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News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: Integrity-178B
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 February 2003
Safety-critical RTOS meets FAA
requirements
Green Hills Software has received FAA acceptance of a DO-178B Level A certification package for its Integrity-178B real-time operating system.
Green Hills Software has received FAA acceptance of a DO-178B, Level A, certification package for its Integrity-178B real-time operating system The Integrity certification package was delivered to Rockwell Collins for use in Technical Standards Order (TSO) certification for a new avionics system aboard the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 29 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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RTOS flies in new Sikorsky S-92 helicopter
Rockwell Collins has integrated Green Hills Software's Integrity-178B real-time operating system (RTOS) into the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter's new highly integrated avionics package.
RTOS aids aviation safety certification
Green Hills Software's Integrity-178B RTOS has been selected by Ryan International Corp for avionics product development.
FAA audit of the certification package was completed at Green Hills Software's offices in November 2002.
The audit process verified compliance with DO-178B, Level A requirements, a required step for certification of the S-92 aircraft.
The S-92 is Sikorsky's newest medium-lift commercial helicopter.
Featuring a passenger capacity of 19-22, the versatile new helicopter will serve a variety of commercial and international utility needs, including passenger, cargo, aeromedical, search and rescue and resource development support.
Production is already underway with final assembly commencing in March 2003.
Integrity-178B is the core component of Green Hills' solution for safety-critical architectures.
By providing protection in both the time and space domains, Integrity-178B allows applications that have been assigned different DO-178B safety levels to run concurrently on the same processor (ie supports robust partitioning as defined in ARINC 653).
Integrity-178B is derived from Green Hills Software's standard Integrity RTOS product.
Integrity, first released by Green Hills in 1997, is a commercial real time operating system developed for a broad class of mission critical embedded systems.
Allowing multiple software applications to share a common hardware platform, Integrity-178B was designed so that any error in one application cannot prevent another application from continuing to operate.
As such, the Integrity-178B RTOS provides complete time, space, and resource partitioning between applications operating on the same hardware platform.
It provides security and determinism through memory protection and real-time scheduling protection. Request a free brochure from Green Hills Software ...
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