[svlug] [svlug-announce] SVLUG May 4rd meeting: Chip Downing on Using Linux in Safety-Critical and Mission-Critical Systems: Lunacy or Reality?

[Rick Moen]

WHEN:

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
7pm-8:30pm


MAIN PRESENTATION

TOPIC:  Using Linux in Safety-Critical and Mission-Critical Systems:
Lunacy or Reality? 


PRESENTED BY: Chip Downing,
Senior Director of Aerospace and Defense, Wind River Systems

TOPIC SUMMARY:
To use more complex software environments, including Linux, in
multi-level safety-critical environments is now being enabled by DO-178C
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178C) certification-ready multi-core
hypervisors. This discussion will focus on the ever-increasing use of
more-heavyweight OS and application environments on modern multi-core
silicon.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:  
Chip Downing heads the aerospace division at Wind River's corporate
office in Alameda, and drove the ARINC 653
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARINC_653) industry standard into
aerospace with VxWorks 653
(https://www.windriver.com/products/product-overviews/vxworks-653-product-overview/),
now standard in the commercial and military aerospace market. He's Chair
of the joint industry/government Future Airborne Capabilities
Environment
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Airborne_Capability_Environment)
(FACE) consortium's Business Working Group Outreach Committee, building
integrated modular avionics (IMA) design and deployment efficiencies
into next generation open avionics, based on ARINC 653, POSIX, and
Linux. A 20-year veteran of embedded computing and pioneer in safety
certification for commercial RTOSes, Chip was previously VP of SCADE
Global Sales at Esterel Technologies
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esterel_Technologies), and led sales,
marketing, and consulting groups at Validated Software, OnCore Systems,
Mentor Graphics, Qualix Group, Ready Systems, and CENCO, producing
DO-178 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-178B) and other high
reliability solutions.

LOCATION:

 Cavium cafeteria
 2315 N 1st St. (corner of Charcut Ave.)
 north San Jose

 Directions on how to get there are listed at:
 http://www.svlug.org/directions/cavium.php    <--- maps here!

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POST-MEETING GATHERING:

La Victoria Taqueria, 1415 N 4th St. near Gish Road, San Jose.
Go south 0.7 miles on N. 1st St. under US-101, then turn half-left
onto Matrix Blvd., in 0.3 miles a slight right onto N. 4th Street,
0.5 miles to La Victoria on your right just before Gish Road.


We look forward to seeing you there!



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