TECHNICAL CONTENT
Safety (2)
Overarching Properties: An Alternative to DO-178
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Nov 16, 2019 10:20:00 AM
_______________ Overarching Properties—an alternative design assurance approach to DO-178C—marks the biggest change in airborne software safety certification since DO-178B was unveiled in 1992. Intended to be more efficient and flexible than...
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Embedded Best Practices at Arm Tech-con
James Deutch | Principal Field Applications Engineer: Oct 17, 2019 2:13:00 PM
_______________ Lynx participated in this year’s Arm TechCon with a booth in the expo hall, where we demoed Lynx MOSA.ic and its components — LynxSecure®, Buildroot Linux, LynxOS-178®, and Lynx Simple Applications (which are bare-metal apps). It was...
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How to Choose a Real-Time Operating System
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Oct 14, 2019 10:32:00 AM
_______________ Choosing an RTOS is not as simple as choosing a car. We know about cars; we know their strengths and weaknesses and we intuitively understand compromises like performance vs practicality or luxury vs price. We see all kinds of...
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Realizing modern Automotive Software Environments
Chris Barlow | Technical Product Manager: Oct 9, 2019 2:17:00 PM
_______________ The complexity of today’s automobiles is increasing with every new model on the market. A modern car can contain hundreds of electronic control units and with connectivity and autonomy becoming commonplace, this is increasing...
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What is SR-IOV and Why is It Important for embedded devices?
Tim Loveless | Principal Solutions Architect: Oct 7, 2019 2:09:00 PM
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is the complex name for a technology beginning to find its way into embedded devices. SR-IOV is a hardware standard that allows a PCI Express device – typically a network interface card (NIC) – to present...
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What is a Reusable Software Component?
Whitfield Thomas | Content Manager: Mar 11, 2019 10:45:00 AM
A DO-178B/C Reusable Software Component (RSC) is a software collection that is recognized as meeting the requirements of RTCA/DO-178B/C and that may be used on more than one project without having to regenerate certification artifacts. The FAA...
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CAST-32A: Significance and Implications
Mark Brown | Systems Architect: Nov 15, 2018 10:36:00 AM
_______________ CAST-32A presents the coordinated position of avionics certification authorities regarding Multi-Core Processors (MCPs). While today’s aerospace ecosystem could benefit from the use of MCPs, before CAST-32A was published, FAA/EASA...
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