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Building End-to-End AI/ML Workflow Blueprints for Safety- and Mission Critical Systems | Tuesday, October 20
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Scroll down to watch the first two sessions on demand; they cover bringing trained AI models to embedded systems and making AI execution predictable in safety-critical applications.
"MOSA is critical to modernization." – Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth
AI/ML is foreseen to be integrated into safety- and mission-critical aerospace and defense systems. Engineering teams now face a hard question: how do you develop, deploy, and verify AI-enabled software with the predictability, traceability, and evidence that certification requires? Lynx and Ansys, part of Synopsys have collaborated to showcase a continuous, closed-loop engineering workflow that links system requirements, AI/ML development, embedded deployment, and system-level verification in an example blueprint built around a Helicopter Emergency Stopping (HES) use case.
On the Ansys side, the demonstration follows a Digital Engineering approach and is based upon a variety of tools to join MBSE (Model Based Systems Engineering) and Simulation: Software Architect Modeler (SAM), medini analyze, SCADE Suite, AVxcelerate Autonomy, AVxcelerate Sensors and Systems Tool Kit. Lynx provides the deterministic embedded execution environment with MOSA.ic.AI, a platform for running AI workloads on predictable CPU/GPU runtime environments designed for mission-critical operation. MOSA.ic.AI provides secure partitioning for mixed-criticality architectures and transforms AI/ML models trained anywhere, to execute bounded and deterministically in this environment. Together, these solutions support system architecture modeling, safety analysis, scenario-based simulation, AI/ML design, development and deployment, model-based software engineering and code generation, and requirements verification. The engineering workflow enables rapid prototyping, ML-model re-training and turnaround, moving from software-in-the-loop simulation to target-based and hardware-in-the-loop verification.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Use simulation to discover AI-related system underperformance early, before implementation reach target hardware.
- Maintain end-to-end traceability from requirements through AI/ML lifecycle artifacts to verified behavior.
- Integrate deterministic control software and AI/ML functions in a unified, modular, mixed-criticality embedded architecture.
- Transition from SiL to HiL testing in a predictable embedded runtime environment.
- Create and capture safety evidence throughout the workflow to support assurance and certification.

SPEAKER
Bob Monkman
Director of Product Management, Lynx
Bob Monkman is the Director of Product Management for the MOSA.ic.AI platform at Lynx. Bob has been active in the embedded software industry for over 30 years. Bob has held leading roles in product management, product and segment marketing, open-source strategy, strategic alliances, technical marketing, as well as applications and software engineering, primarily in mission critical and safety critical sectors.

SPEAKER
Gabriel Pedroza
Principal Trustworthy AI Engineer, Ansys, Part of Synopsys
Dr. Gabriel Pedroza has over two decades of R&D experience spanning seven years at CEA-List (Paris-Saclay University) and, since 2023, a role as Principal R&D Trustworthy AI Engineer at Ansys/Synopsys. His academic foundation includes a Ph.D. in security of embedded and distributed systems (Télécom-ParisTech, 2013), an M.Sc. in AI (Metropolitan Autonomous University, 2007), and a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (National Polytechnic Institute, 2001). His research spans system and software modelling languages, formal methods, and Model-Driven Engineering, with a focus on safety and security across critical domains. He has contributed to numerous national and European research projects and co-organized the AISafety and SafeAI workshops. Gabriel currently works at the intersection of trustworthy AI, autonomy, and AI alignment with safety and security standards. He is an active participant in aerospace and automotive standardization groups targeting AI safety certification.
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AI innovation is accelerating rapidly, but deploying trained models into mission-critical embedded systems remains a significant challenge. While today's AI frameworks excel at model development, they were not designed for the deterministic inference, workload isolation, and certification requirements of aerospace, defense, and other safety-critical applications. LYNX MOSA.ic.AI bridges this AI deployment gap by optimizing AI inference for Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP)-constrained embedded systems, enabling validated models to execute predictably alongside real-time and safety-critical workloads.
In this webinar, you'll learn how to bring your own trained AI model into MOSA.ic.AI without changing your existing AI development workflow. We'll demonstrate how the platform separates model development from deployment while providing deterministic inference, unified CPU/GPU execution, mixed-criticality support, hardware portability, and open systems architecture to simplify integration and enable reliable AI deployment at the edge.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Bring existing AI models into MOSA.ic.AI without modifying established development workflows.
- Optimize AI inference for SWaP-constrained embedded systems while maintaining predictable, deterministic behavior.
- Deploy AI alongside real-time and safety-critical applications using a unified CPU/GPU architecture.
- Reduce integration risk with an open, hardware-portable platform designed for long-term mission evolution

