Integrated DO-178C multicore certification solution will debut from Rapita, Wind River. June 09, 2026 Assistant Managing Editor Military Embedded Systems YORK, U.K. Software-verification tool maker Rapita Systems announced a collaboration with embedded-software company Wind River to deliver what its says is the aerospace industry's first fully integrated product designed to guide avionics programs through DO-178C multicore certification. According to the announcement, the collaborative solution is a unified, off-the-shelf platform that enables a clear and guided path from Stage of Involvement phase 1 (SOI1) through SOI4, bringing together platform software, analysis tools, certification artifacts, and services into a single, cohesive framework. By combining Wind River's certifiable operating systems, virtualization platform, and simulation technologies with the Rapita Systems timing and multicore interference analysis, customers can obtain a fully integrated solution, built specifically for certification success. The announcement says that the solution directly addresses the hardest challenges in multicore certification, including interference analysis, resource contention, and system-level verification across shared hardware environments. Major capabilities include a certifiable multicore foundation with the VxWorks RTOS and Helix Virtualization Platform hypervisor; integrated timing and interference analysis aligned to certification guidance using Rapita's RVS tool suite; and MACH178-aligned processes, tools, and evidence for a guided certification path across all SOI stages. Featured companies. 41131 Vincenti Ct. Novi, MI 48375 500 Wind River Way Alameda, CA 94501

Wind River, an Aptiv company, has announced that Superheat, a global leader in onsite heat treatment solutions, will use Wind River's eLxr Pro to power its next-generation industrial controllers. The systems will be deployed across oil, gas, energy, shipyard, aerospace and defence applications. eLxr Pro will support Superheat's proprietary wireless-remote heat treatment control systems, which must perform reliably in demanding field environments over extended service lifecycles. Built on open-source Debian-based eLxr, eLxr Pro adds commercial-grade support and hardening for production environments. The platform enables secure deployment and system updates whilst maintaining performance and security standards required for mission-critical operations. It also provides comprehensive vulnerability coverage and cryptographic implementations meeting aerospace and defence standards.

Wind River joins CHERI Alliance and partners with Innovate UK on secure computing. 2 mins read Wind River has joined the CHERI Alliance as part of a broader effort to support the development and adoption of hardware-based security technologies, while also securing backing from Innovate UK to expand its work on CHERI-enabled software platforms. The company, an Aptiv subsidiary specialising in mission-critical software for intelligent edge systems, said its involvement with the alliance will focus on advancing the use of Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI). The CHERI architecture is designed to improve system security by enforcing memory protection and access permissions at the hardware level, addressing risks such as memory corruption and unauthorised code execution. Through its collaboration with the CHERI Alliance, Wind River aims to contribute technical expertise to help manufacturers reduce memory-related vulnerabilities in embedded and safety-critical systems. "Advances like CHERI mark an important shift toward hardware-enforced security as a foundation for next-generation systems," said Paul Miller, chief technology officer for intelligent systems, software and services at Aptiv. "By addressing memory safety at the architectural level, CHERI has the potential to improve resilience across critical infrastructure and intelligent edge deployments. "Wind River is excited to collaborate with the CHERI Alliance and contribute our expertise in real-time operating systems and virtualisation, leveraging VxWorks and the Helix Virtualization Platform to help operationalise CHERI in production environments," he added. The CHERI Alliance, which brings together companies, researchers and technology providers to promote the adoption of CHERI, said Wind River's experience will support its wider objectives. "The CHERI Alliance is bringing the ecosystem together to collaborate and make it easier for the industry to design more secure products," said Mike Eftimakis, founding director of the CHERI Alliance. "We are excited to welcome Wind River to the CHERI Alliance. Their expertise and collaboration with our community will be a significant boost to our mission to accelerate CHERI adoption." In parallel, Wind River has been awarded a contract through a programme backed by Innovate UK and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, aimed at accelerating the adoption and diffusion of CHERI technology. As part of the project, the company will port and extend its VxWorks real-time operating system and Helix Virtualization Platform to support CHERI on RISC-V architectures. The work is intended to improve security and reliability for embedded and safety-critical applications, and represents a step towards the development of secure and scalable real-time operating systems for RISC-V platforms. "Working with an industry leader like Wind River will help companies accelerate innovation using industry-grade CHERI-enabled software for a new class of secure RISC-V embedded devices," said Georgios Papadakis, senior innovation lead at Innovate UK's Secure and Resilient Growth Directorate. "Transitioning Wind River platforms to CHERI RISC-V combines the power of a proven RTOS like VxWorks that has extensive safety certifications with the strengthened digital security and resilience of CHERI technology." Wind River has previously completed CHERI architecture ports of VxWorks and its Helix platform for Armv8-based Morello hardware. The extension of CHERI support to RISC-V further broadens the company's architectural coverage for commercial real-time operating systems. VxWorks is widely deployed in mission-critical environments where safety and security are key requirements, while the Helix platform enables multiple systems to be consolidated on a single embedded platform, supporting certification processes and reducing development risk.