With system consolidation and demands for more compute, regulations and functionality in today’s industrial systems, system designers are turning to more powerful processors targeted at functional safety, such as the new Intel® Xeon® processor D-1529 for industrial 61508 certification solution. When building this type of industrial device that requires proven functional safety, a robust software solution is needed to manage the multiple processor cores and software applications that are both non-safety and safety certified.

Wind River® Safety Profile for VxWorks® provides a proven safety subset of the VxWorks Real-Time Operating system, which can be used standalone for simple safety systems or virtualized to provide support for consolidated multi-level safety systems. Running on the new Intel Xeon processor D-1529, this virtualized solution results in a very flexible and powerful hardware/software solution for high-end functional safety applications, minimizing certification costs on system updates, as well as the ability to host safe and non-safe applications. For example, a security policy monitor or IoT communications could be updated without impacting the safety certification.