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BAE Meets Royal Air Force Deadline and Stringent Requirement for Safety and Security
VxWorks RTOS and development tools power the radar map display system of advanced fighter jets
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“By standardizing on the Wind River platform for the TARDIS project, we have a software foundation that can allow us to accelerate the development of the design and meet the stringent requirements for safety and security.”
—BAE
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THE OBJECTIVE
The Royal Air Force needed to quickly develop error-free navigation for its Tornado GR4 low-level attack jet. The system—known as TARDIS—requires on-the-fly processing of radar data and digital moving-map display data for both pilot and navigator. The challenge was to reliably integrate multiple highly sophisticated software applications to produce full-color, real-time displays.
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HOW WIND RIVER HELPED
BAE chose the VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS), its development tools platform, and Wind River® Professional Services to deliver a state-of-the-art Tornado Advanced Radar/Map Display Information System, aka TARDIS.
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THE RESULTS
Using Wind River products and services, BAE avionics engineers were able to meet their challenging deadline with a state-of-the-art system that uses liquid-crystal active matrix displays, the latest radar processing techniques, and map-generation software and graphics. TARDIS provides digital color display screens for the pilot and navigator, who can view displays together or independently. The system integrates radar data and digital moving-map display data to provide optimal situational awareness for low-level terrain navigation and avoidance capabilities.