Green Hills Selected by Saab Bofors Dynamics to Supply High Reliability Solution for Advanced Missile System

“Reliability was crucial to the Saab Bofors Dynamics team and a major reason for choosing solutions from Green Hills Software,” according to Pontus Björklund, Manager Software Architecture and Platform at Saab. Saab looks for rigorous conformance with all applicable certification schemes, as well as a firm commitment to long-term co-operation to support Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) throughout the lifetime of its projects, including RBS15. Green Hills Software was uniquely able to meet Saab’s requirements, both in terms of development tools and the RTOS for its chosen hardware platform.

Green Hills Software is also providing protocols for high reliability networking to support control and monitoring of RBS15 units in the field. These form part of a complete development solution from Green Hills Software providing project benefits, including lower costs and unified technical support, while also maximizing product performance and conformity with defence procurement requirements internationally.

“Green Hills has been able to make a valuable contribution to the RBS15 project, working closely with the team at Saab Bofors Dynamics” said Christopher Smith, Vice President of Marketing at Green Hills Software. “We are partnering in crucial aspects that simply must be right in order for defence contractors to deliver extremely high performance and reliability with the low life-cycle costs demanded by modern military procurement bodies.”

The RBS15 project has unique requirements within the different computer systems. The combination of the INTEGRITY RTOS with an Ada 95 language-based AdaMULTI IDE for Bare Board provides a complete suite of software development tools for mission-critical embedded systems.

The Green Hills INTEGRITY RTOS is a true real-time operating system that carries reliability, availability, and serviceability credentials. It has been certified multiple times to the FAA’s safety critical standard DO-178B Level A for flight-critical avionics and being used in FDA/CDRH Class II and III life-critical medical devices. INTEGRITY uses hardware memory protection to maximize security without sacrificing real time performance, and is designed to help embedded designers guarantee resource availability.