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ARINC 653-1 is an abbreviation

for the Draft 3 of Supplement 1
to ARINC Specification 653:
Avionics Application Standard
Software Interface, published
July 15, 2003. The ARINC 653-1
specification became a standard
in October, 2003.
The ARINC 653 specification for
system partitioning and

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scheduling is often required in

safety- and mission-critical
systems, particularly in the
avionics industry.
ARINC 653 defines an
APplication EXecutive (APEX) for
space and time partitioning that
may be used wherever multiple
applications need to share a
single processor and memory, in

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order to guarantee that one

application cannot bring down
another in the event of
application failure.
Each partition in an ARINC 653
system represents a separate
application and makes use of
memory space that is dedicated
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to it. Similarly, the APEX allots a

dedicated time slice to each,
thus creating time partitioning.
Each ARINC 653 partition
supports multitasking.
Because the ARINC 653
specification forces applications
to be isolated, ARINC 653
conformance can be a step
toward DO-178B certification. In
some cases, ARINC 653
conformance makes it possible
for DO-178 certified applications
of different levels to run isolated
from each other on the same
computer.
As well, applications that use
the ARINC 653 application
programming interface (API) can
be more easily ported from one
ARINC 653 operating system to
another than those which do
not.
ARINC standards allow aircraft
manufacturers to ensure that
new installations are compatible
and interchangeable. A study
called The Economic Impact of
Avionics Standardization on the
Airline Industry, from Georgia
State Universitys Aviation Policy
Research, Aviation and Transport
Studies, estimates annual
savings by the airlines industry
of more than $291 million
annually through the use of
ARINC standards.

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The LynxOS-178 RTOS conforms

to the ARINC 653-1 Application
Executive Software (APEX)
Interface defined by the ARINC
653-1 standard. LynxOS-178 and
LynxOS-SE provide the following
system service groups in
accordance with the ARINC
653-1 standard:
ARINC 653 Partition
Management: services
related to partition
management.
GET_PARTITION_STATUS and
SET_PARTITION_MODE are

Partition Management
service requests.
ARINC 653 Process
Management: services
related to process
management.
GET_PROCESS_ID and
GET_PROCESS_STATUS are

Process Management
service requests.
ARINC 653 Time
Management: services
related to time
management. TIMED_WAIT
and PERIODIC_WAIT are Time
Management service
requests.
ARINC 653
Interpartition
Communication: services
responsible for
communication between
processes residing in
different partitions. There
are two types of
Interpartition

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Communication services:
1. Sampling Port Services:
A sampling port is a
communication object
allowing a partition to
access a channel of
communication
configured to operate in
sampling mode.
CREATE_SAMPLING_PORT and
WRITE_SAMPLING_MESSAGE

are Sampling Port

Services service
requests.
2. Queuing Port Services: A
queuing port is a
communication object
allowing a partition to
access a channel of
communication
configured to operate in
queuing mode.
CREATE_QUEUING_PORT and
SEND_QUEUING_MESSAGE are

Queuing Port Services

service requests.
ARINC 653
Intrapartition
Communication: services
responsible for
communication between
processes residing in the
same partition. There are
four types of Intrapartition
Communication service
requests:
1. Buffer Services: A buffer
is a communication
object used by processes
of a same partition to
send or receive
messages. CREATE_BUFFER

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and SEND_BUFFER are

Buffer Services service
requests.
2. Blackboard Services: A
blackboard is a
communication object
used by processes of the
same partition to send
or receive messages.
CREATE_BLACKBOARD and
DISPLAY_BLACKBOARD are

Blackboard Services
service requests.
3. Semaphore Services: A
counting semaphore is a
synchronization object
commonly used to
provide access to
partition resources.
CREATE_SEMAPHORE and
WAIT_SEMAPHORE are

Semaphore Service
service requests.
4. Event Services: An event
is a synchronization
object used to notify the
occurrence of a
condition to processes
that may wait for it.
CREATE_EVENT and
SET_EVENT are Event

Services service
requests.
ARINC 653 Health
Monitoring: The Health
Monitor (HM) is invoked by
an application calling the
RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR

service or by the OS or
hardware detecting a fault.

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