Wind River has announced that Leonardo, one of the world’s leading players in the aerospace, defense, and security sector, has selected VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) to deliver software-defined advancements for its state-of-the-art safety-related radio frequency (RF) system on multicore processor architectures.
To address the challenge of using different multi-core processor architectures for individual system functions within the Leonardo RF system, the company is using VxWorks to provide a common application runtime environment across processor architectures. Leonardo is developing applications to run on VxWorks and will undergo DO-178C DAL C certification.
“As multi-core processors drive an increasingly software-defined world, new opportunities are emerging to advance aerospace and defense systems,” said Jay Bellissimo, President, Wind River.
“Together with Leonardo, we can help companies navigate a shifting technology landscape – extending the performance and lifespan of their systems while reducing program and certification risk.”
VxWorks provides flexible single-core and multi-core support on different architectures, enabling individual systems to be configured depending on application performance requirements and safety certification requirements.
The first and only commercial RTOS to support Open Container Initiative (OCI)–compliant containers, VxWorks OCI container implementation uses a lightweight minimal footprint combined with VxWorks Real-Time Processes (RTP). This enables the development of containerized applications on VxWorks and can enable Leonardo to rapidly deploy new software-defined capabilities.
