FACE Program
Overview
There are multiple customers that are working on FACE related activities with essentially the same goal of creating portable applications on different hardware and OS platforms.
The 3 that we are engaged with currently are listed below.
AMRDEC Redstone Arsenal Huntsville, Alabama.
Customer's Product: Evaluation
Hardware: VPX6-187 Freescale QorIQ P4040/4080 SBC
Expected cert: TBD
SOW: TBD.
Baseline: FourPeaks
Technical Contact: Christopher Edwards
Management Contact: Steven P. Price
Tucson Embedded Systems Tucson, Arizona.
Customer's Product: Evaluation
Hardware: Fit-PC2i Intel Z530 Atom
Desired Hardware: Ballard Technology AB3000
Expected cert: TBD
SOW: TBD.
Baseline: FourPeaks
Technical Contact: Stephen Simi
Management Contact: Stephen Simi
Honeywell Aerospace Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Customer's Product: Evaluation
Hardware: VPX6-187 Freescale QorIQ P4040/4080 SBC
Expected cert: TBD
SOW: TBD.
Baseline: FourPeaks
Technical Contact: Matt Warpinski
Management Contact: David Baughman
Deos Management Contact: Bill Cronk
Deos Technical Contact: Gary Gilliland
Charge Code: 2140-000-746 - Deos Pre-sales and Marketing
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Milestones
| Program | Milestones | Type | Stable Date | Ship Date | Cur. Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FACE | Deos 2 Day Field Class | Training | 2014-10-09 | 2014-10-09 | 2014-10-10 | DONE |
| FACE | Deos FACE Eval Release | Release | 2014-05-29 | 2014-10-09 | 2014-10-09 | DONE |
| FACE | Deos_FACE_Evaluation | Evaluation | 2014-05-29 | 2014-10-09 | 2015-01-31 | In Progress |
Projects
Code Name
FACE FACE stands for Future Airborne Capability Environment. It is a U.S. Military initiative to provide architectural application standards for military avionics.
Install and Training at Redstone Arsenal - October 9 - October 10, 2014
Recap
- The lab I was installing in does not allow the use of USB stick so I had to burn a DVD to take it in. I did this and tested it on my system the day before with no issues.
- Windows 7 system install. In order to run setup the system required an admin login. Then the install proceeded to completion.
- When we tried to run Open Arbor we got an error: I didn't write it down but it was a java file access error in combination with an (access denied)
I talked to Josh and determined that following were not created and therefore were file not found. C:\DDCI_modelo20140821\desk\etc\xsd\DEOS_*.*
- Since the distribution was installed as an admin all the files and directories were owned by the admin so when we tried to run OpenArbor as a regular user thus the failure.
- From talking with Josh, we decided that we could get the Admin back over and have him login and run OpenArbor to generate these files. This worked but then other things failed.
- We determined the best course of action was to change permissions so that regular users had access to all the files.
- I got the Admin over to do that and it turned out that was very difficult to do because we do not have all the subdirectories inherit the parents permissions. But we finally got everything working
Install and Training at Tucson Embedded - December 17, 2014
Recap
Installed without issue. Setup and trained on fitpc2 target. Left them my fitpc2 target for the evaluations.
Install and Training at Honeywell Aerospace ABQ - November 20-21, 2014
Recap
Installed without issue. Setup and trained on CW VPX6-187 target. Also helped them with AB3000 BSP that Honeywell SWCOE is developing.
Key concerns for Evaluation
- FACE Conformance(ARINC653 only since we don't have POSIX yet)
- They have A653 applications that were written to other RTOS (VX653 & Intgrity 178)
- Goals
- Assess the difficulty of moving these applications to Deos
- Assess the Arinc653 Compliance
