RTCA DO-178C Training

• DO-178 Basic Overview
  Understanding the evolution of the guidelines and application of DO-178C

• The BIG Picture
  Dependence on ARP4754 and ARP4761 for Design Assurance Level and System Requirements
  allocated to software, safety objectives, system and hardware definition.
  DO-178 and DO-254 derived requirements, what are they?

• RTOS or Bare Metal

  It’s a key question, learn how to determine the best use case.

  “Can I use Linux to save money?” If you don’t know, we can advise if and when you can.
  Any project from DAL C through A, the answer is a clear NO!, but why?

• Tool Qualification

  Tool qualification in accordance with RTCA DO-330 defines the requirements, where you may need
  to qualify your own tools. This may impose additional activity for selection of Bare Metal software implementations.

• Quality Assurance

  The QA department must be involved at all stages of the DO-178C process. The QA team must not just be a signer of documents with no other effort.

• Multi Core Consideration

  Consideration for Multi-Core processing might be a simple choice for software developers, but this can really mess with determinism and adds more effort to the verification team to prove the software is deterministic and robustness.
  This issue is hot and needs to be addressed in the training, we can help the decision process.

• Primary Flight Display or Ground System Displays

  In house graphics for display using OpenGL SC or using of COTS vendors?
  Considered the hardware architecture and the software certifiable stack, are they compatible?
  We can help explain these issues and provide solutions. Intro to DO-278A if required.

• Redundancy of Hardware

  What does the hardware have to do with Software?
  If you don’t know, we can provide the information and offer guidance.

• Use of Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

  Is this being considered?

• Software verification

  Verification should be directly based on requirements, all verification must be isolated from the software development team, but why?

  Software developers should not be verifying their own work, did you know this? why?

• DO-178C Stages of Activity

• Software Configuration Management

• Software Planning Process

• Software Development (Architecture)

• Software Coding

• Software Integration

• Software Verification Process

• DO-178C Accomplishment
  What’s the purpose and it’s relation to the PSAC Plan, do you know?

Our training can explain and provide detailed answers to all the topics discovered above through our experience in industry.

Use our experience to enable your Managers and Engineers.

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