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DO-178B Level A Programming Environment

eCast Webinar - Esterel Technologies and Wind River

September 9, 2010

• 01:00 p.m. New York, Boston, Atlanta, Montreal
• 02:00 p.m. Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires
• 06:00 p.m. London, Lisbon
• 07:00 p.m. Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berne, Brussels, Rome, Zurich, Copenhagen, Budapest
• 08:00 p.m. Istanbul, Helsinki, Athens

Avionics software development brings together a challenging and unique blend of safety-critical platforms, reliable software, sophisticated displays, and user input software. This is even more true when the system must meet safety-critical requirements per RTCA DO-178 Level A or other safety or security certification criteria. Starting with a reliable COTS software and hardware foundation coupled with a powerful graphics development and deployment environment can save significant program t time and help ensure successful product qualification and acceptance.

In this ECAST, we will introduce the value of the formal design, verification, and implementation technologies on COTS platforms used to develop critical embedded control applications under RTCA DO-178B. We will explore the problems developers face when confronted with DO-178B Level A compliance and how formal development techniques and COTS components can help increase productivity while maintaining the highest level of safety and reliability in applications. We will also discuss the newest standard in development, DO-178C.

Speakers

John Macauley - Technical Manager at Esterel Technologies - Supports the use of SCADE in the US for DO-178B avionics applications. Mr. Macauley received a M.Engr. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a BSE in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut.

Chip Downing - Director of Business Development for Aerospace and Defense at Wind River Systems - Based out of the corporate office in Alameda, California USA. A 20-year veteran of the embedded systems industry and a pioneer in safety certification for commercial RTOSs, Chip previously was Vice-President of SCADE Sales for Esterel Technologies, selling a model-based design and development environment for DO-178B and IEC 61508 control systems. Mr. Downing has also lead sales, marketing, and consulting organizations at Validated Software, OnCore Systems, Mentor Graphics, Qualix Group, Ready Systems, and CENCO, now part of the Safran Group, selling and delivering DO-178B and other high reliability solutions.