Wind River®, a global enabler in delivering software for intelligent systems, has announced that Wind River Helix™ Virtualization Platform now supports the Intel Xeon D-1700 and D-2700 processors and 11th Gen Intel Core™ processors.
Part of Wind River Studio, Helix Platform is a safety-certifiable multi-core, multi-tenant platform with support for multiple independent levels of criticality. It is designed for broad industry use cases, including but not limited to:
Commercial and military avionics
General operating system (OS) consolidation for reduction of space, weight, and/or power in industrial, medical, and automotive settings
Mixed levels of criticality to run unsafe software alongside software certified to the highest level in avionics (DO-178C), automotive (ISO 26262), industrial (IEC 61508), and other similar standards
Key Helix Platform features include:
True Type 1 hypervisor (not hosted in a real-time OS or requiring a special service OS)
64-bit multi-core leveraging advanced Intel virtualization technologies
Single and multi-core guests
Mix-and-match 32- and 64-bit unmodified guests
Support for ARINC 653 Application Executive (APEX)
FACE™ 3.1 conformance
Multiple device models, including emulated, passthrough, shared, or para-virtualized
No limits on the number of concurrent guests (Linux, RTOS, bare metal)
Proven fault isolation and containment
“Increasingly, with the growth of the intelligent edge, industries such as aerospace and defense, automotive, and industrial bring unique sets of requirements and challenges. With Helix Platform support for Intel Xeon D and 11th Gen Intel Core™, Wind River is expanding architecture support to address the demanding needs of highly compute-heavy mission-critical applications,” said Avijit Sinha, chief product officer, Wind River.
“From ever-evolving regulations to technology obsolescence and application performance uncertainty, the safety and compliance of mission-critical, multi-core applications across industries is essential. Collaboration with Wind River helps to remove the complexities of maintaining necessary safety and security requirements, while also accelerating time-to-market. This furthers Intel’s commitment to enable end user innovation and achieve mission success,” said Tony Franklin, general manager, Network and Edge – Federal and Aerospace at Intel.
Proven in the most challenging safety-critical applications, Wind River technology makes it easier and more cost-effective for organizations to meet the stringent safety certification requirements of EN 50128, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, DO-178C, and ED-12C.
With technology proven by more than 400 customers in over 800 safety programs in more than 100 civilian and military aircraft, Wind River is driving the transition to software-defined systems in aerospace and defense.
