Wind River

STRENGTHENING THE BACKBONE OF CONNECTIVITY AT THE INTELLIGENT EDGE

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit, powered by Wind River technology, successfully landed on Mars at approximately 8:35 p.m. PT, January 3, 2004

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TECHNOLOGY

THE CRITICAL ENABLER AT THE INTELLIGENT EDGE

I like to think I anticipated the advancement of connectivity and digital transformation several decades ago – it would make me a visionary!

“But the fact of the matter is that when I started in the industry, connectivity was very simple and slow. I did envisage back then that speed and complexity would increase exponentially, but what I didn’t see coming was wireless becoming mainstream, the ability to connect with very little hardware, and the critical role the edge would play.”

Visionary or not, Michel Genard is better placed than most to discuss the hyperconnected era that we live

Wind River software has been ensuring can’t-fail systems remain operational for almost four decades, the company leading the way at the intelligent edge in a hyperconnected and autonomous era Writer: Tom Wadlow | Project Manager: Vivek Valmiki in today.

Last year surpassed the 20 billion mark in terms of the number of devices connected to the internet, with estimates suggesting that figure will rise to an extraordinary 300 billion

by as soon as 2030.

In monetary terms, the opportunity is also gargantuan. For instance, the global digital transformation market was valued at almost $262 billion in 2018 and is expected to breach $1 trillion by 2026, growing at an average rate of some 18 percent a year.

Within the vast world of connectivity, a fundamental and exponentially growing category is edge computing.

In 2017, the global value of this specialist market was measured at $1.73 billion, a figure which is forecast to rise to more than $28 billion by 2027, growing at an average rate of some 35 percent a year.

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WIND RIVER Genard is VP of Product for Wind River, a US-based global leader in delivering software for connected systems at the intelligent edge – an organisation which has been fully immersed in the above picture for the best part of 40 years. ​ “I started as an engineer and am an engineer by design,” he recalls. “What inspired me then was the desire to design and create. I am from a generation where electronics and software were starting to become mainstream, when the combination of hardware and software enabled you to do so many new things.

“What fascinated me in joining Wind River was discovering the almost invisible software that is critical to the functioning of systems which cannot fail.”

This, in short, is what positions Wind River so strongly in today’s ever-evolving connected world.

The company’s vast portfolio of software solutions is accelerating the digital transformation of critical infrastructure systems found across a tremendous variety of verticals, renowned for meeting the strictest standards in safety, security, performance and reliability.

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And while the nature and scale of connectivity has drastically changed over 40 years and led the firm to continually adapt and evolve, Wind River’s basic premise remains the same – to ensure customers’ mission critical devices and systems work.

“What makes Wind River unique is our relevance and opportunity at the intelligent edge,” says Genard, who set up the organisation’s first European office in the 1980s. “This means our technology plays an essential role from the device edge to the infrastructure edge, where you are going to have small footprint cloud deployment near the infrastructure – making sure all of those critical elements work.”

BRINGING 5G TO THE EDGE The 5G dynamic is, for Genard, something of a perfect storm for the company. Arguably the single greatest technology buzzword or trend of at least the last two years, 5G is beginning to transform the way we live, work and interact on a meaningful scale. In 2016 the global 5G infrastructure market was worth a little over half a billion dollars – by 2025 that figure is projected to reach almost $23 billion.

A gamechanger here, according to Genard, is network slicing.

“5G is not just another G, i.e. a super boosted bandwidth version of 3G and 4G,” he explains. “It was always going to be fast. Rather, the intriguing thing about 5G is the topology of the network, and the slicing of the 5G network that will allow portions of the network to be used for specific use cases.

“You can aggregate and divide different parts of the network and this creates a massive opportunity to really exploit the advantages of IoT, autonomous technology and a great many other things that may previously have been difficult to scale.

“5G is going to make all of this possible at a more affordable, accessible price, and Wind River can bring the reliability required to successfully scale 5G networks.”

Airbiquity® Airbiquity® and Wind River® are collaborating to integrate key technologies for the development of an end-to-end software lifecycle management solution for connected and autonomous vehicles, spanning vehicle to cloud. The solution enables secure and intelligent over-the-air (OTA) software updates and data management.

Proper and proactive management of software over the course of a vehicle’s lifecycle is becoming increasingly important to enhance performance, maintain value, and address safety and security threats. Using OTA, automotive OEMs can securely transmit diagnostic and operational data and efficiently deploy software updates to mitigate recall expenses and enable new vehicle features.

Together, Wind River and Airbiquity provide the automotive industry an open and flexible OTA solution combining market-leading software technology components to create a comprehensive, interoperable, pre-validated OTA solution backed by the expertise of two industry-leading software technology companies.

