SANTA
BARBARA, Calif. and ANDOVER,
Mass., June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Green
Hills Software and Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) announced today
that they have entered the verification phase for providing DO-178C
and AC 20-193 (formerly CAST-32A) airworthiness evidence for the
INTEGRITY®-178 tuMP™ safety-critical real-time operating
system (RTOS) running on quad-core 11th Gen Intel® Core™
i7 processors (formerly Tiger Lake). This phase follows the
successful delivery of the customer-specific Plan for Software
Aspects of Certification (PSAC). The successful PSAC sets
INTEGRITY-178 tuMP on the path to becoming the first operating
system certified on that processor for DO-178C DAL A and multicore
objectives. The first customer for the multicore Tiger Lake
assurance package is a US Army aviation program of record, and
other programs can adopt the same solution with reduced risk and
faster time-to-deployment. Complete SOSA™ aligned development
systems are available now, and production systems are expected by
the end of next year.
The FACE®-conformant INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS has been
available for 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processors since 2021. Mercury
selected INTEGRITY-178 tuMP for its unparalleled pedigree of both
airborne safety and security certifications. That pedigree includes
the only civil multicore certification to DO-178C and AC
20-193/CAST-32A objectives, as well as its certified conformance to
the FACE Technical Standard, its high multicore utilization, and
its low cost over the full life cycle of the program.
"Mercury's MOSA-aligned safety-critical mission computers based
on SOSA and FACE open standards enable seamless integration of
newer, more advanced technology across all aircraft," said
Roya Montakhab, Senior Vice
President and General Manager of Integrated Processing Solutions at
Mercury. "The Green Hills FACE-certified INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS is
a critical component for our DAL A architecture and provides a
low-risk path to multicore certification, which supports multiple
applications through a converged architecture and speeds capability
deployment."
"Green Hills Software is excited to be developing certification
software life-cycle data for our unique DAL A multicore solution on
the 11th Gen Intel Core i7 processors," said Dan O'Dowd, founder and CEO of Green Hills
Software. "Whereas other companies have claimed to have a multicore
certification, only INTEGRITY tuMP has passed a true DAL A civil
certification to DO-178C multicore objectives."
The INTEGRITY-178 tuMP safety-critical RTOS from Green Hills
Software is the only operating system to be part of a successful
multicore certification to DO-178C and AC 20-193/ CAST-32A
objectives. INTEGRITY-178 tuMP is also the only RTOS that has been
used in a certification to NSA's "Raise the Bar" set of security
standards for cross domain systems (CDS), and it is capable of
hosting multi-level security (MLS) applications. INTEGRITY-178 tuMP
is a multicore RTOS with support for running a multi-threaded DAL A
application across multiple processor cores in symmetric
multi-processing (SMP) or bound multi-processing (BMP)
configurations, as well as supporting the more basic asymmetric
multi-processing (AMP). INTEGRITY-178 tuMP was the first RTOS to be
certified conformant to the FACE Technical Standard, edition 3.0,
and it is the only RTOS with multicore interference mitigation for
all shared resources, enabling the system integrator to meet AC
20-193/CAST-32A objectives. Multicore interference happens when
more than one processor core attempts simultaneous access to a
shared resource, such as system memory, I/O, or the on-chip
interconnect. To further ease compliance to AC 20-193, Green Hills
provides bandwidth allocation and monitoring (BAM) functionality in
INTEGRITY-178 tuMP that ensures that critical applications get
their allocated access to shared resources in order to meet their
required deadlines, significantly lowering integration and
certification risk. Together, the flexible multi-processing
architecture and multicore interference mitigation enable a system
integrator to maximize multicore processor performance while
meeting safety and security requirements.
Mercury Systems – Innovation that matters®
Mercury
Systems is a technology company that delivers mission-critical
processing power to the edge to solve the most pressing aerospace
and defense challenges. Combining technologies and expertise
developed for more than 40 years, the Mercury Processing Platform
offers customers a unique advantage to unleash breakthrough
capabilities. It spans the full breadth of signal processing—from
RF front end to the human-machine interface—enabling customers to
turn data into decisions with standard products and custom
solutions from silicon to system scale. Mercury's products and
solutions are deployed in more than 300 programs and across 35
countries. The company is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts, and has 24 locations
worldwide. To learn more, visit mrcy.com. (Nasdaq: MRCY)
About Green Hills Software
Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is the worldwide leader in
embedded safety and security. In 2008, the Green Hills
INTEGRITY-178 RTOS was the first and only operating system to be
certified by NIAP (National Information Assurance Partnership
comprised of NSA & NIST) to EAL 6+, High Robustness, the
highest level of security ever achieved for any software product.
Our open architecture, integrated development solutions address
deeply embedded, absolute security and high-reliability
applications for the military/avionics, medical, industrial,
automotive, networking, consumer and other markets that demand
industry-certified solutions. Green Hills Software is headquartered
in Santa Barbara, CA, with
European headquarters in the United
Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software at www.ghs.com.
Green Hills, the Green Hills logo, INTEGRITY and tuMP are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Green Hills Software in the
U.S. and/or internationally. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.
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