Embedded computing companies offer safety-critical avionics that meet MOSA and FACE open-systems standards
PHOENIX – DDC-I in Phoenix is working together with North Atlantic Industries (NAI) in Bohemia, N.Y., and Real-Time Innovations (RTI) in Sunnyvale, Calif., to offer a MOSA-aligned SWaP-optimized design system for avionics that seek to adhere to the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) open-systems standards.
The multicore design and development tools combine NAI's PowerPC and ARM-based Configurable Open Systems Architecture (COSA) single-board computers and multifunction I/O with DDC-I's Deos' FACE Technical Standard, Edition 3.1-aligned Operating System Segment (OSS) software and RTI's Connext software connectivity framework.
DDC-I, NAI, and RTI share an approach to building safety-critical avionics that align to the Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) open-systems design guidelines, and that emphasizes modular, scalable, portable DO-178C DAL A certification evidence.
Deos uses a DAL A linking loader that enables OS binary components and their artifacts to travel separately.
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NAI's COSA uses modular, portable components that can be added, removed, and reapplied to other system configurations with maximum reuse of DAL-A artifacts.
RTI Connext TSS employs an open modular framework with DAL A evidence that provides real-time messaging and information sharing for seamless, safety-critical communications, data exchange and interoperability between FACE applications and Deos.
Deos is a safety-critical embedded software real-time operating system (RTOS) that employs cache partitioning, memory pools, and safe scheduling to deliver high CPU utilization on multi-core processors.
SafeMC technology extends Deos' advanced capabilities to multiple cores, enabling developers of safety-critical systems to achieve multi-core performance without compromising safety critical task response and guaranteed execution time.
Connext TSS is a modular certified conformant FACE Transport Services Segment (TSS) software connectivity framework designed to meet the requirements of critical airborne systems requiring low latency, high reliability, scalability, security and commercial DO-178C DAL A certification evidence.
NAI's 68ARM2 VPX single-board computers and NIU3E multifunction I/O processing system feature dual Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 MPCore processors.
For more information contact DDC-I online at www.ddci.com, North Atlantic Industries at www.naii.com, or Real Time Innovations at www.rti.com.
