Video: © Airbus
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.
