Curtiss-Wright, Seaweed Systems to bring OpenGL graphics to rugged, deployed defense and aerospace platforms

LEESBURG, Va., 16 May 2007.Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX and CompactPCI products, has partnered with Seaweed Systems Inc. to make Seaweed's SeaWind OpenGL embedded graphics solutions available on high-performance embedded graphics platforms for the defense and aerospace market.

SeaWind, Seaweed Systems' implementation of the X11 Window System, provides a functional environment appropriate for real-time or embedded systems. SeaWind includes both X server-side and client-side technology and optimized support for SGI's GLX OpenGL extension for X. SeaWind is an X11R6/Motif 2.0-based implementation, and its X server and client-side products can connect over the backplane, over the network, and locally.

Seaweed Systems also offers the SeaWind/178 product family of DO-178B certifiable OpenGL subset APIs for applications that are safety or mission-critical in nature.