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Avionics Certification: A Complete Guide to DO-178 (Software), DO-254 (Hardware) | 
| Author: Vance Hilderman And Tony Baghai
Creators: Len Buckwalter, Avionics Communications Inc.
Publisher: Avionics Communications Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $95.00
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 66234
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 244
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 1885544251
EAN: 9781885544254
ASIN: 1885544251
Publication Date: February 5, 2007
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Product Description
This book explains the most critical safety certification required by commercial and military aircraft. The authors describe each step in creating and submitting formal documents for government approval. Their advice is highly practical, acquired over 20 years of performing successful certifications now flying aboard every major airliner and many military aircraft. The book includes dozens of real-life anecdotes to show where applicants go wrong, fall victim to common myths and waste time with misconceptions. The authors approach avoids the abstract by delivering clear advice on such practical matters as budgets, staff members, tools, programming languages and schedules. They give numerous rules-of-thumb for guiding the reader along what can otherwise be an arduous path to certification. Although the book deals with each milestone of a program, the authors point out, We don t teach regulations, but how to think like the FAA! That approach has worked for scores of companies, helping avoid damaging overruns in budgets and schedules. As DO-178 (software) and DO-254 (hardware) certification become established in aviation, they are spreading to other industries, such transportation, medical instruments and power generation. As in aviation, these technologies are now in the digital world, and need to meet high standards of safe operation demanded for aircraft. Increasingly, these other industries are required to meet DO-178/254 certification. As the authors explain, the official DO-178 and DO-254 documents are not only vague and non-specific, but have to be! The reason is, they need to apply to a wide range of systems. The authors meet the challenge by skillfully interpreting the intent of the documents. They have been doing it for years in world-wide seminars that have trained more people than all other seminars combined. Their book is the first text on this critical subject. Contents of "Avionics Certification" 1. Introduction 2. Real World of DO-178B 3. Planning the Project 4. Criticality Levels 5. What is Certified ? 6. Cost Vs Benefits 7. Military Certification 8. Getting Started 9. Safety Assessment 10. Planning, Development and Correctness 11. Quality Assurance Plan 12. Configuration Management 13. Software Development Plan 14. System Requirements| 15. Software Design 16. Unit Testing 17. Software Testing 18. Structural Coverag 19. Test and Tools 20. DO-254 (Hardware) 21. Hardware Design Life Cycle 22. Gap Analysis 23. Verification 24. Project Organization 25. PSAC 26. Tool Qualification 27. Software Design Aspects 28. Cost Estimation and Metrics Glossary
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
One of a Kind January 8, 2009
R. Allen
This is the only book of its type in the industry. Excellent information for those developing software and systems for the Avionics industry.
Not just a guide October 20, 2008
Reiner Alheit (Ulm, Germany)
A very helpful book for newcomers in the area of Avionics Certification.
A number of aha-experiences when reading the book.
I recommend an extension to DO278 (CNS/ATM approval).
Space for improvement: remove typos and make list of abbrevations (used in the book) complete.
 Light at the end of the certification tunnel June 2, 2008
Hanseatic Aviator
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While I was reading the Do178B specification and trying to understand what it meant, I did not see the project happening. After finishing the book I think I know.
An excellent guide for avionic certification newbie's.
Perfect for all users .... April 10, 2008
Neu Mum
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having been around this topic for years, I found it extremely confusing till I got this book. You can be an advanced user of DO178 or DO-254, and still find very useful data in this volume. If you are an entry level or somewhat familiar with the topic, it is a gold mine of data.
A Worthwhile Read March 24, 2008
J. Milender (Jamestown, ND)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Being relatively new to the DO-178B scene and having struggled with interoperating 178B this book gave some much needed real world insight into it. I have attended the 178B training offered by RTCA and while it was also very good I wish I would have read this book first as I feel I would have gotten a lot more from the class.
A much more enjoyable read then I had expected give the subject matter.
I only wish I would have had it 4 years ago when I started working with 178B as it would have saved me a lot of frustration and time.
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