Hardware certification for real-time safety-critical systems: State of the art

This paper discusses issues related to the RTCA document DO-254Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware and its consequences for hardware certification. In particular, problems related to circuits’ compliance with DO-254 in avionics and other industries are considered. Extensive literature review of the subject is given, including current views on and experiences of chipmanufacturers and EDA industry with qualification of hardware design tools, including formal approaches to hardware verification. Some results of the authors’ own study on tool qualification are presented. 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 386 226 6888. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A.J. Kornecki), [email protected] (J. Zalewski). 1 Tel.: +1 239 590 7317.