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DO-254 is an evolving industry safety certification standard for the development of airborne hardware devices. DO-254 applies the same rigor as the more mature DO-178B for embedded airborne software. The standard is defined in the RTCA Document RTCA/DO-254, titled "Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware".

DO-254 was developed by the avionics industry to establish hardware deployment guidelines for developers, installers, and users, when microcomputer hardware, including FPGAs, PLDs, ASICs, and LRUs are deployed in aircraft equipment designs.

Benefits

The DO254 Productivity Toolset offers practical structured guidelines derived from the RTCA-DO254 Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware.

1. Extensive template library jumpstarts time critical projects:

• PHAC template.
• Additional templates including (HAS, Hardware Test Reports, etc.).

2. Drastically reduces reviewing time using

• Automated and interactive requirements traceability.
• Automated documentation generation.
• Accurate document and project data review.
• Various DO-254 documents and data templates.

3. Easy integration and deployment

• Light weight and non-intrusive. Promotes the use of standard tools (Word, Excel, pdf, Framemaker, Visio, etc.).
• Easily fits into any project workflow.
• Interfaces with widely-used configuration management tools such as Clearcase, PVCS, and Synergy.
• Interfaces with widely-used requirements management tools including Doors, Requisite Pro, and Slate.

User Interfaces

Knowledge Database

• Template library including PHAC, HAS, test case and test reports.
• Review procedures sets including checklists and review forms.
• Standards that formalize the DO-254 rules, procedures, and methods.
• User-defined or internal standards can be incorporated.

Requirements Traceability Capability

• Provides system, hardware, and derived requirements coverage and impact analysis.
• Provides traceability between requirements, design, and verification data.
• Provides partial requirements validation (standards rules applied).
• Immediate indication of a new, changed, or removed requirement.
• Internal report generator (default verification and traceability matrix reports included).

Review Support

• Automated document and data review capability using interactive checklists.
• Provides issue tracking capability.
• Provides interactive review templates (design and plan reviews).
• Provides analysis reports (review reports).

• Manage DO-254 activities efficiently and effectively.
• Easy setup for existing DO-254 projects: customizable requirements representation, customizable rules for requirements validation, customizable checklists, etc...
• Easy setup for new DO-254 projects: project wizard, pre-defined requirements standards, default checklists, templates.
• All project data and documents are represented in a common framework for both the traceability and review purposes.
• Reports layout and content is fully customizable to satisfy individual project needs.
• Documents templates, standards, checklists and review forms may be used outside the framework.

• Plans: Plan for Hardware Aspect of Certification, Hardware Design Plan, Hardware Validation Plan, Hardware Verification Plan, Hardware Configuration Management Plan, Hardware Process Assurance Plan.
• Standards: Hardware Requirements Standards, Hardware Design Standards, VHDL Coding Standards, Validation and Verification Standards, Hardware Archive Standards.
• Project documents: Hardware Requirements Document, Hardware Design Document, Hardware Accomplishment Summary.
• Validation and Verification environment: Hardware Test and Analysis Procedures, Hardware Test and Analysis Reports, Hardware Design Reviews, Validation report, Traceability data.
• Review material: checklists for hardware life cycle data and documents.

System Requirements