RTI Connext TSS – Certified FACE® Conformant TSS
Expeditious Path to FACE and Safety Certification
The Open Group Future Airborne Capability Environment® Consortium, or FACE Consortium, collaborates on technical and business standards to promote software reuse across disparate airborne platforms, both piloted and autonomous. Within the widely-adopted FACE architecture, the Transport Services Segment (TSS) provides the APIs and capabilities that FACE portable components use to exchange data.
RTI Connext TSS is certified conformant to the FACE TSS software standard. Connext TSS is a member of the RTI Connext product suite, making it easy for component developers and systems integrators to take advantage of both the FACE technical standard and the DDS standard. Connext TSS offers decentralised architecture with peer-to-peer communication for low latency and no single point of failure, meaning no brokers or servers are required.
To accelerate the integration with FACE conformant software components with legacy systems, systems without data models and non-FACE conformant systems, RTI offers commercial tools enabling the rapid translation of data from different systems into a FACE solution stack.
Connext TSS is available as an add-on product for RTI customers with a licence to RTI Connext.
Advantages
Connext offers commercial RTCA DO-178C and EUROCAE ED-12C DAL A certification evidence audited by a third party for rapid and reliable review.
RTI Connext TSS is licensed using a simple yearly subscription based upon the number of developers. There are no production royalties or unit licence fees.
RTI has the most comprehensive FACE Partner Ecosystem in the industry. RTI has proven integrations with over twenty hardware and software providers that accelerate the development and deployment of FACE platforms. Most of these partners have commercial RTCA DO-178C and DO-254 certification evidence, and many have RTCA DO-330 qualified tools that accelerate airworthiness.
The FACE TSS API is managed by The Open Group®. The marshaling and presentation of data to the FACE TSS and FACE applications is managed by the Object Management Group® (OMG®) open DDS standard. The delivery of data on the network is managed by the OMG open Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) wire protocol, enabling rapid interoperability.
RTI Connext includes a unique, comprehensive set of tools and utilities to provide deep visibility into running systems, accelerate testing, help troubleshoot application connectivity, and solve complex data integration problems. From design to production, Connext Tools help ease the entire development lifecycle.
Connext supports multiple avionics transports, including UDP, TCP, and ARINC 653 queueing ports, with the option of integrating with other transports as needed. The included IDL compiler generates type-specific C++ interfaces from the Platform Data Model.
