SAFERTOS® at CES 2026: Bringing Certifiable Real Time Software into the Automotive Spotlight
21 Jan, 2026The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is increasingly the place where the future of automotive software is revealed, and this year, at CES 2026 WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) showcased it’s flagship product, SAFERTOS® across multiple partner demonstrations. From hardware to simulation SAFERTOS® demonstrated how safety certified real time software is scaling to meet modern automotive compute demands.
A notable moment for WHIS, long time attendees of the show that appears in Vegas each January, as functional safety becomes more prevalent in the technology exhibited. SAFERTOS® was showcased through live demonstrations on production grade automotive platforms, reflecting how embedded infrastructure increasingly reaches developers and decision makers—through ecosystems, not silos.
Demonstrating safety where it matters
At the Texas Instruments booth, SAFERTOS® was shown running on both TDA4 and the next generation TDA5 automotive platforms. These demonstrations focused on the fundamentals that automotive software engineers care most about: deterministic scheduling, predictable real time behaviour, and functional safety readiness. By running the same RTOS across current and upcoming SoCs, the demos highlighted how safety critical software can scale with silicon roadmaps rather than constrain them.
Elsewhere at the show, SAFERTOS® featured in a Quintauris automotive demo that moved seamlessly from virtual development on a Synopsys simulator to the newly announced RT Europa hardware. The ability to use the same RTOS from early development through to deployment underscored a growing industry priority: reducing validation risk and preserving safety artefacts across the entire lifecycle.
The same demo was also presented by Infineon Technologies, where it highlighted the progress of RISC V in automotive systems. Running SAFERTOS® on these new hardware platforms demonstrated that safety certified real time software is already prepared for emerging processor architectures—not just today’s mainstream platforms.
Why CES mattered for SAFERTOS®
Historically, safety critical RTOS technologies have tended to live behind the scenes—evaluated at specialist embedded events such as Embedded World, just around the corner, rather than CES. CES 2026 signalled a shift. As vehicles become software defined and compute dense, functional safety, determinism, and certifiability are no longer niche concerns. They are foundational requirements.
For many CES attendees, SAFERTOS® is familiar technology. Many exhibitors in the West Hall alone are already using it behind the scenes in their own safety critical platforms, so seeing it run across simulators, RISC V hardware, and next generation automotive SoCs simply reflected capabilities they already depend on—now playing out in a broader ecosystem context.
Seeing SAFERTOS® across multiple automotive partner booths, spanning simulators, production silicon, and next generation platforms, reinforced a simple message: certifiable real time behaviour can coexist with modern automotive innovation.
From virtual platforms to silicon, CES 2026 showed SAFERTOS® enabling predictable, safety ready real time systems across the automotive stack—right where the industry is heading next.
For WHIS and SAFERTOS®, like many in the embedded space, next is on to Embedded World in Germany this coming March. Here, WHIS has a full stand presence and can really dive into the details of their pre-certified operating system supported by further partner demos that highlight real world use of SAFERTOS® across safety critical applications. Visit WHIS at stand 4-337 if you’re attending! Or watch this space for more news on SAFERTOS® out in the wild.
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