Aonix®, a provider of complete solutions for
safety- and mission-critical applications, announced today that Aonix
had been chosen to participate in DIANA, a (Distributed equipment Independent
environment for Advanced avioNic Applications).
DIANA, funded by the European Community at $4.26M, is chartered to
modernize the tools and execution environments used in hard real-time
and safety-certifiable avionics systems in order to reduce the
development and ongoing operational costs of aircraft. Aonix will
provide PERC Pico technology and virtual machine standards experience to
support the DIANA initiative.
Aimed at keeping Europe’s competitive edge in
air transportation, DIANA will implement an integrated modular
electronics platform that will reduce aircraft development and operating
costs, enable faster upgrade and replacement of avionics applications,
and reduce onboard weight through better use of computational resources.
DIANA will develop architecture, methodologies and concepts that enable
the avionics supply chain to deliver enhanced functionality in a
significantly smaller time frame.
“DIANA is an important project for the
European Community,” said Laurent Mares, Aonix
vice president of sales Europe. “Due to the
intense scrutiny and certification cycles applied to avionics systems,
the cost of bringing new airframes to market is staggering. Modernizing
methodologies, languages and execution environments in a standard way
will improve time to market and dramatically reduce development cost for
some of the most expensive systems being built today.”
The project will bring some of the most influential and useful
technologies together with existing or emerging standards relevant to
avionics development and deployment. Under the umbrella of AIDA
(Architecture for Independent Distributed Avionics), DIANA will define
and promote common development and certification processes and
strategies. Object-oriented technologies such as Java, and standards
such as ARINC 653 multipartitioned operating environment specification
for avionics; Real Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) and its subset
JSR-302, the Java solution for safety-critical applications; Object
Management Group’s Common Object Request
Broker (CORBA) for middleware and the Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
are all being considered as guidance for the project.
Aonix’s PERC Pico will provide the
underpinning executional foundation for DIANA. The PERC Pico product
implements key concepts of the evolving JSR-302 standard. PERC Pico
delivers the portability and scalability benefits of Java to developers
of low-level software components which have demanding performance,
memory footprint, response time, and determinism requirements. As such,
PERC Pico is ideal for many hard real-time and safety-critical
development projects. Compared with traditional Java technologies, PERC
Pico has a much smaller and simpler run-time environment, making it
possible to economically develop the safety certification artifacts
required by government auditors of applications such as commercial
avionics, nuclear power generation, passenger rail, and medical
instrumentation.
Since early 2003, Aonix has worked closely with the Open Group, a
vendor-neutral industry consortium that supports the creation of
standards for integrated information and global interoperability, to
establish standards for the use of Java in the development of
safety-critical software systems. In July 2006, this work was
transitioned into the Java Community Process as Java Specification
Request (JSR) 302, and an expert group was formed to address the issues
of safety-critical development with Java. Aonix is a member of this
expert group. Work on JSR-302 is ongoing. Aonix intends to refine its
PERC Pico product to assure full compliance with the JSR-302 standard
once that standard becomes official.
In this effort, Aonix joins key players in the European and global
markets. Dassault Aviation, Alenia Aeronautica, and Embraer (all air
framers/system integrators), and Thales Avionics (provider and system
integrator of avionics applications), will participate in definition and
implementation activities together with Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, University of Karlsrhue, and the Dutch
National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR). Skysoft Portugal (a aeronautics,
Security, Space and Telematics technology and systems provider) is prime
contractor for DIANA, and alongside of Alenia SIA and Aonix will provide
the simulation development and all COTS tools to be used by project
participants.
Throughout specification and implementation stages, the DIANA team will
work with EUROCAE WG71 to the develop certification guidelines for the
new concepts adopted in AIDA like object-oriented programming, Java
programming, MDE, model transformation, etc.
About Aonix®
Aonix offers high productivity solutions for complex embedded
application development in industries as diverse as aerospace,
telecommunications, transportation and automotive, networking, defense,
industrial and business automation, and consumer electronics. Aonix
delivers the leading high-reliability, real-time embedded virtual
machine solution for running Java™
programs deployed today and has the largest number of certified Ada
applications at the highest level of criticality. Headquartered in San
Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates sales offices throughout
North America and Europe in addition to offering a network of
international distributors. For more information, visit www.aonix.com.
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