TASKING and WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems Enable OS-Aware Timing

By com­bin­ing TASK­ING’s embed­ded develop­ment tools with WITTENSTEIN high integri­ty sys­tems (WHIS) SAFERTOS®, engi­neer­ing teams gain a com­plete, OS-aware tool­chain for debug­ging, test­ing, and cer­ti­fy­ing safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions to IEC 61508, ISO 26262, DO-178C and other indus­try stan­dards.

MUNICH – Sep­tem­ber 1, 2026 – TASKING, a glob­al leader in high-per­for­mance embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools, today announced a tighter inte­gra­tion between its uni­fied tool­chain and WITTENSTEIN high integri­ty sys­tems (WHIS)’s pre-cer­ti­fied safe­ty real-time oper­at­ing sys­tem SAFERTOS®. By using TASKING’s embed­ded soft­ware trace tool (SWAT), devel­op­ers can per­form com­pre­hen­sive OS-aware tim­ing analy­sis with­out requir­ing ded­i­cat­ed on-chip hard­ware trace sup­port.

In safe­ty-crit­i­cal embed­ded sys­tems, pre­cise tim­ing is unques­tion­ably crit­i­cal. In a flight con­trol sys­tem, for exam­ple, miss­ing the response win­dow by even a frac­tion of a mil­lisec­ond can be the dif­fer­ence between a con­trolled maneu­ver and a loss of air­craft con­trol. How­ev­er, not every sys­tem on a chip (SoC) sup­ports hard­ware-based trace and many either lack the required fea­tures or can­not expose trace pins due to design con­straints. Even when it is pos­si­ble to remod­el hard­ware trace com­pat­i­ble SoCs into exist­ing designs, it is cost­ly and time-con­sum­ing. The TASKING and WHIS inte­gra­tion bridges this hard­ware gap to pro­vide access to cru­cial tim­ing data as well as to enable engi­neers to lever­age TASKING’s exten­sive range of debug and test tools to sup­port and accel­er­ate the develop­ment and ver­i­fi­ca­tion of appli­ca­tions run­ning on SAFERTOS.

“With this new level of inte­gra­tion, develop­ment teams design­ing safe­ty-crit­i­cal sys­tems around SAFERTOS have access to the com­pre­hen­sive debug, test, and ver­i­fi­ca­tion capa­bil­i­ties of the TASKING uni­fied tool­chain,” said Janez Ulcakar, Direc­tor of Research & Develop­ment, TASKING. “This can save pre­cious develop­ment time, increase over­all reli­a­bil­i­ty, and have greater con­fi­dence deliv­er­ing safer sys­tems to cus­tomers.”

With SWAT, devel­op­ers can now build run­time analy­sis into their develop­ment work­flow from the start, with­out any addi­tion­al hard­ware changes to board design. In addi­tion, the develop­ment envi­ron­ment is OS-aware to deliv­er the essen­tial fea­tures need­ed to cre­ate robust sys­tems, includ­ing mon­i­tor­ing task states, stack usage, queue con­tents, and sched­ul­ing behav­ior.

Faster Certification

As a pre-cer­ti­fied safe­ty RTOS, SAFERTOS deliv­ers supe­ri­or per­for­mance and pre-cer­ti­fied depend­abil­i­ty while uti­liz­ing min­i­mal resources. With deter­min­is­tic event han­dling, SAFERTOS is designed for sys­tems that need pre­ci­sion con­trol or must respond quick­ly to safe­ty events and place the sys­tem into a safe state with­in a defined time win­dow. SAFERTOS is pre-cer­ti­fied across a wide range of stan­dards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262, and includes design sup­port pack­ages that can save years of cer­ti­fi­ca­tion effort.

Appli­ca­tions using SAFERTOS often require com­pli­ance to strict safe­ty con­straints when debug­ging and trac­ing code. With TASKING and SAFERTOS inte­gra­tion, devel­op­ers can:

  • Cap­ture real-time tim­ing data on tar­gets with­out hard­ware trace capa­bil­i­ties
  • Observe the tim­ing behav­ior of every state tran­si­tion, con­text switch, and key appli­ca­tion event in real-time
  • Mon­i­tor and ana­lyze run­time CPU load and resource usage to gain in-depth under­stand­ing of resource bot­tle­necks
  • Assure safe and pre­dictable appli­ca­tion behav­ior using the full depth of real-time pro­fil­ing and tim­ing analy­sis pro­vid­ed by the TASKING LDRA test suite
  • Sim­pli­fy work­flows as develop­ment and ver­i­fi­ca­tion teams can use the same debug inter­face already present on a tar­get
  • Accel­er­ate develop­ment and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion by pro­vid­ing nec­es­sary trace­abil­i­ty and ver­i­fi­ca­tion evi­dence as well as min­i­miz­ing the need for re-test­ing

“SAFERTOS and TASKING’s tool­chain pro­vide a nat­ur­al fit for embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment,” said Emil­iano Costagli, Prod­uct Man­ag­er at WITTENSTEIN high integri­ty sys­tems. “The com­bi­na­tion brings togeth­er a trust­ed RTOS and a com­pre­hen­sive develop­ment envi­ron­ment, help­ing engi­neers work more effi­cient­ly, trou­bleshoot issues more effec­tive­ly and focus on deliv­er­ing high-qual­i­ty embed­ded soft­ware.”

Learn more about how the TASKING uni­fied tool­chain and SAFERTOS are chang­ing the way the world devel­ops embed­ded soft­ware:
https://www.tasking.com/content/partner/wittenstein/
https://www.highintegritysystems.com/tools/tasking/

About TASKING

TASKING is a lead­ing provider of embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools that com­pile, debug and test. These tools enable embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers to devel­op reli­able, high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions for a safer future. Found­ed in 1977, TASKING is com­mit­ted to expand­ing its port­fo­lio to deliv­er a sin­gle-sup­pli­er, cer­ti­fi­able tool chain. As a trust­ed part­ner focused on cus­tomer need, exper­tise and a com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty, TASKING and its inte­grat­ed tool chain accel­er­ates the soft­ware develop­ment life­cy­cle for safe­ty and secu­ri­ty crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions in indus­tries such as auto­mo­tive, aero­space and defense, indus­tri­al, med­ical, robot­ics and oth­ers.

For more infor­ma­tion, visit our web­site or fol­low us on LinkedIn.

About WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems

WITTENSTEIN high integri­ty sys­tems (WHIS) helps organ­i­sa­tions devel­op safe­ty-crit­i­cal embed­ded sys­tems with con­fi­dence. Through SAFERTOS®, soft­ware assur­ance solu­tions and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion sup­port, WHIS pro­vides the evi­dence, trace­abil­i­ty and guid­ance need­ed to sup­port func­tion­al safe­ty, cyber­se­cu­ri­ty and com­pli­ance activ­i­ties. With more than 20 years of expe­ri­ence across auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al automa­tion, med­ical tech­nol­o­gy, aero­space and rail, WHIS helps engi­neer­ing teams reduce cer­ti­fi­ca­tion effort, improve audit readi­ness and build con­fi­dence in the soft­ware foun­da­tions of safe­ty-crit­i­cal prod­ucts.

For more infor­ma­tion, please visit: https://www.highintegritysystems.com or find WHIS on LinkedIn.

Media contacts:

Kelly Wan­lass, HCI Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Inc., Media Rela­tions
Tel: +1 (801) 602-4723, Email: kelly@hcimarketing.com

Eylul Kocak, TASKING, PR & Con­tent Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er
Tel: +49 89 262010082 Email: eylul.kocak@tasking.com

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