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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Platform Safety Critical 2.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 June 2005
Safety critical development platform
upgraded
A fully integrated commercial off-the-shelf platform enables the development of safety-critical standards-based integrated modular avionics applications faster, better and at reduced cost.
Wind River Systems has revealed its strategy to revolutionise the way aerospace and defence (A and D) manufacturers optimise their device software development and create next-generation applications with more interoperability, safety, security and connectivity At this week's Paris Air Show, Wind River announced the availability of Wind River Platform Safety Critical 2.0, a fully integrated commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform that enables the development of safety critical, standards-based, integrated modular avionics applications faster, better and at dramatically reduced cost
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The cost of innovation in the aerospace and defence community can be exorbitant without an effective development process in place", said Theresa Lanowitz, Research Director, Gartner Research.
"In order to curb costs, aerospace and defence manufacturers must consider the benefits of adopting standards and commercial off-the-shelf solutions".
"Device software solutions optimise the development process and ensure reliability and safety that lower development cost and allow standardisation on choice".
The A and D industry is undergoing an unprecedented transformation.
A and D devices have ever escalating requirements for increased connectivity and reliability, coupled with decreasing size, weight, and power consumption.
Connected, highly safe and secure A and D devices have become a necessity; seamless communication must happen from desktops at headquarters to ships at sea, aircraft, vehicles and soldiers on the front lines.
This transformation requires that all armed forces and the devices they employ be interoperable, reliable, reusable, secure and safe, yet the process for developing these devices must remain cost effective and provide flexibility through openness and support for standards.
Only Wind River provides a platform solution that is responsive and reliable enough to create such devices.
Wind River A and D platforms provide a seamless product portfolio across the entire spectrum of A and D applications.
They are equally suited to address the safety and security needs of mission critical applications and the portability and reusability needs of noncritical applications.
Now, Wind River has announced a major upgrade with Wind River Platform Safety Critical 2.0 for safety critical applications and recently announced updates to Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition for noncritical applications.
Wind River Workbench 2.3 brings an open unifying, framework that provides seamless integration of third party tools designed to meet specific developer needs and support multiple target operating systems including VxWorks, VxWorks ARINC 653, Linux and ThreadX.
An XML-based tool suite to configure all runtime objects provides for the independent development, testing, certification and recertification of individual applications in an integrated modular avionics (IMA) system, delivering a plug-and-play approach that supports the roles of platform provider, system integrator, and applications developer, and dramatically reduces initial development and certification time and cost and later cost of change.
Through strong support of open standards such as ARINC 653 in the Wind River runtime platform, customers can standardise on choice - and therefore reduce associated costs, increase time to market for avionics devices and ultimately focus their efforts on innovation versus integration.
Wind River has also announced an extended roadmap for Wind River Platform Safety Critical that provides Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS), meaning the environment is capable of housing and processing data at varying security levels.
The MILS environment also provides for secure partitioning, which gives customers the flexibility to add middleware or applications at a later date, with minimum impact analysis and re-certification efforts.
By standardising on Wind River Platforms, customers gain the flexibility of developing on a single development suite across projects - ranging from noncritical projects without safety or security certification requirements to the highest levels of safety and security certification, such as DO-178B Level A and Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 6+ (high robustness) or 7.
The Wind River Platform Safety Critical and the Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition are further complemented by the Wind River Aerospace and Defence Device Services Practice, which provides A and D device manufacturers expert outsourcing and consulting services, specifically designed to speed new product introduction while minimising development cost.
"The aerospace and defence market is under a massive transformation".
"Manufacturers are suddenly realising they need to take a radically different approach to how they develop intelligent devices that don't break the bank", said Rob Hoffman, Programme Director, Aerospace and Defence Field Operations, Wind River.
"At Wind River, we strive to make the development process easier and less costly - greater innovation does not necessarily have to lead to greater development costs".
"With Wind River Platform Safety Critical 2.0, manufacturers get the foremost commercial off-the-shelf solution that addresses their safety, security, interoperability and connectivity needs".
The Wind River Platform Safety Critical 2.0 is available in Early Access for select customers today and will be generally available later this year.
The Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition, is available today in Early Access for select customers will be generally available in June 2005.
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