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News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: Integrity-178BT
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 December 2002
RTOS flies in C-17 transport plane
Green Hills Software's Integrity-178B real-time operating system (RTOS) has been selected for use in the Boeing USAF C-17 Globemaster III jet transport plane.
Green Hills Software's Integrity-178B real-time operating system (RTOS) has been selected for use in the Boeing USAF C-17 Globemaster III jet transport plane Integrity-178B, along with Green Hills Software's GMART (Green Hills Minimal Ada Run-Time) and GSTART (Green Hills Safe-Tasking Ada Run-Time System), will host the C-17's navigation, mission planning, and display functions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This combination makes the C-17 ideal for long missions in rugged terrain, particularly when the take off and landing airfields are small or not well developed.
"Boeing is using Green Hills Software's Integrity and AdaMulti in the C-17's Avionics System", said Hafez Lorseyedi, Director of C-17 Systems and Software.
"Green Hills has been very responsive to our needs, and has provided us with great support on this critical program.
"Green Hills Software has a long history working with Boeing on projects such as the C-17", said John Carbone, Vice President of Marketing for Green Hills Software.
"Integrity-178B and AdaMulti are fast becoming the RTOS and IDE of choice for developing and deploying DO-178B-compliant software for safety-critical applications".
Integrity-178B is an ARINC-653 compliant, hard real-time RTOS optimised for safety-critical and mission-critical applications that require the utmost security and fast, predictable response.
Using hardware memory protection and an advanced two-level partition scheduler, Integrity-178B provides complete time, space, and resource partitioning between applications operating on the same hardware platform.
Integrity-178B also provides guaranteed resource availability in both the time and space domains.
This combination facilitates "robust partitioning" (as defined in ARINC 653), enabling applications that have been assigned different DO-178B safety levels to run concurrently on the same processor.
Integrity-178B includes an RTOS simulator (ISIM) that enables programmers to develop and test their code on a PC or workstation without the need for target hardware.
Integrity-178B also features a real-time event analyser (EventAnalyzer) that enables viewing of system and user events in a graphical display.
Integrity-178B is tightly integrated with Green Hills Software's AdaMulti IDE.
Together with Green Hills Software's family of optimising Ada 95, C, and C++ compilers, AdaMulti automates all aspects of embedded software development, including editing, source-level debugging, program building, run-time error checking, version control, and code/performance optimisation.
AdaMulti also features an advanced code coverage tool (G-Cover) that automates structural coverage analysis for application software, including the analysis of DO-178B Table A-7, Objectives 5, 6, and 7 (statement, decision, and MCDC coverage achievement). Request a free brochure from Green Hills Software ...
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