DII COE and DII COE RT: The Defense Information Initiative Common Operating Environment Real-time embedded military applications for the DoD
"The DII COE is not a system; it is a foundation for building a shared system."
The DII COE was developed in late 1993 to increase portability, interoperability and reusability in the USA's Department of Defense systems. The DII COE is a software infrastructure that defines a set of guidelines and standards. The DII COE is not hardware-based.
The DII COE was conceived to provide an application-independent, standards-based software platform which could support a wide range of command and control mission applications. Eight possible degrees of COE compliance were identified and the software platform was divided into three distinct layers:
- the kernel (operating system and extensions, common desktop, software install tools, security extensions)
- the infrastructure services (data exchange) layer (RDBMS servers/clients, network management, communications, PC services)
- common support applications (MCG&I, messaging, office automation, correlation/fusion, alerts)
LynxOS and the real-time DII COE effort:
In 1996 and 1997, initial studies were undertaken with regards to extending the DII COE to real-time applications, which became known as DII COE RT.
As the DII COE RT effort progressed, LynxOS® was selected as the reference RTOS implementation for the DII COE configurable RT kernel.
LynxOS was chosen because it could provide the real-time scheduling and predictable performance required by the DII COE RT. Furthermore, any real-time operating system considered for DII COE is assessed for its ability to provide key functional units associated with real-time profiles in the POSIX®.13 standard.
As a result, LynxOS has been used for years as a COTS real-time operating system inside mission-critical applications world-wide.
- Evaluation Version
- Take the LynxOS RTOS Tour
- Request Product Updates
- LynxOS-178 RTOS for Software Certification
- LynxOS-SE RTOS
- RTOS Board Support (BSP)
- Hardware Support Guide
- RTOS TCP Request- Response Tests
- Communication Protocols and RFCs
- Order the LynxOS RTOS
- Developer Tools for LynxOS RTOS
- POSIX Conformance
- RTOS Device Drivers
- GNU Tool Chain
- JumpStart for Communications
- High Availability System
- LynxOS User Documents
- LynxOS Product Support
- Training on Real-time Systems
- White Papers
- Migrating from HP-RT
- Migrating from VxWorks
- Third-party Partner Products
- LynxOS 4.x Developer Pack
- MSRP-based Pricing Program
- Embedded Success Stories
- Comp.OS.Lynx Newsgroup
Virtualization / RTOS News
- Using a Separation Kernel to add Military-Grade Security to Legacy Systems -8/10
- LynuxWorks VP of Marketing Speaks with TMC CEO Rich Tehrani -8/10
- LynuxWorks Addresses Safety Requirements for NextGen UAVs at AUVSI 2010 -8/3
- ARM Processor Support for LynxOS-SE RTOS Builds Secure Mobile Applications -7/13
- Keeping Embedded Software safe and Secure in an Unsafe World -6/10
- Embedded Systems Conference, Boston, MA, USA, Sep 21-22
- Introduction to BlueCat Embedded Linux, Oct 11-13
- Embedded Conference Scandinavia 2010, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 19-20
"The key thing for us was on-site support during the design and debugging phase. We relied on LynuxWorks
for its product, open development environment and professional services."
- Rick Morris, Vice president of Engineering, Jetstream.
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