Making DO with Safety Standards

Making DO with Safety Standards

Nov 14, 2024

In the first of a two-part article, we look at the evolution of DO-178C and its influence on safety critical software

In 2023, Patrica Lustiq and Gill Ringland proposed the concept of Fractured Backbones. A backbone is an agreed set of rules which are shared and support the way that things work.

In today’s modern world, software is the digital backbone responsible for enabling a milieu of systems, from cash registers to satellites. Safety critical software is a class of software, often embedded in systems, where failures of the software can cause failures in systems that can result in damage to the system, environment, or property, as well as injury or loss of life of the people using these systems, or substantial financial and reputational damage.

As Gary Gilliland, Vice President of Marketing at DDC-I states, this type of software is developed and tested with the utmost care to prevent failures and manage or isolate failures in such a way as to protect the system.

Read the complete Article

Back to the Overview