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Certifying Innovation: Standards-Based Solutions for Mission-Critical Systems
At Lynx, our solutions are designed to meet and exceed the most stringent industry standards, ensuring safety, interoperability, and security for aerospace, defense, and commercial applications.
Our Vision
Our mission at Lynx is to create the safest and most secure software for managing mission-critical applications, and to make these solutions powerful and easy to work with. We do that by implementing modular design architectures built on open standards and designing for the highest levels of industry certification in safety and security.
Key Offerings
- Modular frameworks like LYNX MOSA.ic for seamless certification and integration.
- Lynx Vigiles for real-time SBOM compliance and vulnerability mitigation.
- Our graphics solutions for safety-critical visualization and compute.
Standards, Directives, & Approaches
Modular Open Systems Approach
Why It Matters:
MOSA simplifies system integration, reduces costs, and promotes interoperability—critical for aerospace and defense programs. It minimizes vendor lock-in, enabling flexibility in meeting future demands.
How We Support It:
Lynx MOSA.ic provides modular integration of third-party and in-house operating systems, ensuring alignment with DoD mandates.
Related Products & Services:
- LYNX MOSA.ic: Modular development platform for MOSA-aligned systems.
- LynxSecure: Separation kernel for secure, mixed-criticality architectures.
Future Airborne Capability Environment
Why It Matters:
FACE fosters software reuse and interoperability for airborne systems, reducing certification costs and speeding up deployment for mission-critical programs.
How We Support It:
LynxOS-178 aligns with FACE technical standards, ensuring certifiability and reuse across systems.
Related Products & Services:
- LynxOS-178: RTOS for FACE and POSIX standards.
- Vulkan SC Libraries: FACE-compliant safety-critical graphics.
Safety and Open Standards for Autonomous and Embedded Edge
Why It Matters:
SOAFEE enables standardization for scalable, secure systems at the edge, critical for automotive, industrial IoT, and defense applications.
How We Support It:
LynxSecure delivers secure virtualization for deterministic compute. SpyKer-TZ offers advanced tracing tools to optimize multicore system performance.
Related Products & Services:
- SpyKer-TZ: Debugging and optimization tools for edge systems.
- LynxSecure: Scalable, secure virtualization.
Khronos Standards
Why It Matters:
Khronos standards like Vulkan and OpenGL are essential for safety-critical graphics and compute in avionics, automotive, and industrial systems.
How We Support It:
Vulkan SC libraries ensure safety and high performance across industries.
Related Products & Services:
- VkCore SC: Vulkan SC libraries for safety-critical graphics.
- TrueCore: GPU monitoring tools for safety compliance.
ARINC 653
Why It Matters:
Support for ARINC 653 empowers avionics manufacturers to build robust, safety-critical systems through partitioning, fault isolation, and deterministic performance while meeting certification standards, reducing costs, and supporting multi-application deployment.
How We Support It:
Lynx supports ARINC 653 with real-time operating systems, providing partitioning, deterministic scheduling, and a certification-ready platform for aerospace and defense avionics.
Related Products & Services:
- LynxOS-178: supports ARINC 653 with partitioning, deterministic scheduling, and modular integration for secure, certifiable avionics.
POSIX and PSE54 Conformance
Why It Matters:
Supporting POSIX PSE54 ensures interoperability, portability, and standardization for aerospace and defense, reducing costs, accelerating certification, and enabling seamless integration with industry mandates.
How We Support It:
Lynx ensures POSIX PSE54 compliance in its real-time OS with a standardized API for portability, deterministic execution, secure partitioning, and multi-core support, simplifying integration and certification.
Related Products & Services:
- LynxSecure: The LynxSecure (LSK) separation kernel hypervisor supports POSIX-compliant guest OSes, enabling secure partitioning, real-time performance, and mixed-criticality systems.
- LynxElement: LynxElement integrates isolated, POSIX-compliant execution modules to enable flexible, reusable software architectures for aerospace and defense applications.
Other Industry Standards
What We Support:
- DO-178C/254: Safety-critical certification for avionics.
- ISO 26262: Ensuring safety in automotive systems.
- IEC 62443: Cybersecurity compliance for industrial systems.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Defense and critical infrastructure standards.
How We Support It:
Vigiles supports SBOM generation and compliance with global mandates like EO 14028 and EU CRA. LynxSecure ensures adherence to multi-standard requirements.
Related Products & Services:
- Lynx Vigiles: Real-time SBOM management and vulnerability mitigation.
- LYNX MOSA.ic.SCA: Tools for managing compliance requirements.
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