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Internet of Things

Internet of Things

Wind River brings safety-critical expertise to functional safety for industrial IoT

Via Wind River News

Dec 7, 2016

December 7, 2016

By Chip Downing

With the accelerating growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is increasingly important to identify and implement safety-related systems for smart grids, connected vehicles, robotics, industrial control systems, smart factories, and more. And when it comes to ensuring the reliability of these can’t-fail systems, Wind River has a proven track record of success across critical infrastructure sectors. This expertise includes the area of functional safety, with Wind River having a comprehensive portfolio of software products that enables the development of functional safety solutions.

Functional Safety is technically defined as ’the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on the system or equipment operating correctly in response to its inputs, including the safe management of likely operator errors, hardware failures and environmental changes’. Got that? It’s a lot of words, but what it all boils down to is, ‘It’s all about saving human lives!’

industrial robot image (2)

Today, Intel has launched a functional safety processor designed for use in safety-critical systems – the Intel Xeon processor D-1529 industrial IEC 61508 certification solution. Unlike traditional small processors that serve the safety-critical industry, this processor is fundamentally different – it is an enterprise-class Intel Xeon processor packaged in a Broadwell DE core with hardware virtualization assist supporting simultaneous multiple guest operating system (OS) environments, like VxWorks and Wind River Linux, on a single compute platform.

This product removes significant risk from future safety programs using this solution. Designed for industrial safety certification, Intel has already received a TÜV IEC 61508 SIL 2 certification for this platform immediately enabling this processor to be used in industrial safety-critical platforms such as robotics, autonomous systems, and industrial controls.

Wind River software complements the Intel Xeon processor D-1529 solution with a comprehensive portfolio of products enabling the development of safe, secure, and reliable functional safety solutions including the following:

  • VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) is available today for the Intel Xeon processor D-1529 with an off-the-shelf board support package (BSP) for the Intel customer reference board. Additionally, the VxWorks suite provides the availability of both security and safety products delivering a broad set of features to efficiently and effectively protect devices, data, and intellectual property, and advanced time and space partitioning capabilities – essential for industrial functional safety devices.

  • Wind River Linux, a Yocto Project compatible Linux distribution, offers additional capabilities such as security enhancements, virtualization, and carrier grade features together with risk assurance and cost savings. A Linux support package also exists for the Intel customer reference board for the Intel Xeon processor D-1529.

  • The Wind River Simics model of the Intel Xeon processor D-1529 enables a shorter path to certification through improved test efficiency and pre-silicon availability, enabling a faster time to market. The Intel certification team used this Simics model to accelerate their time to certification and increase the quality of their tests.

2017 should be a very good year for safety engineers. Advanced COTS hardware and software from two leading suppliers deliver a differentiated and compelling Industrial IoT functional safety offering for building next-generation safety-critical systems — and really unlocks the power of Intel and Wind River.

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