VxWorks 653 Platform 2.x Essentials

The Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform 2.x Essentials course provides engineers with a fast, cost-effective way to acquire the skills necessary to develop safety-critical applications with Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform.

After this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Take a requirement specification to a working application.
• Develop, test, and debug safety-critical applications with the VxWorks 653 real-time operating system (RTOS).
• Accelerate the development and configuration of ARINC 653 safety critical systems.
• Use VxWorks 653 – specific Workbench facilities to configure VxWorks 653 applications.
• Build applications within partitions, and use ARINC ports for I/O from partitions.
• Use core tools efficiently: simulation, inspector, Wind River System Viewer host and target-based shell, monitoring, file systems, network stacks.

• Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform 2.3

• Application developers creating standards-based safety-critical applications
• Those who primarily use C and need to develop partition-based applications using the features of the VxWorks 653 RTOS

Day 1

Introduction to ARINC 653

• ARINC 653 Overview
• Time and Space Partitioning
• Partition Management, Control, and Scheduling
• Interpartition Communication
• Health Monitoring

Getting Started

• VxWorks 653 Platform Components
• Getting Help
• Cross-Development
• Simulator
• Hands-on: Getting Started (Hardware or Simics Target)

VxWorks 653 System Architecture

• Module OS and Partition Scheduling
• Partition OS and Task/Process Scheduling
• Shared Libraries
• ARINC Port Interpartition Communication
• Payloads (net, ROM, RAM)
• Hands-on: System Architecture

Day 2

VxWorks 653 Error Management

• ARINC 653 Health Monitoring
• Interpartition Health Monitoring
• Error Codes
• Hands-on: Error Injection and Handling, Installing Custom Handlers

VxWorks 653 Data Management

• File Systems
• Loadable Shared Data

Configuring and Building a VxWorks 653 System

• XML Configuration and Build
• Payload Configuration and Build
• Workbench Configuration and Build
• Hands-on: Configuring and Building VxWorks 653 Components, Net Builds, “System Integrator” Configuration, “Cert” Builds, Building a RAM Payload

Day 3

VxWorks 653 Communication

• ARINC 653 Ports
• I/O Device Driver Models
• DO-178B Network Stack
• Hands-on: Interpartition Communication Using ARINC Ports

Debugging VxWorks 653

• Host Shell
• Source Level Debugger
• Wind River System Viewer
• Monitoring Tools
• Hands-on: Task and System Mode Debugging, Multiple Partition Debugging
• Hands-on: System Viewer
• Hands-on: Monitoring Tools

Day 4

ARINC 653 API

• Partition Management
• Process Management
• Time Management
• Interpartition Communication
• Intrapartition Communication
• Health Monitoring
• Hands-on: ARINC 653 API

Use Case: I/O Partition

Consultant Q&A

Optional Topics

• Certification
• Safety-Critical Software Development
• DO-178B Certification
• Certification Evidence
• Hands-on: Migrating Legacy (VxWorks 653 2.2) Projects

Prerequisite Course

• Real-Time Programming for Embedded Systems

Prerequisite Skills

• User-level familiarity with the host operating system on which the Wind River VxWorks 653 Platform will be installed
• One year C or C++ programming
• Basic understanding of operating systems and debugging techniques
• Basic understanding of ARINC 653 concepts

• This four-day expert-led course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
• Attendees use VxWorks 653 Platform 2.3 to gain experience with the topics presented.
• Students use VxWorks 653 Platform 2.x to gain experience with the topics presented.
• Participants examine and exercise simulated network topologies in hands-on labs.
• Participants receive individual guidance from an expert engineer who has extensive experience with Wind River technologies.

• VxWorks 653 Platform 2.x Porting and Advanced Topics
• VxWorks MILS Platform 2.x Essentials