SPEAKER
Ernie Harrison
Principal Software Engineer, Lynx
Ernie Harrison is a Principal Engineer at Lynx, where he leads the development of safety-critical GPU compute and AI technologies based on Vulkan SC. With more than 15 years of experience in embedded software, real-time operating systems, and safety-critical graphics, he has helped architect and deliver DO-178 certifiable GPU drivers, graphics libraries, and compute technologies for aerospace, defense, and other mission-critical industries. Throughout his career at Wind River, CoreAVI, and now Lynx, Ernie has worked closely with leading aerospace and defense organizations and technology partners to bring high-performance graphics and compute capabilities to certifiable embedded platforms. His work spans embedded Linux, virtualization, real-time operating systems, GPU drivers, OpenGL SC, Vulkan SC, and deterministic GPU compute. Today, Ernie's focus is enabling safety-critical AI through Vulkan SC Compute, helping customers deploy deterministic, certifiable GPU-accelerated AI applications on embedded platforms. In this webinar, he will introduce Lynx's new Vulkan SC-based Compute AI products and discuss how they enable next-generation AI capabilities for safety-critical systems.
AI workloads introduce timing variability that can make them difficult to deploy in mission- and safety-critical environments. Dynamic resource demands, shared CPU and GPU resources, and unpredictable execution times can interfere with real-time applications and complicate system validation. To deploy AI confidently at the edge, system architects need a way to control how AI workloads execute and demonstrate that critical timing requirements will be met.
In this webinar, we’ll explore how LYNX MOSA.ic.AI enables predictable, bounded AI inference within mixed-criticality embedded systems. Attendees will learn how workload isolation, controlled resource allocation, and unified CPU/GPU execution help reduce interference and establish consistent runtime behavior. We’ll also examine how these capabilities support system validation, certification objectives, and the long-term evolution of AI-enabled platforms.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Identify common sources of variability in embedded AI execution.
- Establish predictable and bounded inference performance for critical workloads.
- Isolate AI, real-time, and safety-critical applications on shared compute platforms.
- Coordinate CPU and GPU resources while maintaining timing and workload requirements.
- Support validation and certification efforts with observable, repeatable execution behavior.

SPEAKER
Ethan Salehi
Technical Account Manager, Lynx
Ethan Salehi is an Technical Account Manager at Lynx and a Ph.D. researcher at Kennesaw State University, where his research focuses on safe and secure real-time operating systems for multicore embedded systems. He has extensive experience supporting defense and aerospace programs with certifiable software solutions aligned with MOSA, FACE, and DO-178C standards. Ethan previously served as a FACE Verification Authority at LDRA and contributed to multicore interference analysis initiatives in collaboration with the U.S. Army. His work bridges theoretical architectures and practical deployment of OS-level standardization, supporting mission-critical environments such as degraded visual operations and autonomous systems.
Explore Session Recaps
Continue the conversation from our first two MOSA.ic.AI webinars. Read the Q&A recaps for practical answers to audience questions, and explore the accompanying blog for key insights on deploying AI in mission- and safety-critical systems.
Bridging the AI Deployment Gap Q+A
Deterministic Inference for Safety-Critical Systems Blog
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