• Wind River is contributing Edge Sync, a highly modular OTA update and software lifecycle management solution • Airbiquity is contributing OTAmatic®, a cloud-based OTA service including OTA orchestration, campaign management, software and data management, and Uptane-based security framework capabilities An integrated solution combining Wind River Edge Sync and Airbiquity OTAmatic also has applicability to multiple nonautomotive IoT sectors, such as medical, industrial, aerospace, military, and telecommunications.

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WIND RIVER

AN INTRODUCTION TO WIND RIVER Wind River is a global leader in delivering software for the intelligent edge. The company is helping the world’s technology leaders power generation after generation of the safest, most secure devices in the world.

The company’s software is accelerating the evolution from automated to autonomous and leading the 5G revolution across a diverse range of use cases – from collaborative robots to commercial and military drones, connected cars to the connected factory floor – as well as the intelligent communication networks that support these applications.

Manufacturers, governments, system integrators and other enterprises are all part of Wind River’s customer base, which covers, among others, the following verticals: AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE: Airbus Group, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell AUTOMOTIVE: BMW, Fiat, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Johnson Controls, Valeo Group INDUSTRIAL: ABB, KUKA, Mitsubishi, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Toshiba MEDICAL: GE Healthcare, Olympus, Stryker, Varian NETWORKING: ARRIS, Avaya, Ciena, Ericsson, Tellabs

Teledyne e2v Due to the nature of Teledyne e2v’s computer intensive high reliability microprocessor solutions, of Teledyne e2v’s customers and markets, the cooperation with WindRiver is natural and brings a significant value to our mutual aerospace, space and military customers.

During the mid 2010’s, Teledyne e2v introduced a very compact common computer platform solution, integrating a PowerArchitecture® or ARM® quad core microprocessor with 4GB of DDR4 RAM. This product line up, Qormino®, brings both an easiness of integration for system designers, and multiple SWaP benefits (size, weight and power).

In particular, Teledyne e2v, WindRiver and CoreAVI have written a joint technical brief highlighting how they help designers to face system mission computer challenges. A joint article highlighting our strong collaboration on BAE Systems’ mission computer was also published in 2019.

To manufacture this complex common computer platform product, Teledyne e2v draws on 35 successful years delivering generations of high reliability microprocessors to worldwide avionics, space and defence customers including Airbus, Boeing, NASA, ESA. Those microprocessors always include the following: • Extended temperature range: -55 to 125 degrees Celcius.

• Qualifications of both lead-free (RoHS) and leaded (SnPb) solder ball product variants.

• Long term supply/lifetime extension (15+ years).

• Product warranty for high reliability domains.

Teledyne e2v is certified aerospace certification as per AS / EN / JIS Q 9100 (Grenoble, France).

For more details, please refer to TBD.

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NOTHING FLIES WITHOUT TELEDYNE e2v’S HIGH RELIABILITY MICROPROCESSORS Teledyne e2v High Reliability Microprocessor division is serving all worldwide Aerospace, Space & Defense customers since more than 35 years. Our records of accomplishment include working with renowned customers such as Airbus, Boeing and more generally most of the worldwide Avionics systems manufacturers, as well as key players in the Military and Defense industry. We are working as well with major Space customers, and have close cooperation with CNES, ESA & NASA. The key success factors of Teledyne e2v’s High Reliability Microprocessors are: 1. Access to the same tests programs, test equipments & methodology than original manufacturer 2. Reliable characterization & qualification of Microprocessors in High Reliability domains (-55/125C), offering both RoHS & Lead ball finishing variants 3. Obsolescence management (15 years and beyond) after product End Of Life Teledyne e2v’s Hi Rel qualification: www. teledyne-e2v.com/content/uploads/2019/11/ Teledyne-e2v-Hi-Reliability-DifferentiatorsTech-Brief-V4.pdf

of kunits of those microprocessors in Aerospace & Defense market, per year.

Product Portfolio: www.teledyne-e2v.com/ products/semiconductors/processors/ High Reliability Microprocessor Power Consumption reduction Beyond this very comprehensive portfolio capable to serve a wide range of projects, customers, and timelines, Teledyne e2v has also developed a methodology to reduce the power consumption on customers’ applications. Our Aerospace & Defense customers are indeed facing more and more power budget constraints, often linked with Safety Critical requirements.

Many parts of Avionics systems may be specifically designed to meet stringent requirements and withstand tough environments and extreme temperature conditions. But this comes in parallel of embedding always more processing capabilities, for one of the following reasons: • Ability for the system to be future proof, i.e. still capable to work with the same expected behavior in 1, 5 or 10 years, • Have extra margin for greedy applications, i.e. avoid a system freeze when newer applications are introduced, • In addition, for marketing purposes…bigger is always better!

Teledyne e2v presents all the steps followed to reduce by 45% the power consumption of a Power Architecture based T1042 Microprocessor, on the customer application.

