DDC-I

DDC-I, Inc.
Type Privately Held
Industry Safety Critical Embedded Software
Founded 1980
Headquarters Phoenix, Arizona
Key people

Bob Morris, President/CEO

Dr. Ole N.Oest, Founder/CTO
Products Deos, HeartOS Real-time Operating Systems
Website www.ddci.com

DDC-I, Inc. is a software development company providing real-time operating systems, software development tools and software services for safety critical embedded applications. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, DDC-I is a privately held corporation.

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History

Founded in 1980, DDC-I is a provider of complex COTS and custom embedded solutions. The first product released in 1985 was a development toolset for Ada. Support for mixed language development was added in 2000 with the addition of C & Embedded C++ programming languages. The company was an early contributor to the Ada standard as well as contributors to the Java “Expert Group”[1] for Safety Critical Java. In November 2008 the company entered the embedded real-time operating systems (RTOS) market[2][3] with its products, Deos and HeartOS, based on underlying software technology originated at Honeywell International Inc.[4]

In 1997 the company was awarded a joint contract with Sikorsky Aircraft and Boeing Defense & Space Group's Helicopters Division to develop software to be used in the Boeing/Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche.[5]

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References

  1. ^ "DDC-I Joins Safety-Critical Java Expert Group". The Free Library. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/DDC-I+Joins+Safety-Critical+Java+Expert+Group-a0154576726. 
  2. ^ "NEWS: DDC-I enters embedded RTOS market with Deos and HeartOS". EETimes. November 17, 2008. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4136360/NEWS-DDC-I-enters-embedded-RTOS-market-with-Deos-and-HeartOS. 
  3. ^ "DDC-I Enters Embedded RTOS Market". Embedded Computing Design. November 17, 2008. http://embedded-computing.com/ddc-i-purpose-rtos-offerings. 
  4. ^ "DDC-I Announces Highest Performance and Most Readily Certifiable Safety-Critical RTOS". Military Embedded Systems. http://www.mil-embedded.com/news/db/?14280. 
  5. ^ "High-tech aircraft contract". Phoenix Business Journal. May 23, 1997. http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/1997/05/19/daily11.html. 
  6. ^ Cheung, Ken. "DDC-I Deos RTOS Supports Freescale e300 and e500 Core". Embeddedstar. http://www.embeddedstar.com/weblog/2010/04/15/ddci-do178b-powerquicc/. 
  7. ^ Cole, Bernard (September 22, 2009). "DDC-I's Safety-Critical RTOS now available for Intel's Atom CPU". EETimes. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-products/processors/4113260/DDC-I-s-Safety-Critical-RTOS-now-available-for-Intel-s-Atom-CPU. 
  8. ^ "The Hot 100 Electronic Products of 2009". EDN. December 15, 2009. http://www.edn.com/article/458392-The_Hot_100_Electronic_Products_of_2009.php. 
  9. ^ "HeartOS RTOS Support for ARM Processor". Dr. Dobbs. March 19, 2010. http://www.drdobbs.com/embedded-systems/224000177;jsessionid=1AYJC20GMZP1FQE1GHRSKH4ATMY32JVN. 

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