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Moscow, Russia, July 2002 – RTSoft jsc.,
a leading provider of software development services, has
announced that it has been selected by major Avionics Manufacturer
to provide BIOS code replacement for use with Digital Logic™
CPU modules based equipment. |
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“Intel based CPU models offer numerous
advantages to OEM manufacturers including low prices, abundance
of tools and software and wide availability of experienced
developers,” said Alexander Kaliadin, business development
manager at RTSoft. “But if you plan to use to for such
applications like avionics, you must have available in source
code all pieces of software you are about to run on this
board. Despite on the fact that you might know everything
about software you have written, there is one road block – BIOS.
Licensing BIOS from manufacturer usually turns into very
expensive adventure. Our customer was looking for alternative
solutions and we came with offer to replace BIOS with our
own.” |
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According to Kaliadin, “As a result of
our effort customer got not only working BIOS with full source
code, but also additional customized functions tailored to
legacy hardware environment. For example our BIOS included
advanced bootstrapping capabilities like fetching an ADA
image over proprietary bus from non-volatile storage and
loading it into memory. Significant cost savings allowed
customer to concentrate right away on the DO-178B certification
process. RTSoft also helped customer with code coverage and
verification.” |
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“ We are very pleased with results,” adds
Kaliadin. “ It was a difficult project, but we had
completed it on time which was critical to our customer.
We are hoping that we both will benefit from our experience.
This module will serve as a generic computer core for several
types of avionics equipment in next couple of years.” |
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For additional information about support for
modular avionics systems, contact RTSoft Inc., 105077, p/o
box 158, Moscow, Russia. Tel: +7-095-742-6828; Fax: +7-095-742-6829;
e-mail: kaliadin@rtsoft.msk.ru. |
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