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The cost pressure on Aerospace & Defense manufacturers has grown tremendously. As a result, major obstacles for these industries include software components reusability, untangling of integration complexity, and facilitating after-sales updates and upgrades. These issues are always intertwined with aspects of safety, security and certification. Using commercial off the shelf platforms will help overcome these obstacles.

SYSGO solutions

SYSGO has developed expertise on certification for security- and safety-critical applications both in terms of products and in terms of services. PikeOS product is the only product on the market designed from ground up to offer embedded virtualization that is also DO-178B certified. Personalities like ARINC-653 or Certified POSIX have been specifically developed for the avionics industry, as well as RTEMS on LEON processor for the space sector. As embedded Linux is more and more considered for non-highly critical applications, ELinOS is being used in actual aircraft equipment. The complementary with PikeOS makes it the product of choice for new IMA based systems where different levels of criticality have to co-exist on the same platform. SYSGO has been involved in different avionics projects requiring the integration of AFDX functionality. The Safety-Critical Ethernet solution is the first DO-178B certified software based implementation of its kind.

Aerospace & Defense Customers

The aerospace and defense industry has developed new system strategies, especially the integrated modular avionics concept (IMA),  to meet the challenges. With PikeOS SYSGO offers a virtualization platform enabling developers to introduce the IMA concept in avionics applications. The implementation of IMA results in savings of weight, cabling, and space leading to a reduction of time and costs in the development process, during operations and maintenance. See how customers of the aerospace and defense industry used PikeOS in their projects.

Rheinmetall Defense

PikeOS for A400M - Rheinmetall Defence

Aerospace industry is still a technology leader. Regulations and economic aspectshave motivated airplane manufacturers to new pace. The IMA concept has beendeveloped to reduce the complexity of avionics devices in order to save costs ofproduction and maintenance of aircrafts. The PikeOS concept has been developedin order to fulfill these requirements. The new approach might also be a solutionfor other complex equipment systems that range in scale from automotive toindustrial automation.

Further information:

 SYSGO's PikeOS achieved decisive step in DO-178B certification for the A400M transport aircraft - 20-09-10 10:58
 Rheinmetall selects DO-178B certifiable PikeOS from SYSGO for A400M project - 10-12-08 16:29
 IMA and PikeOS for Safety (833 KB)

www.rheinmetall-defence.com/index.php

Airbus A350

FSA-NG for A350 - Airbus

AIRBUS selects SYSGO's PikeOS as DO-178B reference platform for the A350 XWB

Further information:

 AIRBUS selects SYSGO’s PikeOS as DO-178B reference platform for the A350 XWB - 18-11-08 16:34

www.airbus.com/en/aircraftfamilies/a350/

Meggitt - Vibrometer

Safety-Critical Ethernet for flight data transmission - MEGGITT

The amount of electronic components used in airplanes is still rising. Additionally, the amount of information distributed and shared throughout the avionic network is increasing since applications more and more rely on information gathered from distributed systems.

Further information:

 SYSGO’s AFDX® software solution achieves DO-178B certification on Vibro-Meter's avionics equipment - 10-11-09 14:09
 Certified Virtualization and AFDX® on Freescale's dual-core PowerQUICC III  - 27-10-09 10:54
 Portable AFDX® - SYSGO provides first software-only Implementation for AFDX® - 05-05-06 09:24
 Safety-Critical Ethernet for flight data transmission (1.7 MB)

www.meggitt.com

European Space Agency (ESA)

Securely Partitioning Spacecraft Computing Resources - ESA

ESA uses PikeOS Safe and Secure Virtualization for partitioning of spacecraft computing resources.

Further information:

 SYSGO’s PikeOS selected for ESA project with SciSys and Astrium - 11-03-09 09:45

www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html

Airplane Prototype Measurement System - Zodiac

SYSGO's embedded Linux expertise was selected by Zodiac Data Systems to develop airplane prototype measurement system. The two companies planned and developed together an intelligent mass storage device, an embedded system that is able to make an adjustable preprocessing and data reduction, and that saves the data on a mass storage device.

Further information:

  SYSGO partners with ZODIAC Data Systems GmbH  - 03-08-10 17:01

www.zodiac-data-systems.de/default.aspx

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