Wind River VxWorks
Technology
Core Areas of Innovation
VxWorks strives to innovate in key requirement areas for embedded systems. By their very nature, embedded systems are constrained by memory, performance, and power consumption. Application requirements continuously grow to satisfy new safety and security standards and customer value criteria such as rich user interfaces and connectivity. Wind River continues to innovate in the following areas:
- Multi-core/multi-OS: VxWorks has been designed to be used in various multi-core configurations as a single operating system in symmetrical multiprocessing (SMP) and asymmetrical (AMP) modes or as a guest OS on top of Wind River Hypervisor.
- Security and safety: VxWorks innovations in safe and secure systems include a certifiable OS for very stringent safety standards such as FAA/RTCA DO-178B Level A, IEC 61508, and ARINC 653. VxWorks also provides a multiple levels of security (MLS), high robustness security RTOS for the demanding requirements of the Common Criteria and National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP). VxWorks is the first real-time operating system to be certified under Wurldtech's Achilles certification program, an internationally recognized standard for industrial cyber security.
- Connectivity: VxWorks has connectivity solutions for every facet of embedded systems communications, from device to device via USB and core to core in an AMP multi-core system with MIPC to our industry-leading advanced networking.
- Graphics: VxWorks and Wind River Media Library form a robust platform for embedded graphics solutions. With Wind River Tilcon Graphics Suite, developers have a complete graphical user interface (GUI) development system for next-generation devices.
VxWorks Core Strengths
Wind River takes pride in the core strengths of VxWorks that have resulted in it being the proven leader in embedded operating systems. VxWorks continues to provide improvements in each of the following core strength areas:
- Footprint: In memory-constrained devices, memory footprint is a key concern. VxWorks has a completely configurable and tunable memory footprint. You control how much of the operating system you need.
- Real-time performance: VxWorks is a hard real-time operating system capable of dealing with the most demanding time constraints. VxWorks is also a high-performance OS tuned for both determinism and responsiveness.
- Reliability: VxWorks is a high-reliability OS. It provides certification evidence required by strict security standards. Even for non-safety-critical systems, VxWorks is counted on to run forever, error free.
- Scalability: VxWorks is useful in very small-scale devices and used in large-scale networking systems. VxWorks is scalable in terms of memory footprint and functionality; our customers can tune it to exactly what they need for their products.
VxWorks Technology Highlights
Hardware
Multi-core
Middleware
- Networking
- Advanced networking
- Network security
- Mobility
- Wireless
- Network management
- Graphics
- Connectivity
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