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Safety critical application with VxWorks 653

Wind River Supports Airbus in its Certification Milestone
for Automatic Air-to-Air Refueling (A3R)

Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, has collaborated with Airbus to support the A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) for automatic air-to-air refueling (A3R) aircraft. The MRTT aircraft is the world’s first tanker to be certified for automatic air-to-air refueling boom operations in daylight.
Airbus uses VxWorks 653 for the A330 MRTT air-to-air refueling boom system (ARBS). This system is comprised of multiple ARINC 653-compliant applications running at multiple levels of safety-criticality and achieved DO-178C DAL A certification. With this development, the Airbus A330 MRTT A3R capability has earned the distinction of being certified by the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA), involving multiple ED-12C / DO-178C DAL A applications running simultaneously on multiple cores on a multicore processor.
Innovative technology

Real-time software solution

“A3R is a significant milestone in the evolution of airborne refueling systems. It is an honor to work with Airbus and play an important role in its latest A3R achievement,” said Avijit Sinha, chief product officer, Wind River.
“The use of our industry-leading technology demonstrates continuing Wind River leadership in safety-critical real-time software solutions for mission critical systems. Wind River is able to help customers successfully navigate the challenges and complexities around certification.”
“Airbus is the first worldwide company to certify an airborne military equipment with an embedded multicore processor to the highest assurance level DAL-A covering CAST-32A requirements.

For nearly 35 years, VxWorks has been used to provide the security and reliability that companies need to design and build mission-critical embedded systems that simply must work
VxWorks is proven in the most demanding safety-critical applications, making it easier and more cost-effective for technology providers to meet the stringent safety certification requirements of EN 50128, IEC 61508, ISO 26262, DO-178C and ED-12C
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