VxWorks

Industry’s leading real-time operating system for building embedded devices and systems. Its rich functionality helps our customers deploy innovative products while lowering costs and shortening production cycles.

VxWorks Cert Platform

Overview

VxWorks has been the industry-leading Real-time Operating System (RTOS) developed by Wind River Systems for building embedded devices and systems for more than 30 years. Its rich functionality helps our customers deploy innovative products while lowering costs and shortening production cycles. As the industry rapidly evolves, there is an urgent demand for a new approach, one that will support developers of all backgrounds to use the tools and programming languages they are most comfortable with to build the applications of tomorrow.

Built on an upgradeable, future-proof architecture, VxWorks Real-time operating systems helps customers quickly respond to changing market needs, customer needs, and technology advancements. The Real-time Operating System, VxWorks delivers a comprehensive set of security features to efficiently protect devices, data, and intellectual property in a connected world. It is flexible enough to meet a wide variety of memory footprint, functionality, and processing power requirements. Additionally, it offers a cutting-edge real-time operating environment designed to streamline the creation of distinctive, certifiable systems, ultimately lowering costs, mitigating risks, and shortening lead times.

Bringing the ease of desktop, enterprise, and cloud-native development to embedded, the latest version of VxWorks RTOS includes: first and only Real-time Operating System to support C++17, Boost, Python, and Rust collection of technologies, along with continued support for languages like Ada and SPARK; new LLVM-based infrastructure that enables support for a broad set of modern and productive tools and frameworks; new open-source board support packages (BSPs) such as Raspberry Pi and TI Sitara AM65x for quick prototyping and flexibility of choice, and OpenSSL 1.1.1 for the most up-to-date cryptography libraries.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

  • Expandable and upgradable architecture
  • Scalable footprint
  • Broad connectivity
  • Uncompromising security and safety
  • ARINC 653–compliant platform
  • MILS support for multilevel secure systems
  • Safety-critical certification support
  • Proven virtualization technology
  • Java runtime support
  • Lower risk and faster integration of third-party technology
  • Lower risk and faster integration of third-party technology
  • Better reliability with state-of-the-art memory protection
  • Multi-core benefits, maximized