Abaco Systems has a rich heritage of cooperation with industry associations and trade groups and we work closely with some of the industry’s leading corporations.
Technology Partners
Concurrent Computer
Spun out of Perkin-Elmer in 1985, Concurrent Computer Corporation provides real-time Linux® solutions for simulation, data acquisition, process control, visual rendering and other mission-critical applications. Concurrent’s RedHawk Linux - which serves the aerospace and defense markets as well as many others - NightStar tools and SIMulation Workbench are available on x86-based Abaco Systems products, including the MAGIC1 rugged display computer.
CoreAVI
CoreAVI’s program-ready solutions include OpenGL ES/SC and video drivers that support a wide range of popular system-on-chip (SoC) and graphics processors on safety critical and real time operating systems. A worldwide provider of AMD graphics and SoC processors, CoreAVI's solutions include 20+ year supply management and temperature-screened versions of AMD Radeon™ discrete graphics. Additionally, CoreAVI provides program support with FAA DO-254 and DO-178C / EASA ED-12C (up to Design Assurance Level A) certification evidence and artifacts for safety critical environments.
DDC-I
DDC-I provides DO-178 certifiable software and tools for safety critical avionics software developers including field proven real-time operating systems and integrated development environments. Deos™ from DDC-I is a time and space partitioned RTOS, which has been certified to DO-178 Level A since 1998.
Green Hills Software
Green Hills Software provides high performance compilers, software development tools and real-time operating systems (RTOS) for developers of embedded systems.
INTEGRITY® is a secure, royalty-free real-time operating system for military and communication applications based on Abaco Systems Power Architecture products. INTEGRITY features virtual memory management, fast and deterministic interrupt response time, field debugging, guaranteed memory and CPU resource availability and support for a broad range of communication and I/O standards.
Intel®
Intel® supplies the processors and supporting technology that drive much of the world's computing. The company develops versions of its products specifically for the embedded computing industry, and Abaco Systems has long tracked each new Intel launch with new generations of single board computer and multiprocessor that deliver our customers new levels of price performance.
Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks is in the business of network innovation. From devices to data centers, from consumers to cloud providers, Juniper Networks delivers the software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking.Abaco Systems and Juniper Networks work together to develop a family of rugged, highly secure routing and network security appliances designed for military/aerospace deployment in harsh environments where security of data is paramount. The resulting solutions are sold by Abaco Systems.
Lynx Software Technologies
Lynx Software Technologies - formerly LynuxWorks - has extensive experience in the embedded computing industry. Its embedded operating systems are used in a broad range of markets. The LynxOS® and LynxOS-178 real-time operating systems are widely used in the defense industry.
Rich in system resources and networking services, LynxOS provides an off-the-shelf software platform with hard real-time response backed by powerful distributed computing (CORBA), high reliability, software certification, and long-term support options.
NVIDIA®
NVIDIA’s® invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing.
More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of computers, robots, and self-driving cars that can perceive and understand the world.
Abaco leverages NVIDIA® technology to bring advanced graphics and AI/deep learning to the harshest environments.
NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors designs and manufactures embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. Based in Eindhoven, Netherlands, NXP has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 33 countries. Abaco Systems consistently turns to NXP for innovative solutions targeted at customers committed to the Power Architecture.
Presagis
Presagis provides embedded graphics solutions for mission-critical display applications and has over 20 years of experience in the embedded market. The company’s products include embedded graphics Human-Machine Interface (HMI) modeling tools, including VAPS and VAPS XT, and Seawind graphics drivers and devices.
Presagis maintains a complete line of DO-178B Level A qualifiable tools and certifiable drivers and its safety-critical embedded graphics products are designed from inception to efficiently run on Abaco Systems products out-of-the-box.
SYSGO
SYSGO is the leading European provider of real-time operating systems for critical embedded applications in the Internet of Things (IoT). Our products have been designed to meet the highest requirements when it comes to Safety and Security. Our customers are leading players in the Aerospace, Railway, Automotive, Medical and Industrial Automation industries, who use our PikeOS product as a platform for critical systems that need to be certified against industry-specific Safety and Security standards.
Founded in 1991 and based in Germany, SYSGO has also subsidiaries in France, the Czech Republic and maintains a world-wide distribution network. The company is part of the European Thales Group.
Wind River Systems
Wind River®, is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enable the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems.
Abaco Systems provides standard Board Support Packages (BSP) that allow Wind River technology to be applied to our hardware solutions. The BSP provides a consistent interface between the underlying hardware and the Wind River platform which isolates the application software from hardware upgrade and obsolescence.
Xilinx
Xilinx invented the FPGA in the mid-1980s, and also created the fabless model. The company is now a leading provider of All Programmable semiconductor products, including FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, RFSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx uniquely enables applications that are both software-defined and hardware-optimized – powering industry advancements in cloud computing, 5G wireless, embedded vision, and industrial IoT. Xilinx customers represent just over half of the entire programmable logic market.
Abaco makes extensive use of Xilinx technology throughout our product lines, notably in our Advanced RF and DSP business, where it helps our customers turn sensor-acquired data into actionable information in the shortest time and at the lowest bandwidth in a broad range of digital and analog applications.
Trade Associations
VITA
The VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA) was accredited as an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standards development organization (SDO) in June of 1993. VITA specializes in standards development for the VMEbus industry. Abaco Systems is a member of VITA and was instrumental in, for example, helping create the OpenVPX standard that is transforming military embedded computing..