Military Embedded Systems

Unmanned - Payloads

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Autonomous engine systems for helicopters depend on standards-based controls

November 26, 2024

More complex combat-helicopter engines require large increases in diagnostic/prognostic capability, which also require a greater number of sensor inputs to the electronic engine controls (EECs.) At the same time, military helicopters face the increased need for resilient cybersecurity. Together, these trends drive the need for multicore processors in the EECs, despite the challenge of ensuring real-time determinism when different processor cores compete for the same shared resources. The foundation for a solution to both challenges is a certified, hardened real-time operating system (RTOS) with multicore interference mitigation. Multicore interference mitigation enforces real-time determinism even when multiple processor cores are vying for access to the same processor resources.