the final software system for certification. The CD contains all required source, binary, and documentation to support DO-178B Level A, B, C, or D certification of the operating system. The certification evidence is delivered as a complete package on a CD in an advanced, hyperlinked format for easy navigation and traceability, an advantage over systems that require expensive, time-consuming certification services.
• Wind River Tornado development suite: The Tornado project tool provides configuration checks when you choose a subset build definition that will compare your project to the subset definition. Additional benefits include outstanding embedded development and productivity tools, as well as access to third-party tools from the Device Software Optimization (DSO) industry's largest partner program.
• Extensive partner ecosystem: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the DSO industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as COTS boards, system modeling tools, control design tools, test tools, certification services, and platform simulation applications.

Customer Success

Wind River Aerospace & Defense Services Practice

Wind River Platform for Safety Critical DO-178B is complemented by Wind River Professional Services, which provides A&D device manufacturers with expert outsourced engineering services specifically designed to speed new products to market while minimizing development costs. Services include BSP package adaptation, software system and middleware integration, legacy application and infrastructure migration, platform extensions, and process compliance.

Architecture and Host Support

Wind River Aerospace & Defense Partners

Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem ensures tight integration between our core technologies and those of the premier hardware and software companies we've chosen to build out our solutions. Our partners help to extend the capabilities of Wind River's development and run-time platforms by offering out-of-the-box integration and support for key technologies in the aerospace and defense market. Our customer support team is trained to troubleshoot partner technologies in use with Wind River products, making ours the most comprehensive and best supported partner ecosystem in the Device Software Optimization (DSO) industry.

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 Device Software Optimization (DSO) solution on open standards, expertly integrated and intelligently applied.

Wind River does not just embrace open standards; we're taking the lead in establishing them. Driving the Device Software Development Platform project at the Eclipse Foundation; providing TIPC support for messaging on the backplane between different operating systems; leading the way on Carrier Grade Linux with Open Source Development Labs (OSDL); and participating in AUTOSAR: These are just a few examples of our commitment to evolving standards.

APEX Working Group of the AEEC
The Airlines Electronic Engineering Committee (AEEC) is an international body of airline representatives that leads the development of technical standards for airborne electronic equipment used in commercial, military, and business aviation. The organization's APEX Working Group is focused on updating ARINC Specification 653, Application Software Standard Interface, for traditional avionics and integrated modular avionics.

Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open source paradigm with a common public license that provides royalty-free source code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform enables tool developers to have ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology.

Object Management Group
The Object Management Group is a nonprofit, open membership consortium that produces and maintains computer industry specifications for interoperable enterprise applications.

Open Source Developers Lab
OSDL, home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Founded in 2000 and supported by a global consortium of IT industry leaders, OSDL is a nonprofit organization that provides state-of the-art computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan for developers around the world. OSDL's founding members include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and NEC.

RTCA Inc.
RTCA Inc. is a private, nonprofit corporation that develops consensus-based recommendations regarding communications, navigation, surveillance, and air traffic management (CNS/ATM) system issues. RTCA functions as a Federal Advisory Committee. Its recommendations are used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the basis for policy, program, and regulatory decisions, and by the private sector as the basis for development, investment, and other business decisions.

The Open Group
The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability. The Real-Time and Embedded Systems Forum defines, coordinates, integrates, and prioritizes real-time and embedded systems standards utilizing various existing architectural approaches. The forum also defines test suites and certification programs for products adhering to these standards to enable the proliferation of conformant real-time and embedded systems, including POSIX profiles, Linux for embedded systems, and safety and mission-critical real-time Java.

UVS International
Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (UVS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion of unmanned vehicle systems. UVS maintains a public site, UCARE, that offers an extensive collection of regulations and official documents, position and opinion papers, and international conference presentations pertaining to UAV-related airworthiness, certification, and air traffic management.