Bombardier is partnering with Green Hills Software to develop the safety platform for its next-generation Train Control Management System that will simplify maintenance and aid the certification process. The TCMS will use the Green Hills Platform for Industrial Safety, which incorporates the IEC 61508 SIL3 safety-certified INTEGRITY RTOS and the MULTI IDE. Green Hills Software will also develop and conduct the CENELEC EN 50128 safety certification for a board support package for Bombardier’s system.
By adopting Green Hills Software’s safety-certified INTEGRITY RTOS, developers are able to run applications containing software of multiple levels of safety criticality concurrently on a single processor. The INTEGRITY secure separation kernel enables applications to be partitioned in such a way as to ensure that an error or failure in one application cannot impact negatively on another. Using INTEGRITY,Bombardier will be able to maintain the highest safety certification standards while significantly reducing the number of boards in the TCMS.
Bombardier is working closely with Green Hills Software’s EMEA Engineering Centre in the Netherlands, which will also develop and certify the board support package.






Wolfgang Patelay, Editor Print & Online 