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Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: LynuxWorks | Subject: LynxOS-178 2.3
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 December 2007

OS stacks up advantages for aerospace

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Aircraft such as superliners can now support networked systems such as ARINC 664 AFDX that can communicate inside as well as outside the plane's internal systems.

Billed as a critical advancement in the development of software used onboard commercial and military aircraft, LynuxWorks has unveiled its improved Lynx Certifiable Stack (LCS), a hardware-independent feature in the new LynxOS-178 2.3 LCS represents the richest, most complete, partition-aware, ARINC 664-capable, DO-178B Level A-certifiable network stack on the market, and gives developers the ability to test their software applications in a deployed configuration while also providing support for safety-critical, deterministic networking in an ARINC 653 Integrated Modular Avionics environment