Power Optimization Technical Brief : www. teledyne-e2v.com/content/uploads/2019/10/ Power-consumption-White-Paper.pdf Qormino® : Very compact High Reliability Common Computer Platforms

Teledyne e2v High Reliability Microprocessors Portfolio Teledyne e2v’s portfolio includes several technologies, from older 1990’s Freescale (formerly Motorola, now NXP) PowerQUICC® architectures built around one or more PowerPC cores and the Communications Processor Module (QUICC Engine) specialized in such tasks such as I/O, communications, ATM, security acceleration, networking and USB. PowerQUICC architecture is still widely used in Avionics systems, and Teledyne e2v is also fully supporting evolutionary technologies, such as 2000’s based QorIQ® Power Architecture®, as well as the 2010’s QorIQ ARM® based Layerscape® ones. Teledyne e2v has been introducing more than 45 different High Reliability microprocessor products during the last 20 years, and is delivering tens to hundreds

In the mid 2010’s, Teledyne e2v has introduced a dedicated family of very compact Processing & Memory modules, Qormino®, aiming at providing both an easiness of integration and SWaP benefits (Size, Weight and Power).

scratch. This leads to a reduced development time, and enables Systems Mission Computer project teams to meet challenging project timescales and provide capable hardware to customers sooner.

Qormino offers: • High performance packed into a small substrate.

• Reduced system design time, improved timeto-market.

• 15+ years availability for obsolescence management.

Qormino Development plarform is available for evaluation and development in both PowerArchitecture and ARM versions, and Teledyne e2v can propose custom solutions based on other QorIQ architectures of DDR4 densities. Design evidences can also be available on request for Safety Critical system designs, targeting DO-254 / DAL (Design Assurance Level) certifications. A specific version of QLS1046-4GB is radiation tolerant and qualified for Space applications.

Partnership with WindRiver Due to the nature of Teledyne e2v products, customers and markets, the cooperation with WindRiver is natural and brings a significant value to our mutual Aerospace, Space & Military customers.

For demonstrations and business development activities, Teledyne e2v is showcasing the available references working in a complete ecosystem of partners. On the technical side, a VxWorks 7 BSP (Board Support Package) is available for customer evaluations and development.

Teledyne e2v, WindRiver and CoreAVI are proposing a Technical Brief related to how they help designers to face System Mission Computer challenges: www.teledyne-e2v.com/ content/uploads/2019/03/Mission-Computerchallenges-Tech-Brief.pdf

Qormino is a unique opportunity to combine a high performance processing platform, with DDR4 memory, without the risks associated with designing a high-speed memory interface from

We have also published in 2019 a joint article highlighting our strong collaboration on BAE Systems’ mission computer: www.teledynee 2 v. c o m / n e w s / t e l e d y n e - e 2 v - p r o v i d e s processing-solutions/

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Percepio Percepio is a Swedish software specialist with a rare combination of competences—embedded systems, IoT, cloud and software visualisation.

This has resulted in a world-class solution for visual trace diagnostics, Percepio Tracealyzer, used by over 500 companies worldwide, including prominent Wind River customers such as ABB and SAAB. Tracealyzer gives application developers a new level of actionable insights beyond traditional debugging tools, ensuring faster development and better products.

Percepio has been a Wind River partner since 2013. Percepio Tracealyzer supports Wind River Linux and VxWorks.

Indeed, the company is already taking extra steps to make this happen. In November 2019, for example, it announced a collaboration with Dell EMC as a key hardware partner for distributed edge solutions.

This will see the parties pre-integrate their technologies into a reference distributed cloud solution, which can cost-effectively deliver carrier grade performance, massive scalability, and rapid service instantiation to service providers as their foundation for 5G networks.

The resultant solution is a new combined software and hardware platform that integrates Dell EMC’s PowerEdge server hardware with the Wind River Cloud Platform, a Kubernetes-based software offering for managing edge cloud infrastructure. Optimised for the network edge, Cloud Platform addresses the complex challenges of deploying and managing a physically distributed, cloud native infrastructure.

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For Genard, developments such as this will enable enterprises to better tap into the potential of IoT, another of technology’s major buzzwords and trends which has dominated discussions in recent years.

“I think it is fair to argue that IoT hasn’t yet come to fruition or been fully capitalised on,” he adds. “The connectivity topology and infrastructure dynamic are what have been missing, but now we can offer the scalability and affordability needed.”

STAYING SAFE AND SECURE Equally critical is safety and security, as the explosion of connected devices is opening up a world of opportunity for cybercriminals looking to exploit network vulnerabilities.

From day one Wind River has been ensuring its customers’ devices and systems are not only doing the right job, but doing it securely, Genard observing how the security

Percepio DevAlert is a groundbreaking cloud service for developers of operational technology (OT) software systems with connectivity. DevAlert provides direct awareness and visual trace diagnostics whenever a software issue is detected in deployment or during system testing. This enables a DevOps feedback loop for rapid corrections and continuous improvement via over-the-air software updates. The inclusion of visual trace diagnostics via Percepio Tracealyzer speeds up analysis and resolution, reducing software maintenance costs.

