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Evaluating Safety-Certifiable Computing For Tomorrow 's Avionics
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CONCLUSION
Safety cer tification, a long-time requirement for
commercial aircraft, is also now needed for many
defense platforms and autonomous vehicles. New
applications are raising the bar for safety-cer tifiable
processing, adding requirements for converging
applications, direct suppor t of HD imager y and vast
increases in processing power, enough to deliver real-
time response for AI and machine learning functions.
At the same time safety-cer tifiable processing demands
are multiplying, the most widely deployed architecture
choice, PowerPC, is nearing EOL; designers must select
a new architecture. Mercur y evaluated the Intel and
ARM options using a comprehensive set of technical and
business criteria, with The Intel processor family as the
clear choice for high-per formance
applications. Mercur y continuously
works closely with technology par tners
and customers in developing innovative
avionic computing solutions.
BUILTSAFE
Mercury BuiltSAFE™ technologies are modular,
COTS elements, complete with proven and reusable
certification services and artifacts that meet the
highest Design Assurance Level (DAL) objectives
of DO- 178C and DO-254. They save time and
cost while decreasing risk in the development
of mission computing, avionics, networking
and datalink/communications systems.
Mercury 's expertise and experience in safety certifiable
solutions has been built on successful execution of
dozens of programs over three decades. This domain
knowledge is the foundation of boards, subsystems
and software with BuiltSAFE. Our rugged, safety
certifiable building blocks have backwards compatibility
and are designed with a top-down approach for
interoperability and ease of pre-integration.
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