New-Tech Europe Magazine | August 2017

AeroSpace Special Edition

VxWorks 653 Multi-core Edition Update: Why COTS Certification Evidence Matters

Stephen Olsen, Product Manager, Wind River

The growing demand for highly complex aircraft systems is placing increased pressure on suppliers to deliver aircraft with far greater capabilities while complying with a growing demand for safety certification, as most advanced cockpits require software that is considered safety-critical. One way to address this complexity is to use more commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software technologies that come with certification evidence that can be included in the submission with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), EASA, or other safety agencies who grant the authorization to operate an aircraft. When technology suppliers create this evidence significant risk

designs, tests, reviews, source code, build files, test results, annotated object-level code coverage, and tool qualification data for critical integrated modular avionics (IMA) systems. The delivery of this COTS certification evidence: 1. Allows suppliers to leverage the safety-proven base platform from Wind River, building against the certified binaries to speed up their certification process in next generation safety-certified systems using multi-core processors 2. Removes significant certification and deployment risk from avionics programs 3. Increases certification evidence quality and depth that is not

is removed from avionics companies who must minimize this risk at all levels of a new program. This becomes even more important when using multi-core processors where there is no straightforward path to certification; therefore the project risk increases exponentially. To help avionics suppliers reduce the risk and cost of certification, Wind River today announced the certification evidence release for VxWorks® 653 Multi-core Edition on an advanced PowerPC multi-core processor, meeting the rigorous RTCA DO-178C and EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A requirements. This release adds the certification evidence package needed to comply with the FAA’s safety requirements –

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