FACE-based tool for military avionics systems
ProductJuly 14, 2015
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) engineers released the company’s Transport Services Segment (TSS), a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) connectivity software based on the new Technical Standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. It enables avionics-software devel...
Real-Time Innovations (RTI) engineers released the company’s Transport Services Segment (TSS), a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) connectivity software based on the new Technical Standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. It enables avionics-software developers and platform integrators to assemble technologies with COTS components that have already passed safety-certification credentials.
RTI’s TSS technology is built on the Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard developed by the Object Management Group (OMG). This standard includes RTI Connext DDS Cert, which can be certifiable to DO-178C Design Assurance Level (DAL) A and can be used for resource-constrained applications. Additional features of RTI TSS include flexible communication due to the publish/subscribe paradigm, physical transport independence, and real-time Quality of Service (QoS). The system is also interoperable with non-FACE DDS applications, such as those that comply with the UAS Control Segment (UCS) architecture. The FACE TSS encompasses those APIs used for exchanging data between software components. To ease integration, the FACE standard also specifies that exchanged data must conform to a well-defined data model with unambiguous semantics. The RTI TSS includes a compiler that generates C++ data types and the TSS API from a FACE data model.
