Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform is First Mixed Criticality Solution Conformant to FACE™ Technical Standard, Edition 3.2 Safety Base Profile

Wind River^®, a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge, today announced that Wind River Helix™ Virtualization Platform has achieved conformance to the latest Future Airborne Capability Environment™ (FACE™) Technical Standard, Edition 3.2. The certification establishes Helix Platform as the first mixed criticality hypervisor solution in the operating system segment that supports FACE 3.2 Safety Based Profile conformance.

The demand for more intelligence at the edge while supporting reuse of legacy applications requires industries to adapt quickly to modern software and cloud deployment practices while maintaining dedicated, long-standing software. To meet these challenges, Helix Platform allows legacy software to remain unchanged while running alongside new applications, and it provides the benefits of a consistent, scalable, and agile platform across a wide range of intelligent edge devices. It empowers avionics systems suppliers to consolidate multiple federated systems, integrating both safety-critical and general-purpose applications into a single, secure, and reliable computing platform, reducing risk and costs for future upgrades.

Helix Platform is an adaptive software development environment that enables mixed criticality support for multiple applications and operating systems. It supports robust partitioning, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and RTCA DO-297 Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) considerations to reduce safety certification costs and accelerate time to deployment. Legacy applications and the operating system they run on can be migrated forward, as-is, to new hardware platforms, alongside new functionality, based on industry standards such as the FACE™ Technical Standard to ensure future interoperability and portability.

“With FACE conformance, Helix Platform now helps manufacturers and military services lower procurement costs, as well as avoid and prevent supplier lock-in. Additionally, it enables manufacturers to easily and rapidly integrate ARINC 653 and POSIX^® applications software with other FACE portable software components,” said Sandeep Modhvadia, Chief Product Officer, Wind River. “This latest milestone reinforces our position as a trusted partner for the aerospace and defense community, enabling the realization of next-generation airborne capabilities. Wind River remains committed to advancing our technology for state-of-the-art avionics solutions to maximize interoperability and help our customers accelerate their time to market.”

“I would like to congratulate Wind River on achieving FACE Conformance for their Helix Virtualization Platform. This is the first product conformant to FACE Technical Standard, Edition 3.2,” said Alicia Taylor, The Open Group FACE Consortium Director. “This new addition continues to expand the FACE Registry with the best-in-class solutions for our global warfighters, weapon systems, and air and ground vehicles.”

Wind River worked with its FACE verification authority, TES-SAVI, to complete this latest rigorous FACE certification conformance testing for Helix Platform. The company has a rich heritage of certified platforms used as standard COTS components providing great flexibility and capabilities for the future of IMA systems.

For more information on Helix Platform visit www.windriver.com/products/helix. Learn more about Wind River’s work in aerospace and defense at www.windriver.com/solutions/aerospace-and-defense.

About Wind River

Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge. For more than four decades, the company has been an innovator and pioneer, powering billions of devices and systems that require the highest levels of security, safety, and reliability. Wind River software and expertise are accelerating digital transformation across industries including automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, and telecommunications. The company offers a comprehensive portfolio supported by world-class global professional services and support and a broad partner ecosystem. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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With Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform as the first mixed criticality solution conformant to the latest FACE Technical Standard, Wind River continues to lead the way advancing its technology for state-of-the-art avionics solutions.