Wind River Delivers Accelerated Safety Certification for Multi-Core with New VxWorks Profile
19 November 2014 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Safety Profile for VxWorks delivers
functionality aimed at development of safety critical systems
across wide range of market segments.
- New features include advanced time and
space partitioning on multi-core and optional IEC 61508-3 SIL3
certification evidence package.
- Wind River continues its legacy of
helping customers address the most critical safety requirements
with robust safety features across its product portfolio.
Wind River®, a world leader in delivering software for
intelligent connected systems, has introduced a safety profile for
the next-generation version of its VxWorks® real-time operating
system (RTOS). The profile adds safety features to VxWorks 7 aimed
at development of safety critical systems in industrial, medical,
transportation, aerospace, and defense. Additionally, Wind River
has enhanced its Virtualization Profile for VxWorks.
The new Safety Profile for VxWorks delivers advanced time and
space partitioning capabilities to ensure reliable,
interference-free consolidation of multiple applications with
different levels of safety criticality on one hardware platform,
single or multi-core. Consolidation helps customers meet stringent
safety requirements with a variety of system design options while
driving down bill-of-material and maintenance costs. Furthermore,
separation of applications of different criticality levels allows
customers to update specific applications in a targeted fashion,
without having to retest or recertify the entire system.
In addition, the profile has received pre-approval by TÜV SÜD
for IEC 61508-3 SIL3 conformance. The optional certification
evidence package will help VxWorks customers reduce cost, risk, and
time-to-certification for their embedded systems. Safety Profile
will also serve as the future foundation that will help customers
certify their devices to additional IEC standards.
“With Safety Profile for VxWorks, developers can take full
advantage of technological advances in microprocessors that VxWorks
enables, with the confidence that they will have a strong OS
foundation to meet the most demanding safety certification
standards,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president of product
management at Wind River. “For three-plus decades Wind River has
been a trusted technology partner to companies in markets where
safety and reliability are paramount, and this is just another
proof point of our commitment to providing robust safety features
across our product portfolio.”
Separately, the recently launched Virtualization Profile
for VxWorks now provides support for device virtualization
through the open VirtIO standard. Device virtualization further
reduces the mechanical footprint and cost base of consolidated
systems, and lowers the barrier to virtualization in the embedded
domain, while the use of the VirtIO standard allows any operating
system to use the virtualized devices.
Recognized as the industry-leading RTOS, VxWorks boasts a
modular, scalable architecture that separates the VxWorks core from
middleware, applications, and other packages, enabling bug fixes,
upgrades, and new feature additions to be accomplished faster.
Wind River will be showcasing the latest features and
capabilities of VxWorks 7 at SPS IPC Drives in Nuremberg, Germany,
November 25–27, booth no. 6-305.
More information about Safety Profile for VxWorks is available
at http://tinyurl.com/VxWorksSafety.
About Wind River
Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation
(NASDAQ:INTC), is a world leader in delivering software for
intelligent connected systems. The company has been pioneering
computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is
found in nearly 2 billion products. Wind River offers the
industry's most comprehensive embedded software portfolio,
supported by world-class global professional services and support
and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the technology
and expertise that enables the innovation and deployment of safe,
secure, and reliable intelligent systems. To learn more, visit Wind
River at www.windriver.com.
Wind River is a trademark or registered trademark of Wind River
Systems, Inc. and its affiliates. Other names may be the trademarks
of their respective owners.
Wind RiverJessica Miller,
510-749-2727jessica.miller@windriver.com
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