Follow us on Twitter
ICI's Improved Data Modem (IDM) U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force real-time communications
ICI's IDM (improved data modem) is a communications and targeting system that can interface between the different communications formats in use by the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. A real-time operating system resides inside the IDM. Future plans called for incorporating in the IDM an embedded subset of the Army's Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2) system software.
Historically, FBCB2 software ran on the Solaris™ operating system, while VxWorks® was being used in the IDM. After three years of unsuccessful attempts to port the FBCB2 software to VxWorks, the original project team cut its losses and turned to the LynxOS® real-time operating system.
In six months, the port to LynxOS succeeded.
A few embedded-system platforms that defense and aerospace developers are using with LynuxWorks operating systems:
- AMCC 460EX
- Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-183
- Curtiss-Wright SVME/DMV-184
- Emerson MVME7100
- Extreme Engineering XPedite6032
- Freescale HPCN Evaluation and Development Platform
- GE PPC7D
- Kontron PENTXM2
- Kontron VM6250
- Kontron VMPC6a (single processor)
- Kontron VMPC6c (single processor)
- Kontron VMPC6d (single processor)
Virtualization / RTOS News
Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Sensors Division Selects LynuxWorks LynxOS RTOS for UK AWACS -1/25- Selecting a Partitioning OS for a Radiation Therapy System -1/12
- Building on 2011—the year that Secure Computing came of age -12/14
- Video: Secure Partitioning LynxSecure from LynuxWorks -11/11
- Video: Cloud Computing with LynxSecure from LynuxWorks -11/11
- Secure data Storage Helps Deliver Mission-Critical Information to Defense and Aerospace Personnel -11/28
EVENTS
- Embedded World 2012, Nuremberg, Germany, Feb 28-Mar 1
- Device-Driver and Real-Time Programming for the LynxOS RTOS Family, San José, CA, USA, Feb 27-Mar 2
- RSA Conference USA, San Francisco, CA, USA, Feb 27-Mar 2
