Wind River Helix
Virtualization Platform:
The Best of All Worlds

Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform consolidates multi-OS and mixed-criticality applications onto a single edge compute software platform, simplifying, securing, and future-proofing critical infrastructure solutions.

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Modernizing Legacy Systems
Features & Benefits
Market Use Cases
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Modernizing Legacy Systems for Intelligence at the Edge

The demand for more intelligence at the edge while supporting legacy applications requires industries to adapt quickly to modern software and cloud deployment practices while maintaining dedicated, long-standing software. To meet these challenges, Helix Platform allows legacy software to remain unchanged while running alongside new applications, and it provides all the benefits of a consistent, scalable, and agile platform across a wide range of edge devices.

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Wind River Helix Virtualization Platform Benefits

Support for Multiple Use Cases

Highly regulated applications requiring robust time and space partitioning
Combining multiple workloads without certification requirements
Mixed criticality: Combining safety-certified with non-certified applications

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Industry-Leading RTOS Technology

Robust time and space partitioning
Safety-certified functionality
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) certification evidence
Trusted by over 9,000 companies
Used in over 550 safety certification programs

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Support for Multiple OSes

VxWorks^® RTOS
Wind River Linux
Open source Linux
Roll-your-own
Bare metal
Any unmodified guest OS

Reduced Cost, Complexity, and Risk

Support for a wide range of industry standards
Application consolidation and future-proofing
Robust partitioning
Wind River Workbench IDE and Wind River Simics^® simulation

Easier Certification

ISO 26262 automotive safety
IEC 61508 industrial functional safety
DO-178C airborne system safety

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Support for Multiple Architectures

Arm^® and Intel^® silicon platforms
Multi-core hardware support

Market-Specific Use Cases

Automotive

The connected, autonomous, and electric vehicles of today require a new approach to designing and developing the compute systems in cars. Helix Platform provides that approach, allowing you to consolidate all types of functions and different levels of safety criticality into a single platform, today and into the future

Avionics

Helix Platform allows avionics system suppliers to consolidate multiple federated systems with both safety-critical and general-purpose applications onto a single safe, secure, and reliable compute platform—and reduces the risks and costs of implementing new capabilities in the future.

Defense

At the center of an integrated C4ISR system are cutting-edge virtualization technologies, processors, and sensors that seamlessly integrate connectivity, smart situational awareness, and enhanced decision making for the connected warfighter. Helix Platform provides a single compute platform for the necessary software interoperability, coupled with robust cybersecurity capabilities.

Industrial

Helix Platform brings new intelligence to equipment manufacturing, energy, transportation, and more. Its virtualization technology enables consolidation of applications, data analytics, communication, and operations for industrial systems to deliver Industrial 4.0 capabilities to the edge.

Medical

Helix Platform is bringing new intelligence to medical equipment and devices. It provides a single edge compute platform for running multiple applications with mixed levels of criticality, enabling a safe, secure, reliable, and updatable system for innovative, cost-effective healthcare.