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The growing demand for highly
complex aircraft systems is placing
increased pressure on suppliers
to deliver aircraft with far greater
capabilities while complying with
a growing demand for safety
certification, as most advanced
cockpits require software that is
considered safety-critical. One way
to address this complexity is to
use more commercial-off-the-shelf
(COTS) software technologies that
come with certification evidence
that can be included in the
submission with the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), EASA, or
other safety agencies who grant
the authorization to operate an
aircraft. When technology suppliers
create this evidence significant risk
VxWorks 653 Multi-core Edition Update: Why COTS
Certification Evidence Matters
Stephen Olsen, Product Manager, Wind River
designs, tests, reviews, source code,
build files, test results, annotated
object-level code coverage, and
tool qualification data for critical
integrated modular avionics (IMA)
systems.
The delivery of this COTS certification
evidence:
1.
Allows suppliers to leverage
the safety-proven base platform
from Wind River, building against
the certified binaries to speed up
their certification process in next
generation safety-certified systems
using multi-core processors
2.
Removes significant certification
and deployment risk from avionics
programs
3.
Increases certification evidence
quality and depth that is not
is removed from avionics companies
who must minimize this risk at
all levels of a new program. This
becomes even more important
when using multi-core processors
where there is no straightforward
path to certification; therefore the
project risk increases exponentially.
To help avionics suppliers reduce
the risk and cost of certification,
Wind River today announced the
certification evidence release for
VxWorks® 653 Multi-core Edition
on an advanced PowerPC multi-core
processor, meeting the rigorous
RTCA DO-178C and EUROCAE
ED-12C DAL A requirements.
This release adds the certification
evidence package needed to comply
with the FAA’s safety requirements –
AeroSpace
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