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News Release from: Green Hills Software
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 June 2005
RTOS to fly in Airbus military airlifter
Green Hills Software has been selected by EADS Deutschland to supply Integrity-178B, its ARINC 653-1 operating system, and Multi development tools for EADS' Mission Management Computer.
Green Hills Software has been selected by EADS Deutschland to supply Integrity-178B, its ARINC653-1 operating system, and Multi development tools for EADS' Mission Management Computer The Modular Mission Avionics Computer M2AC, now under development by EADS Defense Electronics, is a configurable, modular avionics computer intended for a variety of military airborne platforms including the new Airbus A400M military airlifter
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Green Hills Software is pleased that EADS Deutschland has selected our Integrity-178B operating system to meet the demanding reliability and safety requirements of Europe's new A400M military air transport", said Dan O'Dowd, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Green Hills Software.
"EADS Deutschland is a recognised world leader in the area of state-of-the-art avionics".
"Their avionics experience combined with Integrity-178B, a proven DO-178B Level A compliant real-time operating system (RTOS), will result in an unbeatable modular avionics system".
"Green Hills Software looks forward to a long and successful partnership with EADS Deutschland and the many future customers of their avionics product line".
Green Hills Software's in-house engineering and certification staff is solely responsible for the development and DO-178B compliance of the Integrity-178B RTOS, an ARINC653-1 operating system.
Integrity-178B has been developed from the ground up to meet the requirements of hard real-time flight critical systems that require RTCA/DO-178B Level A certification as well as support for multiple software safety levels.
It is a proven DO-178B Level A compliant RTOS solution that has enabled many aircraft customers to meet their safety critical software requirements on time and in compliance with RTCA/DO-178B Level A.
At its core, the Integrity-178B microkernel design and advanced partition scheduling technology enable it to meet the demanding performance and partitioning requirements of modern safety- and security-critical systems.
The microkernel's "system awareness" allows Integrity-178B to uniquely support advanced access control mechanisms that are applicable to all kernel objects (e.g semaphores, tasks).
Integrity-178B is an uncompromising RTOS architecture that enables system designers to robustly partition critical aircraft functions using different partitioning options: temporal protection per single virtual address space; temporal protection per user defined groups of virtual address spaces; or time partitioning through task CPU utilisation.
As a result, Integrity-178B can support different system architectures including a push architecture (ARINC653 style), a pull architecture (client-server model), event driven, or time sliced, making Integrity-178B an exemplary solution for today's systems that require a partitioned hard real-time operating system.
The Integrity operating system's superior reliability, security features and product maturity have made it the RTOS of choice for a growing number of military and commercial aircraft, including the B-52, B-1B, C-17, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, F/A-22, F-16, Eurofighter Typhoon, Airbus A380 and Sikorsky S-92 commercial helicopter.
Whether applications are developed in Ada, C, C++ or a combination of all three, Integrity provides a reliable, secure platform for hosting airborne software. Request free introductory details about products from Green Hills Software ...
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