According to research, embedded software applications typically contain three to five missed bugs per 1,000 lines of code at the initial release. Bugs that elude testing typically won’t show up directly for all users but will manifest over time. Thus, the faster an update can be provided, the fewer customers will be affected.

DevAlert minimises reaction time, which translates into higher product quality and more satisfied customers over the lifetime of the product.

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In the Lab – Tracealyzer speeds up development for faster time-to-market In the Field – DevAlert enables rapid updates and continuous improvement

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WIND RIVER

POWER OF THE ECOSYSTEM Wind River relies on a network of around 200 partners to serve its customers, with some 200 individual firms combining to form what is known as its partner ecosystem.

The company has a dedicated team responsible for managing these partnerships and identifying new opportunities, a vital component of Wind River’s ability to develop its offering and remain relevant in the numerous verticals it serves.

The partnership model is a tiered system which varies in its levels of requirements depending on the traction the partner wishes to obtain from Wind River.

Genard adds: “Every collaboration or potential collaboration starts with us considering two vital questions.

First, what is the use case, what problem does it solve for the customer and is it something we need? It must be actionable and something we don’t have, otherwise there is little purpose.

“And second, what vertical industry does it cover?

Customers will expect us to do our homework, and so the work our partnership team does in identifying partners is absolutely critical.”

conundrum has become ever more complex over his time in the industry.

“Back when a device was simply its own thing in a box, security was a far simpler equation and risks were pretty low,” he says. “Today there are so many devices connected by private and public infrastructure like Wi-Fi, and increasingly now 5G, so the security question changes entirely.

“You almost need to operate with the mindset that someone, somewhere will somehow be able to gain access to the device and get into the backend system, no matter how secure you think you are. We must therefore protect and prepare for any scenario to ensure that the consequences of any hack are minimised.”

This leads into the thinking behind Wind River’s recent acquisition of Star Lab, an American cybersecurity software company based in Washington DC. The move, announced in January 2020, broadens the comprehensive Wind River software portfolio with a system protection and anti-tamper toolset for Linux, a secure open source-based hypervisor, and a secure boot solution.

Star Lab has pedigree in the cybersecurity field, its solutions able to tackle the most challenging situations across critical infrastructure, including proactive protection of systems during sophisticated and targeted attacks that breach traditional defensive mechanisms.

LOOKING AHEAD While acquisitions represent a quick and effective way of boosting expertise and knowledge within companies, Genard is also all too aware of the need for Wind River to continue building up its in-house pool of talent at the same time.

To date, the firm employs 1,200 people around the world, including interns, as part of a concerted effort to futureproof the organisation through

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“A DECADE AGO, MOST CUSTOMERS WOULD HAVE A VERY CLEAR IDEA WHAT HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE BOX THEY WANTED THEIR DEVICE TO COME FROM. THESE DAYS THEY DON’T KNOW – THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE MARKET IS GOING TO REQUIRE” finding, attracting and developing the industry’s brightest prospects.

“We need to regularly bring in new talent,” the VP of Product adds. “To do this, we must make sure we have the right brand and communicate ourselves in a way that is appealing – our culture, how we look after staff, activities we run, career development prospects, employee benefits.

TECHNOLOGY

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Founded in 1987 in San Diego, CA, ACCES (Acquisition Control Communication Engineering/Systems) supplies an extensive range of data acquisition (DAQ) products and solutions.

These products include; analog input, analog output, digital, serial communication, and isolated I/O boards and solutions.

ACCES also offers complete systems, integration services and enclosures with a quick turn around on custom projects, including software.

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“It is also important to consider that this is a learning curve for us too – the process works two ways, and new talent brings ideas to us that we may not have considered before.”

This is crucial if Wind River is to embrace and manage growing complexity and continue to deliver positive end results to customers.

“As an industry, I believe what we will see more of is the customer

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demanding us to cut through the complexity and extract the final outcome,” Genard continues, looking ahead to the future in his concluding comments.

“A decade ago, most customers would have a very clear idea what hardware and software box they wanted their device to come from.

These days they don’t know – they don’t know what the market is going to require. What we must do is present

something which can adapt, a flexible intelligent edge infrastructure which is sound as usage scales and evolves.

“If there is one thing we want to be, it is the company that accelerates the delivery of innovative products that enable the digital transformation of our customers in a data-driven, AI-first world. The last 40 or so years have seen us build a huge customer base across the world, which has given us a tremendous opportunity to make a significant impact on this front.

“At the end of the day, we are an enabler. If our customers are successful, then we in turn are successful.”

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