DO-178C and Related Standards

INDUSTRY STANDARDS

DO-178C

Achieving certification for airborne systems leveraging Model-Based Design

The DO-178C standard defines a set of objectives for software to be certified for use in airborne systems. You can reduce risks and effort with a verification approach to support the DO-178C objectives:

Iterate and refine system requirements by creating an executable specification
Define architecture and confirm your design choices for robustness and maintainability leveraging modeling and simulation
Demonstrate code and executable coverage through back-to-back testing and end-to-end traceability from requirements to tests
Automate model and code review activities
Reduce testing activities by using formal methods

DO-178 Standards with MATLAB and Simulink

Leonardo Accelerates Development and Compliance of Radar Navigation Software to DO-178C

Airbus Defence and Space Develops Safety-Critical Avionics Using Model-Based Design

Alenia Aermacchi Develops Autopilot Software for DO-178B Level A Certification

Bell Helicopter Develops World’s First Commercial Fly-by-Wire Helicopter

Managing Requirements and Traceability
Implementing and Verifying Your Design
Demonstrating Your Code Quality

Using Requirement-Based Testing
Enabling a Qualified Workflow

Managing Requirements and Traceability

Manage your system requirements with end-to-end traceability:

Produce requirements with rich text, images, and all their attributes
Review and demonstrate completeness with your objectives
Generate the requirement documentation for certification audits

Customer Success

Alenia Aermacchi Shortened the Requirements Review by 30%

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Track Requirement Links with a Traceability Matrix

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Implementing and Verifying Your Design

Design an architecture and make implementation choices so that your design is robust and maintainable:

Decompose your implementation and componentize
Manage your data coupling and control coupling
Check your design for accuracy and ;compliance with industry standards (DO-178C/DO-331, DO-254 checks)
Generate design documentation for certification audits
Generate code and ensure compliance between code and models

Customer Success

Simulink Code Inspector and Polyspace Qualified under DO-330

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Demonstrating Your Code Quality

Automatize code validation through the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) compliance and formal methods:

Check code quality and maintainability by inspecting code with regards to MISRA or CERT-C rules
Reduce low-level testing activities leveraging formal methods (DO-333)

Customer Success

Continuous Integration: Automate Your Workflow

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Checking MISRA Code Rule Compliance with Polyspace Products (5:09)

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Test and requirements traceability in coverage results.

Testing Your Implementation Based on Requirements

Demonstrate conformance to the requirements regarding functional and technical expectations:

Re-use the test procedures used to mature the requirements for formal testing
Use requirements-based testing for model development

Customer Success

Simulink Code Inspector and Polyspace Qualified under DO-330

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Enabling a Qualified Workflow

“We have the same high level of confidence in the quality of the generated code as in the code created using our traditional manual processes. With Embedded Coder we know we are generating the right code, and with Simulink Code Inspector we can guarantee that it is traceable to the model.”
Jillian Alfred, Bell 525 fly-by-wire control law designer

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