TECH BRIEF How do we help designers face System

Mission Computer challenges today? March 2019

There are multiple challenges that Systems time to market and technology lifecycle. Add safety
Mission Computer designers are facing today. critical certification requirements to all of the above
Their ultimate target is to design more powerful and it translates into an expectation of a high total
and complex deterministic systems, embedding cost of ownership for the complete system.
a high amount of modern computing in a size,
weight, and power-constrained (SWaP) space. This technical brief highlights how the rapid
These systems must be managed by powerful insertion of emerging technologies and standards
safety critical Real Time Operating Systems capable is achievable in a cost-effective way into
of displaying high resolution graphics, and come Systems Mission Computing products, thanks to
with requirements such as reduced solution size complementary hardware and software solutions
and power consumption, qualification for High serving the Aerospace & Defense industry
Reliability environments, and also a reasonable and beyond.

QORMINO®, TELEDYNE e2v’S COMMON COMPUTER PLATFORM

Qormino® is one of Qormino is a unique opportunity to combine a

the key pillars, highly high performance processing platform, with DDR4
recognized on the memory, without the risks associated with designing
market, easing the a high-speed memory interface from scratch. This
development of such systems. QT1040-4GB leads to a reduced development time, and enables
Common Computer Platform from Teledyne e2v Systems Mission Computer project teams to meet
features the following: challenging project timescales and provide capable
• NXP T1040 Quad PowerArchitecture® e5500 hardware to customers sooner.
core, at 1.4GHz.
• 4GB of DDR4 memory.
• Custom Teledyne e2v substrate, with 64 bits
memory bus and 8 bits ECC (Error Correction
Code).

Teledyne e2v’s long term support commitment also

removes obsolesce management effort, therefore
reducing risk and cost to any associated program.

Qormino has been designed to respond to SWaP

(Size, Weight and Power) constraints and also offers:
• High performance packed into a small substrate. For further information, please contact:
• Reduced system design time, improved time- Thomas Guillemain,
to-market. Marketing & Business Development,
• 15+ years availability for obsolescence management. Data Processing Solutions.
Thomas.GUILLEMAIN@teledyne-e2v.com

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Mission Computer challenges today? March 2019

COREAVI SAFETY CRITICAL GRAPHICS AND TEMPERATURE-SCREENED E8860 GPU

CoreAVI has pioneered the use of DO-178C/ED- and virtualized graphics subsystems, the driver
12C certifiable OpenGL®-based graphics drivers enables the best performance capabilities of
in the military and aerospace industries and has lower and higher powered graphics processors
supplied temperature-screened GPUs to a wide and achieve the highest levels of safety critical
range of embedded commercial and military certifications, including DO-178C / ED-12C.
avionics platforms. A global leader in architecting
and supplying real-time and safety critical graphics, ArgusCore SC is an industry proven solution that
compute, and video drivers, and “program ready” has successfully achieved rigorous avionics FAA/
embedded graphics processors, CoreAVI’s suite of EASA certifications and is currently deployed in
products enables the design and implementation civil, commercial and defense aircraft display
of complete safety critical embedded solutions that systems worldwide. Today, ArgusCore SC has been
achieve the highest levels of safety certification with certified by EASA and the FAA for flight safety and
long-term support. has been deployed into a wide range of avionics
display systems, such as primary flight displays,
multifunctional mission computers, UAV ground
control stations, and synthetic vision enhancement
systems.

Temperature-screened GPU: AMD’s Embedded

Radeon™ E8860

CoreAVI supplies temperature-screened GPU’s

from AMD’s family of Embedded Radeon GPUs.
The E8860 GPU delivers advanced power,
performance, and efficiency, and by providing
integrated memory enables integrators to create
smaller, SWaP-optimized systems than were
possible in the previous generation of technology.
The E8860 is tested for an extended temperature
ArgusCore SC1™ range, enabling its use in a wide variety of rugged,
embedded applications. CoreAVI offers a long term
CoreAVI’s ArgusCore SC1 safety critical OpenGL supply program to extend the availability of our
scalable graphics driver is a superset of Khronos’ supported GPUs past the Last Time Buy date set by
OpenGL SC 1.0.1 API specification and is the manufacturer, allowing the integrator access to
implemented to support a fixed function graphics their chosen technology well into the future.
rendering pipeline. Designed to enhance multicore

For further information, please contact:

Mary Beth Barrans,
Director of Marketing, Core Avionics & Industrial Inc.
marybeth.barrans@coreavi.com

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Mission Computer challenges today? March 2019

WIND RIVER VXWORKS® SAFE AND SECURE RTOS PLATFORM

VxWorks® is the world’s most widely deployed real- Wind River Workbench provides an Eclipse-based
time operating system (RTOS), and powers more development suite for development of embedded
than 2 billion intelligent devices. It delivers unrivaled applications, and provides best-in-class capabilities
deterministic performance and sets the standard for for both platform developers and application
a scalable, future-proof, safe, and secure operating developers throughout the software development
environment which aerospace and defense lifecycle, including multi-core development,
companies have relied for over 35 years for their debugging and visualization capabilities.
mission-critical and safety-critical systems.
Wind River has a proven track record in avionics
VxWorks provides deterministic hard real-time safety certification for more than twenty years,
performance even under system load, enabling with VxWorks having successfully achieved DO-
applications to utilize the full performance 178C DAL A / ED-12C DAL A certification on
capabilities of the mission computer platform. multiple processor architectures on civil and
VxWorks is also scalable and highly configurable, military programmes through multiple certification
enabling mission systems designers to fully benefit agencies. This makes selecting VxWorks the low risk
from the multi-core processing capabilities of option for new safety certification projects.
the Qormino quad core architecture, and also
to configure the software footprint to match the VxWorks is backed by more than 30 years of
available resources of the underlying platform in embedded technology experience, a world-class
SWaP-constrained environments. VxWorks also support organization, a comprehensive partner
provides extensive security capabilities to enable ecosystem including Teledyne e2v and CoreAvi,
mission computing platform designers to safeguard and a global professional services team with a
their platforms, connections, data and intellectual specialized Aerospace & Defense practice.
property against threats.

For further information, please contact:

Alex Wilson,
Director - EMEA, APAC & Japan A&D Market
alex.wilson@windriver.com

LEARN MORE:

PRODUCTS: WHITE PAPERS:

• Qormino Common Computer Platforms • Affordability by Design for Aerospace & Defense
• QT1040-4GB Datasheet Systems
• VxWorks RTOS
• Wind River in Aerospace & Defense WEBINARS:
• Wind River Professional Services • Qormino Webinar

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