Date: 22/11/2008

DDC-I enters embedded RTOS market

DDC-I has entered RTOS Market by launching a pair of safety-critical RTOSes. The first, known as Deos, targets the high-end safety-critical market, with a focus on military and aerospace applications requiring safe operation and/or DO-178B Level A certification. The second RTOS, a microkernel known as the HeartOS, will target general embedded as well as low- to mid-range safety-critical applications. Both are based on technology developed at Honeywell.

Bob Morris, president and CEO of DDC-I said, "Deos and HeartOS are the first commercial RTOSes built from the ground up to address the performance, reliability, security, and certification requirements of safety-critical applications, and have been certified on more airframes than all other COTS RTOSes combined."
"DDC-I has been providing software development tools, run-time platforms and services to the safety-critical industry for more than 20 years," added Morris. "Now we are leveraging that expertise to offer turnkey safety-critical software platforms with tightly integrated, full-featured COTS RTOSes -- platforms that address all aspects of development, certification, and deployment."
DDC-I will also provide previously certified artifacts up to DO-178B Level A.
Deos (DDC-I Embedded Operating System) is optimized for safety-critical applications high reliability, real-time performance, testability, and formal certifiability. Features patented "slack" scheduling mechanism that achieves 100% CPU utilization. Deos provides easy and low cost path of any COTS RTOS to DO-178B Level A certification, the highest level of safety criticality.
The HeartOS, scheduled for release in Q1 of 2009, is a POSIX-compliant, deterministic RTOS optimized for small- to medium-sized safety-critical applications with tight space and time constraints. Certifiable to DO-178B Level A, the HeartOS is configurable and scalable, features a TCP/IP stack, and is available with a small footprint, POSIX-compliant journaling file system.
Development support for DDC-I's RTOS family includes DDC-I's Eclipse-based, OpenArbor Integrated Development Environment. Available with Ada, C/ C++, and RTSJ Java optimizing compilers, the mixed-language IDE features a color-coded source editor, project management support, automated build/make utilities, and a mixed-language, multi-window, symbolic debugger.