LDRA marks its 50th anniversary at embedded world 2025

The evolution of LDRA

As embedded software becomes increasingly complex and the industry moves towards software-defined solutions, the LDRA tool suite continues in its goal of simplifying development processes.

At the LDRA booth, the team spoke all about its tool suite, which supports requirements traceability, static and dynamic code analysis, unit and integration testing, and worst-case execution timing analysis. Its capabilities extend to multicore analysis and patented data and control coupling, all complemented by extensive reporting tools that simplify compliance with industry standards. To enhance collaboration and compliance management, LDRA also offer LDRAvault, a web-based technology that facilitates project tracking across development teams.

LDRA’s key highlights from the show

At the booth, LDRA showcased its new technology partnerships, worst-case execution timing capabilities, and expanded support for MISRA C guidelines.

One of the biggest announcements was that LDRA has joined Microchip’s Mi-V ecosystem to enhance functional safety and security support for RISC-V architectures. This collaboration introduces support for PolarFire SoC FPGAs and PIC64 MPUs, simplifying verification and certification processes for RISC-V-based applications. By integrating with Microchip’s SoftConsole IDE, MPLAB X IDE extensions, and Microsoft Visual Studio Code, the LDRA tool suite enables:

• Static and dynamic analysis, including structural code coverage and coding standard compliance
• Unit and integration testing with worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis
• Requirements traceability and compliance management with LDRAvault

RISC-V developers can now leverage LDRA’s tools to enhance functional safety and security across a wide range of embedded applications. This collaboration helps ensure the reliability and compliance of RISC-V-based designs.

LDRA expands multicore and WCET support for RISC-V processors

LDRA also introduced new multicore mitigation capabilities at the show, enabling developers to assess shared memory access, cache resource contention, and worst-case execution time to guarantee deterministic performance in RISC-V-based processors.

Mission-critical systems require predictable execution times. By supporting hardware-based multicore mitigation, LDRA allows developers to optimise performance and verify execution constraints for high-performance real-time applications.

LDRA’s WCET analysis capabilities automate execution time measurement, reducing reliance on expensive consulting services and manual assessments. This ensures developers can continuously validate system performance without introducing execution time uncertainties.

LDRA for the next half decade

As LDRA enters its next 50 years, it remains dedicated to advancing software verification technologies. The company is actively exploring artificial intelligence-driven software analysis and verification methods to further streamline compliance and enhance embedded system security.

LDRA will continue to showcase its latest advancements in embedded software quality at its booth, offering visitors insights into how its tools continue to evolve in response to emerging challenges. Attendees can visit Booth 4-406 to engage with LDRA experts and explore the newest capabilities of the LDRA tool suite.