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Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Sysgo
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 10 July 2006
RTOS to integrate unmanned aerial
vehicle systems
Sysgo is working on a new system architecture for an open and modular platform for avionics FMS/MMS (flight and mission management systems) for future unmanned aerial vehicles.
Sysgo is working on a new system architecture for an open and modular platform for avionics FMS/MMS (flight and mission management systems) for future unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Sysgo's PikeOS real-time operating system will be used to integrate various existing avionic systems - with varying levels of criticality - on a single COTS hardware platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The project is being led by the New Avionics Structures department of EADS Military Air Systems, and is financed by the German Ministry of Defence's research and procurement agency BWB, supporting research projects in the field of safety critical systems.
The major objective of this project is to reduce the overall costs for avionic systems, by integrating several existing systems on just one platform.
Additionally, the new platform architecture opens the door to use Linux based open source components for noncritical applications, which is another important step towards significant cost savings.
Using the partitioning concept of PikeOS, safety-critical real-time applications can coexist with Linux, guaranteeing that the Linux applications are not able to compromise the execution of the critical tasks.
The critical legacy applications are based on Ada, and these will run on top of PikeOS using ObjectAda, the Ada runtime environment from Aonix, which is already available for PikeOS.
Other legacy components, which were previously based on other COTS operating systems, will be migrated to a PikeOS API, which emulates the system calls of the legacy RTOS.
The reference implementation is based on a 3U cPCI board powered by an IBM 750FX PowerPC.
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