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Virginia Beach, VA – May 20, 2025. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission- and safety-critical applications, today announced that it will exhibit at the Vertical Flight Society’s Forum 81, The Future of Vertical Flight. The summit runs from May 20-22 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in Virginia Beach, VA. For more information, please visit https://vtol.org/annual-forum/forum-81.
DDC-I will demonstrate its Deos™ safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS), which utilizes the latest DO-178C Design Assurance Level A (DAL A) multi-core verified baseline. DDC-I will also demonstrate a fully integrated avionics display system featuring Deos. The demo was created using the Ansys SCADE display design and development environment, which runs on an NXP i.MX8qm processor with an integrated Vivante GC7000 GPU. Utilizing CoreAVI VkCoreGL® SC driver and libraries, the demo creates graphical instruments and groups data from multiple systems onto a single display.
The Vertical Flight Society’s 81st Annual Forum & Technology Display is the world’s leading international technical event on vertical flight technology. The conference will span three days and include 300+ technical papers on every discipline from acoustics to test & evaluation, as well as invited presentations and discussions by leaders in the military, government agencies and industry.
The Technology Display, running concurrently with the Forum, is the most extensive exposition of cutting-edge vertical flight technologies in the world and includes other technologies more broadly applicable to aerospace in general. Leading manufacturers, service providers, defense agencies, universities, and research and development organizations will showcase the very latest in vertical flight technology in the exhibit hall.
“We’re excited to be part of Forum 81and look forward to demonstrating our world class, safety-critical RTOS platform and advanced display capabilities to the vertical flight community,” said Gary Gilliland, vice president of marketing at DDC-I. “Deos has flown for millions of hours aboard commercial air transport, business jet, military aircraft and helicopters, and provides a best-in-class platform for rapid development, certification, and deployment of safety-critical software for vertical flight systems requiring advanced display capability.”
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 systems 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/pr2508.
