Safety is one of the key issues for railway applications. Railway safety is concerned with the protection of life and property through regulation, management and technology development of all forms of rail transportation. With modern technology, developers are increasingly turning to electronic / s...

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What is RTCA/DO-178B/C? The international avionics standard for safety-critical software, RTCA/DO-178B/C Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification Requirements, imposes very strict Dynamic Coverage Analysis requirements. The LDRA tool suite provides a comprehensive s...

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Background The RTCA DO-278 / EUROCAE ED-109 "Guidelines for Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Systems Software Integrity Assurance" is a complementary standard to the airborne DO-178B standard. RTCA DO-278 / EUROCAE ED-109 provides guidelines for the assur...

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What is MISRA-C:2004? In 1998 The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) published the document "Guidelines For The Use Of The C Language In Vehicle Based Software". This document was produced to promote the use of "Safe C" in the automotive industry for systems classified as MISRA...

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What is MISRA-C:1998? In 1998 The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) published the document "Guidelines For The Use Of The C Language In Vehicle Based Software". This document was produced to promote the use of "Safe C" in the automotive industry for systems classified as MISRA...

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The HIS working group Software Test released a common subset of the rules from the 1998 version of the MISRA Guidelines that would be applicable for HIS and published these on the HIS website http://www.automotive-his.de. This document specifies the additional rules which will be applicable to HIS ...

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What is Def Stan 00-55? It is a requirement that all safety-critical software supplied to the MOD must comply with the MOD standard Def Stan 00-55. The LDRA tool suite provides a powerful set of Static and Dynamic Analysis facilities which greatly assist in the process of ensuring that software app...

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As provider of the LDRA tool suite, the JSF software test tool of choice, LDRA has worked closely with prime contractor Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company (LMCO) during the critical System Design and Development (SDD) phase of the project. Most recently, this technology partnership has seen LDR...

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What is High Integrity C++? The High-Integrity C++ Coding Standard: © The Programming Research Group manual has been designed for use by organisations that aim to produce high quality C++ software. LDRA is able to assist software developers and testers to check for violations against the standard...

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Background to IPA/SEC C The IPA/SEC C language guide to coding practices has been formulated by the Software Engineering Centre of the Japanese Information-Technology Promotion Agency. The coding practices are designed to assist in the production of consistently high quality source code, regardless...

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MISRA (Motor Industry Safety Reliability Association) is a collaboration between automotive manufacturers, component suppliers and engineering consultancies which seeks to promote best practice and commonality in the development of safety-related automotive electronic and other embedded systems thro...

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In response to the increased use of electronic systems within the industrial automation and particularly in recognition of their application to safety critical functions, the IEC 61508 standard has been created in order to comply with needs specific to the application sector of electrical / electron...

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The extensive use of electronic devices in medical industry and as these electronic products has become more and more dependent on embedded software. The reliability and the associated risk of the embedded software's used within the device have become important.

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CERT C conformance with the LDRA tool suite.

In response to the increased use of electronic systems within the automotive industry and particularly in recognition of their application to safety critical functions, the ISO 26262 standard has been created in order to comply with needs specific to the application sector of electrical / electronic...

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