DDC-I Booth #733

Novi, MI – August 6, 2025. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, today announced that it will demonstrate the integration of Klepsydra’s artificial intelligence and edge processing capabilities with DDC-I’s Deos™ safety-critical DO-178C real-time operating system at the 17^th Annual Ground Vehicle Systems Engineering & Technology Symposium (GVSETS) & Modernization Update. The show will be held August 12-14 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, MI.

“The integration of Klepsydra and Deos provides secure, high-performance AI inference for ground vehicles,” said Gary Gilliland, vice president of marketing at DDC-I. “Now, developers requiring advanced AI, edge processing, cybersecurity, and sensor fusion capabilities have a modular, lightweight, reusable platform with secure partitioning that can be readily certified, and upgraded with the latest technology for the most demanding mission-critical applications.”

DDC-I will provide two demos at the show. The first, utilizing the Klepsydra AI engine and Deos RTOS running on an NXP i.MX8 QuadMax platform, shows how AI networks can be used to analyze image streams from a single 2-D camera and provide depth/distance information as well as obstacle detection.

The second demo features a Deos-hosted avionics display, which runs on an NXP i.MX8qm processor with an integrated Vivante GC7000 GPU. The demo focuses on creating graphical instruments as well as grouping data from various systems on one display. It was created using the Ansys SCADE Display design and development environment.  

The 17^th annual GVSETS & Modernization Update is sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) Michigan Chapter, in coordination with The Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD). The NDIA is dedicated to enhancing warfighter capabilities, providing an opportunity for the ground systems community to network and share technical research and innovations while discussing capability gaps and modernization needs.

Technical sessions will cover autonomy, artificial intelligence, and robotics, digital/systems engineering, modeling, simulation, prototyping, validation, Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) architecture, contested logistics, power, and mobility. For more information, see the show website https://www.ndia-mich.org/events/gvsets.

Klepsydra AI is a cutting-edge software framework for edge AI applications. Delivering high-efficiency AI inference, Klepsydra AI employs a lightweight, safety-certified, cybersecurity-protected AI software stack that is compliant with ECSS software standards and compatible with standard AI frameworks such as PyTorch and SensorFlow. Klepsydra’s acceleration technology combines two-dimensional parallelization with lock-free programming to deliver a flexible and efficient inference engine, achieving up to four times lower latency, ten times higher throughput, and 50% reduced power consumption than competitive solutions.

Deos is a safety-critical embedded RTOS that employs patented cache partitioning, memory pools, and safe scheduling to deliver higher CPU utilization than any other certifiable safety-critical COTS RTOS on multi-core processors. First certified to DO-178 DAL A in 1998, Deos provides FACE® Conformant OSS Safety Base and Safety Extended Profiles that feature hard real-time response, time, and space partitioning, with support for Rate Monotonic, ARINC-653 and POSIX interfaces.

SafeMC™ technology extends Deos’ advanced capabilities to multiple cores, enabling developers of safety-critical systems to achieve best in class multi-core performance without compromising safety-critical task response and guaranteed execution time. SafeMC employs a bounded multiprocessing (BMP) extension of the symmetric multiprocessing architecture (SMP), safe scheduling, and cache partitioning to minimize cross-core contention and interference patterns that affect the performance, safety criticality and certifiability of multi-core systems. These features enable avionics developers to address issues specified by AC/AMC 20-193 multi-core objectives that could impact the safety, performance, and integrity of a software airborne system.

About DDC-I, Inc.

DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of real-time operating systems, software development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software system modernization solutions, with a primary focus on mission- and safety-critical applications. DDC-I’s customer base is an impressive “who’s who” in the commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. DDC-I offers safety-critical real-time operating systems, compilers, integrated development environments and run-time systems for C, C++, and Ada application development. For more information regarding DDC-I products, contact DDC-I at 4545 E. Shea Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85028; phone (602) 275-7172; fax (602) 252-6054; e-mail sales@ddci.com or visit http://www.ddci.com/pr2512.