LDRA, a TASKING Company, announced an all-in-one productivity package for the aerospace and defence industry that addresses software certification requirements for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) applications. By combining requirements traceability, software analysis and compliance reporting into a single streamlined workflow, the LDRA Productivity Package for Aerospace and Defence accelerates the development and certification of safe, secure and reliable embedded software applications such as avionics, flight controls, battery management and payload management systems that must meet stringent functional safety and security standards compliance.
As the aerospace and defence market moves to more autonomous, electrified and regional aerospace applications for urban air mobility, development teams continue to be challenged by greater software complexity and rising compliance costs. For example, electrification of systems increases the challenge of meeting level A requirements. At the same time, because a power failure can result in a complete system failure, the path to level A compliance is that much more important. By providing a tailored, bundled solution, the LDRA Productivity Package for Aerospace and defence helps these teams reduce risk and improve productivity while expediting certifications for standards such as DO-178C, DO-330, DO-326A/B, DO-356A, MIL-STD-882E, JSSSEH and conformance with The Open Source Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard.
“Being able to replace individual traceability, software analysis and compliance reporting solutions with a single, streamlined workflow is truly a game changer for software developers working on eVTOL programs that support electric propulsion, vertical take-off/landing control systems and others that enable urban air mobility,” said Ian Hennell, Operations Director, LDRA. “Backed by hundreds of Level A certifications and supported by LDRA Certification Services, our integrated package gives both established aerospace manufacturers or systems integrators and emerging eVTOL innovators confidence that their software can pass certification audits the first time while reducing cost and eliminating complexities.”
In addition to supporting industry standards, the LDRA Productivity Package for Aerospace and defence easily integrates with modern DevSecOps platforms to enable and extend continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous verification (CI/CD/CV). Integrations with TASKING compilers and debug/trace solutions further reduce the cost and risk of development and certification. The solution also provides industry-leading multi-core worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis for modern safety processors, including the ARM Cortex-R and RISC-V.
Comprehensive capabilities, pre-bundled for value
Instead of requiring developers to source, integrate, and maintain multiple verification tools, the LDRA Productivity Package for Aerospace and defence bundles all the essential capabilities required to demonstrate compliance at the highest assurance levels, including:
- Bi-directional requirements traceability (high- and low-level)
- Requirements-based testing (host or target)
- Static and dynamic analysis for code quality and coverage
- Compliance with coding standards (MISRA, CERT, etc.)
- Object code verification
- Unit and system-level testing (host/target)
- Security analysis and reporting
- Data/control coupling analysis
- Worst-case execution time analysis
- Tool qualification packages
- Full life-cycle support, from requirements through verification
- Extended TASKING compiler and debug/trace tool integrations
