TECHNICAL ARTICLES
What is the Cost of a Real-time Operating System (RTOS)?
Tim Loveless & Lynnette Reese: Jul 7, 2020 2:38:44 PM
INTRODUCTION Choosing an RTOS, regardless of the cost, involves many considerations, including accommodating your specific hardware architecture, the scalability of the RTOS, response requirements, peripheral support, scheduler, services, libraries,...
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Challenges Building Safe Multicore Systems
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Jun 15, 2020 8:12:09 AM
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Best Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) Vendors (2020)
James Deutch | Principal Field Applications Engineer: May 8, 2020 2:16:17 PM
_______________ Lynx Software Technologies has built and supported real-time operating systems (RTOSes) since 1988. We have witnessed hardware and embedded software technologies evolve and have supported our customers through the design,...
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What Is A Separation Kernel?
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Mar 22, 2020 12:02:33 PM
_______________ Having built both separation kernels and real-time operating systems—and supported customers using both across a wide range of industries—we are familiar with the pros and cons of each software technology, as well as their security,...
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Field Notes: Safety-Critical Systems Symposium 2020
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Feb 24, 2020 12:34:50 PM
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TC-16/51: Adding Bottom Up Interference Analysis for MCPs
Mark Brown | Systems Architect: Jan 28, 2020 2:20:00 PM
_______________ I hadn't heard of "bottom up" avionics certification before I read FAA's TC-16/51. But now, looking back at it, I think the authors from Thales Avionics, including Xavier Jean, PhD, proposed a big change in perspective. In their own...
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What Are the Problems with Embedded Linux?
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Jan 13, 2020 10:24:00 AM
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Lynx & ENSCO Demonstrate Avionics Solutions at DSEI JAPAN 2019
Dan Westerberg | Senior Systems Engineer: Nov 18, 2019 2:29:00 PM
The most formidable challenges of modern avionics development programs are often centered around the safety certification process and the corresponding requirements and costs. Equally as challenging to any large development program are the design...
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Overarching Properties: An Alternative to DO-178
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Nov 16, 2019 10:20:00 AM
_______________ Overarching Properties—an alternative design assurance approach to DO-178C—marks the biggest change in airborne software safety certification since DO-178B was unveiled in 1992. Intended to be more efficient and flexible than...
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