Mercury adds Green Hills real-time software to ROCK-2 safety-certifiable avionics subsystem
ANDOVER, Mass. – Mercury Systems Inc. in Andover, Mass., announced that its BuiltSAFE ROCK-2 safety-certifiableavionics subsystem is available pre-integrated with the Green Hills Software safe and secure INTEGRITY-178 tuMP (time-variant unified multiprocessing) real-time software operating system.
INTEGRITY-178 tuMP enables the full multi-core capabilities of the ROCK-2 subsystem in applications requiring DO-178C safety certification. The combined software and hardware solution is aligned with the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) V2.1 technical standard.
The BuiltSAFE ROCK-2 avionics computer is a 3U OpenVPX subsystem pre-integrated with a choice of BuiltSAFE single-board computers with multi-core processors, avionics I/O, video processing, and software such as the BuiltSAFE graphics suite.
The ROCK-2 avionics computer is designed to enable different sections of the chassis to run at different design assurance levels (DAL) to facilitate a variety of technologies to augment the portion of the application that needs to run at highest safety level.
The choice of INTEGRITY-178 tuMP as the real-time operating system gives systems integrators deterministic low-level control over core affinity and use on the ROCK-2, compliant to CAST-32A.
The INTEGRITY-178 tuMP real-time operating system is for safety- and security-critical systems based on modern multi-core processors. INTEGRITY-178 tuMP improves flexibility in how the processor cores can be used.
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The tuMP architecture has common OS controls the scheduling for of all processor cores and the overall communications between applications. INTEGRITY-178 tuMP supports the ARINC-653 interfaces and operating system capabilities necessary to align with the FACE V2.1 standard.
INTEGRITY-178 tuMP meets the ARINC-653 standard's requirement for multi-core operation as defined in Section 2 of Supplement 4 for the ARINC-653 standard.
For more information contact Mercury Systems online at www.mrcy.com.
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