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News Release from: Mistral Solutions | Subject: Mistral ARINC 653
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 October 2007
Software adopted by Indian aerospace
industry
ARINC 653 is a standard for partitioning of computer resources in the time and space domains.
Mistral Solutions has enabled the implementation of the first ARINC 653 RTOS for civilian aircraft in India An Indian aerospace lab is the first to acquire Wind River's Platform for the ARINC 653 from Mistral
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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New developments in hardware in the Indian aviation industry created the need for multiple applications to share a single processor and memory.
This meant that the execution time and memory space of each application needed to be protected from other applications in the system in order to guarantee that one cannot bring down another in the event of an application failure.
ARINC 653 is a standard for partitioning of computer resources in the time and space domains.
The standard also specifies APIs for abstraction of the application from the underlying hardware and software and defines a standard interface between avionics application software and real-time operating system (RTOS).
Wind River's platform for safety critical ARINC 653 offers enhanced safety and architecture features that enable aerospace and defence (AandD) device manufacturers to develop and maintain safety-critical, standards-based, integrated, modular applications faster and more reliably.
The platform also offers DO-178B certification evidence.
The DO-178B standard defines the planning, development and test procedures for software deployed in aircrafts.
The Wind River Platform for Safety Critical ARINC 653 is used to power Boeing's 7E7 Dreamliner Common Core System, the backbone of the aeroplane's computers, networks and interfacing electronics.
The 7E7 Common Core System is comprised of device software with 80 to 100 applications running simultaneously.
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