Wind River VxWorks DO-178B Platform delivers the stringent foundation aerospace and defense (A&D) companies need to address the safety aspects of critical applications. Offering complete DO-178B certification evidence, the platform is based on Wind River's industry-leading VxWorks 6.x operating system and backed by 25 years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.
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Key Features and Functionality
- VxWorks API conformance: VxWorks DO-178B Platform includes more than 240 VxWorks 6 APIs, selected for exact compliance to DO-178B safety standards. This common set of API calls has substantial functionality, including cache, clock, event flag, interrupt, memory management, message queue, ring buffer, semaphore, signal, and task management calls, along with a wide array of C library functions.
- DO-178B Level A certification evidence: Once development is complete, Wind River's certification evidence DVD can be used to build and test the final software system for certification. This DVD contains all required source, binary, and documentation to support DO-178B Level A, B, C, or D certification of the operating system. The certification evidence is delivered as a complete package on a DVD in an advanced, hyperlinked format for easy navigation and traceability, an advantage over systems that require expensive, time-consuming certification services.
- Wind River Workbench development suite: VxWorks DO-178B Platform includes the award-winning Wind River Workbench development suite. Wind River Workbench is an Eclipse-based collection of tools designed to accelerate time-to-market for developers building devices with VxWorks real-time operating systems. From hardware and board initialization to application development, Workbench offers deep capability across the development process in a single environment, with complete platform integration, including powerful tools for debugging, code analysis, and test. Based on the Eclipse framework, Workbench can be extended through in-house, third-party, open source, and commercial plug-ins. In addition to the Workbench Eclipse-based environment, VxWorks DO-178B Platform provides a full-featured command-line build system and debugging tools for developers who prefer this type of environment. These command-line tools can be easily integrated into a customized build system. The Workbench development environment helps reduce development costs, helps manage code complexity, eases tool integration, and enables standardization on a common development foundation across the enterprise.
- Wind River Network Stack: Wind River Network Stack for VxWorks DO-178B is an optional embedded TCP/UDP/IPv4 network stack that can be used in conjunction with VxWorks DO-178B Platform. Like all Wind River DO-178B certification products, Network Stack for VxWorks DO-178B has a complete DVD of certification evidence, suitable for DO-178B certifications at the highest level, Level A. This network stack uses the same APIs as Wind River Advanced Networking Technologies and supports the BSD sockets API (datagram, stream, and raw sockets), enabling the easy migration of networking software from VxWorks and Linux platforms.
- Extensive partner ecosystem: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has established the Device Software Optimization (DSO) industry's widest-ranging partner ecosystem, joining forces with leading hardware and software providers to address such technologies as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) boards, system modeling tools, control design tools, test tools, certification services, and platform simulation applications.
Supported Host Operating Systems
- Windows XP, Windows Vista
- Solaris 9, Solaris 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Workstation 4 and 5
- Red Hat Fedora 9
- OpenSUSE Linux 10.2 and 11
