Design and implementation of a degraded vision landing aid application on a multicore processor architecture for safety-critical application

The progress of silicon integration has led to the ability to integrate complex systems on a single die. Integration of different application software components on a distributed system-on-chip can be demanding unless one follows a structural system integration approach with architectural support by hardware. The ACROSS Multi-Processor System-on-Chip platform provides architectural means for integration, such as well-defined communication interfaces, deterministic communication schedules, fault-containment, and error-confinement support. We present the non-functional requirements of a degraded vision landing system for a helicopter and show how the ACROSS Multi-Processor System-on-Chip research platform alleviates integration of software and system components. We also discuss more general multicore-specific software-related requirements and how the ACROSS MPSoC platform meets these.