Wind River, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, announced that Leonardo, one of the world’s leading players in the aerospace, defense, and security sector, has selected VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) to deliver software-defined advancements for its state-of-the-art safety-related radio frequency (RF) system on multicore processor architectures.
To address the challenge of using different multi-core processor architectures for individual system functions within the Leonardo RF system, the company is using VxWorks to provide a common application runtime environment across processor architectures. Leonardo is developing applications to run on VxWorks and will undergo DO-178C DAL C certification.
“As multi-core processors drive an increasingly software-defined world, new opportunities are emerging to advance aerospace and defense systems,” said Jay Bellissimo, president of Wind River. “VxWorks delivers unrivaled deterministic high performance, setting the standard for a scalable, safe, secure, and reliable operating environment for mission-critical computing. Together with Leonardo, we can help companies navigate a shifting technology landscape extending the performance and lifespan of their systems while reducing program and certification risk.”
VxWorks provides flexible single-core and multi-core support on different architectures, enabling individual systems to be configured depending on application performance requirements and safety certification requirements. Proven in the most challenging safety-critical applications, Wind River technology makes it easier and more cost-effective for organizations to meet the stringent safety certification requirements of EN 50128, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, and DO-178C / ED-12C.
The first and only commercial RTOS to support Open Container Initiative (OCI) compliant containers, VxWorks OCI container implementation uses a lightweight minimal footprint combined with VxWorks Real-Time Processes (RTP). This enables the development of containerized applications on VxWorks and can enable Leonardo to deploy new software-defined capabilities.
