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Wind River partners with Smiths Aerospace
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 10 September 2002, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Wind River Systems Inc is teaming with transatlantic aerospace equipment company Smiths Aerospace, to deliver a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software solution compliant with the Aeronautical Radio, Incorporation (ARINC) 653 avionics application software standard.
A release stated that the solution features Wind River's new Tornado for Safety Critical Systems platform. This supports the development of a wide range of safety/mission-critical embedded and desktop systems including aerospace avionics applications, military ground vehicle platforms, military and civil ground control stations as well as automotive and telecommunication devices.
"The agreement with Wind River would help Smiths provide value to its customers by reducing the cost, size, power consumption and weight of its avionics products," said Wind River India Country Manager Ajit Edlabadkar. "As part of the agreement, Smiths Aerospace is providing funding, market expertise and project management."
"Our relationship with Smiths would also be of interest to the Indian defense labs who are also users of our technology. We see a lot of synergy in the work being done here and that at Smiths. The Indian defense business is of strategic importance to Wind River and we hope to build a strong relationship with various DRDO labs here," added Edlabadkar.
The Tornado for Safety Critical Systems platform combines Wind River's securely partitioned VxWorks AE653 real-time operating system (RTOS), Tornado III integrated development environment and safety-critical features necessary to fully support robust partitioning of applications.