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ELISA Project Momentum ContinuesSAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) nears its year and a half anniversary, the project continues to hit key milestones showing its value for delivering foundational support for safety-critical applications. ELISA, formed in February 2019 and a hosted project of the Linux Foundation, aims to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications and systems whose failure could result in loss of human life, significant property damage, or environmental damage. As Linux continues to be a key component in safety applications, autonomous vehicles, medical devices, and even rockets, ELISA will make it easier for companies to build and expand these safety-critical systems. As a show of support for this business-critical initiative, several new members have joined the ELISA project. New members include Premier Member Intel/Mobileye, General Members ADIT, Elektrobit, Mentor, SiFive, Suzuki, Wind River and Associate Members Automotive Grade Linux and Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg. "Since forming ELISA, we've had incredible support from members and the community. As we near 18 months as a project, we've agreed on a strategy for partitioning the problem into manageable pieces, and have working groups making progress towards approaches to bridge between the Linux and safety standards communities and are looking forward to continuing the path we've been on," said Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation. "We are encouraged by broad participation, as demonstrated by our nine new members, including Intel, as well as very active working groups. These kinds of activities are indicators of achieving the critical mass needed to establish a widely discussed and accepted methodology." "Intel and Mobileye see the Linux Operating system as an important player in the functional safety software ecosystem," said Simone Fabris, ELISA Governing Board member and senior director of system safety at Mobileye, an Intel Company. "The impact and skills of the open source community will be harnessed through the ELISA project to increase the safety integrity of future embedded systems while, at the same time, contributing to a better quality, reduction of development costs and speed up the delivery of complex functional safety systems across multiple industry domains including autonomous driving and avionics." "Linux has evolved ever since its inception to run on devices small and large while serving the needs of a wide spectrum of technology, from an elevator to a supercomputer," said Shuah Khan, ELISA Technical Steering Committee Member and Linux Foundation Fellow. "Each of these evolutions requires identifying what is needed and what is missing in the existing code base and enhancing existing features and adding new ones. ELISA project's mission is to evolve Linux to serve an emerging and important safety-critical space that spans medical devices, civil infrastructure, caregiving robots, automotives, and others." In addition to incredible member growth, ELISA has established several work groups to further the crucial work o the cross-industry project and its work toward advancing open source in safety-critical systems. These groups include Kernel Development Process, Safety Architecture, Medical Devices and is now forming an Automotive working group. Community members will have the chance to learn more about this important work during the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit North America where Kate Stewart, Senior Director of Strategic Programs, The Linux Foundation, is set to give a keynote speech, "Keynote: Open Source in Safety Critical Applications: The End Game." For the first time, this event will also include an Open Source Dependability track. See the full schedule for Open Source Summit North America taking place virtually from June 29, 2020 to July 2, 2020. In addition, ELISA will continue to hold regular workshops to discuss approaches to solving the missing pieces and better tooling. Listen to previous workshops and get notified of upcoming events at https://elisa.tech/news/. New Member Quotes ADIT, a joint venture of Robert Bosch GmbH and DENSO Corporation Automotive Grade Linux Elektrobit Mentor, a Siemens business Technical University of Applied Sciences Regensburg Wind River About ELISA About The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Contact: Rachel Romoff, 210-241-8284, [email protected]
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