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Wind River VxWorks Cert Platform provides a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platform for delivering safety critical applications that must be certified to the stringent requirements of RTCA DO-178B and EUROCAE ED-12B (“Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification”) and IEC 61508 and other related software standards. With VxWorks Cert Platform, developers can take full advantage of technological advances in microprocessors that the VxWorks COTS real-time operating system (RTOS) enables, with the assurance that they will have a strong operating system foundation to meet the most demanding safety certification standards.

The platform is based on Wind River's industry-leading VxWorks 6.x operating system and backed by 25 years of safety critical software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.

Features

Key features and functionality include the following:

• VxWorks API conformance: VxWorks Cert Platform includes more than 240 VxWorks 6.x APIs, selected for exact compliance to safety certification 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, 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.
• IEC 61508 certification evidence: VxWorks Cert Platform is backed by the industry’s most comprehensive set of certification artifacts, which supports all IEC 61508 SIL 3 requirements. A fully hyperlinked DVD enables rapid traceability analysis of certification data, from the requirements, design, source and binary code, and test case phases, using a simple browser. With this certification evidence DVD, the review of piles of printed and individual computer-based certification artifacts is no longer required. This DVD contains the VxWorks Cert Platform Safety Manual and all required IEC 61508 SIL 3 documentation. The certification package also includes the TÜV certificate for VxWorks Cert Platform.
• Wind River Workbench development suite: VxWorks Cert 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 Cert 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 and manage code complexity, eases tool integration, and enables standardization on a common development foundation across the enterprise.
• VxWorks Cert Network Stack: This optional embedded TCP/UDP/IPv4 network stack can be used in conjunction with VxWorks Cert Platform for safety critical systems. VxWorks Cert Network Stack has a complete set of certification evidence, suitable for DO-178B certifications at the highest level, Level A and IEC 61508 SIL3.
• VxWorks Cert File System: This optional add-on product provides a power-fail-safe, transaction-based file system, with support for data volumes and hierarchical file organization, with access using standard I/O library APIs. The VxWorks Cert File System has a complete set of certification evidence, suitable for DO-178B certifications at the highest level, Level A and IEC 61508 SIL3.
• Extensive partner ecosystem: To ensure integrated technologies, Wind River has established the embedded 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.