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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: LynuxWorks
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 September 2007
RTOS supports avionics research
LynxOS offers developers a platform to smoothly migrate laboratory applications to safety-critical airborne applications.
LynuxWorks is working with TTTech Computertechnik to provide an environment in which developers can reduce time to market and risk in migration through the use of open standards-based APIs The products will assist developers in the migration of prototype safety-critical avionics applications to full airborne deployment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Apr 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Working together, LynuxWorks and TTTech are bringing about a quantum leap in aircraft databus design and integration", said Joe Wlad, Director Of Project Management, LynuxWorks.
"TTTech's TTP and our LynxOS RTOS provide avionics developers a prototyping platform on which to build high-speed, deterministic applications for ultimate deployment on commercial and military aircraft platforms that run on our FAA-accepted LynxOS-178 operating system".
"By allowing them to more easily move from the lab environment to deployment, LynuxWorks and TTTech directly help avionics developers get their applications off the ground".
TTTech's low-cost protocol TTP is the first high-speed, time-triggered fieldbus selected for commercial and military aircraft such as the Boeing 787, Airbus A380 and Lockheed Martin F-16.
TTP systems can be built using TTTech's mature design tools deployed in key production programs.
Available embedded COTS software and hardware components comply with DO-254/DO-178B Level A and can be reconfigured for re-use in different distributed real-time systems.
"The combination of our TTP products with the highly reliable LynxOS platform provides avionics developers easy, proven integration for their systems", said Mirko Jakovljevic, Aerospace Marketing Manager at TTTech.
"Both technologies have proven themselves in demanding embedded designs for flight-critical aerospace systems, and our partnership has evolved from our customers, who require a complete solution from the industry's leading vendors".
LynxOS exhibits true linear scalability so that it remains deterministic even as the tasks it performs increase.
Additionally, TTTech's TTP can be used to migrate applications to LynuxWorks' DO-178B Level A compliant RTOS, LynxOS-178.
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