Windriver and Esterel development.

Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced that it has established a new product integration with Esterel Technologies. The partnership will incorporate formal design and development technologies into safety-critical software for the avionics industry, which delivers advanced 3-D graphics and video displays, utilizing more data than ever before and requiring a new design process. The result is code generated from Esterel's SCADE Suite[R] and SCADE Display[TM] targeted for Wind River's VxWorks 653[R] platform, which is safety-certified to DO-178B Level A and fully conformant to ARINC 653, Supplement 2 Part 1. These combined commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions claims to allow avionics systems suppliers to save up to 35% or more over the life of a DO-178B certified system. Wind River's VxWorks 653 Integrated Multiple Avionics (IMA) platform allows display functions to be integrated into time- and space-partitioned systems using standard COTS platforms. Developers of displays can now focus on providing added functionality and new features rather than building a foundation from scratch to meet rigorous safety standards. Technology from Esterel gives the embedded developer the ability to efficiently design safety-critical avionics display applications targeted for the Wind River platform. The integration between Esterel and Wind River products includes qualified code generation, verification, and enhanced support for OpenGL SC, safety-critical graphics in the deployed system.

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