BOOTH #I4
Warren, MI – April 7, 2025. DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for mission and safety-critical applications, today announced that it will demonstrate its DO-178C, FACE-compatible, safety-critical, multi-core real-time operating system (RTOS) in Booth #I4 at the Michigan Defense Expo. MDEX will be held April 8-10 at the Macomb Sports and Expo Center in Warren, Michigan.
DDC-I will demonstrate a fully integrated avionics display system featuring the Deos™ safety-critical real-time operating system (RTOS), which utilizes the latest DO-178C Design Assurance Level A (DAL A) multi-core verified baseline. 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. Featuring the CoreAVI VkCoreGL® SC driver and libraries, the demo creates graphical instruments and groups data from multiple systems onto a single display.
“Michigan’s Defense Corridor is responsible for 75 percent of America’s ground combat systems, is home to more than 6,000 defense contractors, and hosts critical military assets such as the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) and the U.S. Army Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC), both in Warren,” said Gary Gilliland, vice president of marketing at DDC-I. “We look forward to sharing our best-in class, safety-critical RTOS technology with the defense community at MDEX.”
Sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association Michigan Chapter, MDEX is the premier event for fostering connections between Department of Defense (DoD) leaders, prime contractors, and small businesses from across the country. MDEX highlights Michigan’s role as a cornerstone of America’s defense industrial base, showcasing cutting-edge innovation and national security advancements in one of the most strategically significant manufacturing corridors in the United States.
About Deos
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/pr2505.
