Paul Davis looks at how netbooting provides a superior alternative solution for installing and updating software that delivers huge labor savings.

ANSI/VITA 47 is an American National Standards Institute standard that defines a rigorous test regime, enabling vendors to demonstrate that their VPX product is designed to perform optimally, while complying with specific environmental, manufacture, safety and quality criteria.

Aaron Frank and Ivan Straznicky look at VITA 47 for ruggedization and reliability. The VITA Standards Organization’s ANSI/VITA 47 targets the Environments, Design and Construction, Safety, and Quality for Plug-In Units.

Demo features Harris’s FACE conformant FliteScene® Digital Moving Map Software, Green Hills Software INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS and Curtiss-Wright SBC and Graphics cards for Embedded Avionics Applications

COTS-based IData Human Machine Interface (HMI) demonstration features FACE™ aligned LynxOS-178 2.2.4 RTCA/DO-178B Level A Safety Certified RTOS with Curtiss-Wright’s VPX3-131 single board computer (SBC) and XMC-715 AMD E4690 high-performance graphics processor.

There is significant commonality between unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and UUV environments with standard rugged military commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded solutions often applicable to both.

Demo highlights advantages of time partitioned/unified operating system approach for certified applications, using multicore INTEGRITY-178 tuMP RTOS and RTGL OpenGL SC libraries running on OpenVPX SBC

LynxOS-178 2.2.4 RTCA/DO-178B level a safety certified RTOS supports and is aligned with the FACE™ APIs for security, safety base, and safety extended profiles of the FACE Operating System Segment.