News Release from: Birdstep Technology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 April 2004
Embedded database helps airborne early warning
The Boeing Company is using Birdstep's RDM Embedded database in its AWACS airborne warning and control system.
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The Boeing Company is using Birdstep's RDM Embedded database in its AWACS airborne warning and control system. The AWACS aircraft employs complex real-time avionic systems to meet the operational objectives of the AWACS' customers. The system responsiveness and reliability are important attributes of the AWACS avionics.
All system components must ensure that the operational objectives are not compromised.
Boeing selected RDM Embedded because it provides the performance required to ensure that the data necessary for operation are available when needed.
The AWACS avionics includes the WindRiver VxWorks 5.5 operating systems, and because RDM Embedded is validated on VxWorks 5.5, selecting RDM Embedded allowed the Boeing engineers to start development immediately.
Additionally, the XML interface on RDM Embedded simplified the database-loading task.
"Birdstep's RDM Embedded was an easy selection because it offers all of the functionality we needed on our target platform.
Birdstep has consistently exhibited exceptional cooperation to meet all of our business demands including providing source code for the database", according to a Boeing spokesperson.
Birdstep's RDM Embedded is a feature-rich database ideal for embedding into critical applications.
RDM Embedded provides exceptional performance and reliability in a small footprint.
The combination of features, performance and size has made RDM Embedded popular for a variety of applications.
"Birdstep is committed to making RDM Embedded the database of choice for the aerospace industry.
We are driven to provide companies like Boeing with a fast and resilient database for their critical applications while meeting their business objectives", said Tom Clark, Birdstep Technology CEO.
Birdstep Technology now offers free software development kits available for download from its website.
Downloading free SDKs allows interested parties to immediately begin working with Birdstep's RDM databases.
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