
A Time & Space Partitioned DO-178B Level A Certifiable Family
of RTOS Products
The Deos™ family of embedded RTOSs are field proven, time & space partitioned DO-178 Level A certifiable RTOSs, boasting more aircraft certifications than all other COTS RTOSs.
Deos™ is a proven, full featured DO-178B Level A certifiable real-time operating system (RTOS) which addresses the issues of high robustness and formal certifiability for avionics and safety critical applications. Built from the ground up with these goals in mind, Deos is the only certifiable time and space partitioned COTS RTOS that has been created using RTCA DO-178B, Level A processes from the very first day of its product development. Deos offers several unique fundamental and patented architectural advantages over all other competing RTOS's. The result is that Deos offers the best performance, lowest risk, easiest to certify, and lowest cost time & space partitioned COTS RTOS for airborne avionics and safety critical applications on the market today.
Deos 653p4™ adds the ARINC 653 Part 4 execution model and APEX interfaces to Deos. Focused at avionics Line Replaceable Unit manufacturers that require both the high performance features of Deos plus the standards conformance of ARINC Specification 653, Deos 653p4 offers the best of both worlds. Its unique hybrid design offering both rate monotonic scheduling with its patented slack scheduling, overlaid with the rigid time partitioned scheduling of ARINC 653 allowing users to harvest allocated but unused and unallocated execution time to deliver the highest possible performance from their system designs.
Deos 653p4-Solo™ includes only the ARINC Specification 653 Part 4 interfaces at an exceptional value for small to medium complexity avionics LRU’s that can benefit from standards conformance and the associated code portability.
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In addition to the typical RTOS services for memory management and synchronization, Deos has excellent support for hard-deadline deterministic periodic execution. Additionally, Deos provides highly efficient, deterministic inter-process/inter-processor, periodic & aperiodic communication mechanisms which enable the designer to isolate applications from changes in I/O format and bus hardware/source.
It is common for resource contention conflicts, in otherwise well tested software, to manifest during integration. These errors can be difficult to locate because interactions are complex and rarely understood by any one individual. The Deos Integration Tool makes obvious, during development and design, an application's resources needs, this prevents contention while providing early warning of physical resource depletion. An application's memory, I/O, interrupt and processing time needs are defined early in the life cycle and follow it throughout development, testing & verification; thus reducing the time and cost of integration.
The cost to re-certify previously approved software is a function of the amount of change. Changing just a single module and then re-compiling / re-linking the whole system results in an entirely new executable. Deos solves this problem by supporting run-time linkable libraries and executables (i.e., it is a DO-178B Level-A Link/Loader). Consequently a change to one module within an executable impacts only that executable. The executables for the rest of the system, and even the run-time linkable libraries used by the application remain unchanged. This isolation of change impact results in a reduced re-certification cost thereby making it easier to embrace change and incrementally improve your product offerings.
Of course, Deos comes with all the software development and debugging tools you've come to expect: IDE, Debugger, run-time system monitor/profiler, as well as integrated emulator support. Additionally, Deos provides integration and configuration tools which enable the designer to factor out what would otherwise be hard-coded constraints. This factoring ability not only speeds development, but also aids in verifying the correctness of the implementation, aided by Deos provided qualified verification tools.
DO-178B indicates that, when using modern compilers for Level-A software, structural coverage "...should be performed on the object code" (6.4.4.2.b). Deos provides a structural coverage tool capable of gathering structural coverage data on the executable object code in compliance with the Level-A requirement. This eliminates the need for an expensive source to object code traceability analysis.
Decompose your applications into executables and run-time linkable libraries in order to isolate change impact. Both startup and runtime shared library loading is supported enabling maximum flexibility, configurability, and Just-In-Time function binding. Also save valuable platform memory space and ensure all your applications are using the same latest and verified library.
The Deos 653p4 and Deos653p4-Solo products add support for the ARINC Specification 653 Part 4, scheduling model and APplication/EXecutive (APEX) interfaces to allow improved portability of avionics software from other sources that have been written to conform to that popular specification.