DO-254 Ecosystem Aldec understands the challenges involved in attaining DO-254 compliance. DO-254's success requires achieving compliance via the most productive path with the most productive tools. That is why Aldec establishes DO-254 Partner Ecosystem to provide a highly interoperable tool suite to mutual avionic design engineering teams. Together with the partners not only we offer the most productive path and tools, but more importantly we can help avoid common pitfalls and mistakes. DO-254 DER Services Randall Fulton, is an FAA Consultant DER with 33 years of Electrical Engineering experience emphasizing software and electronic hardware development and verification. Mr. Fulton has a BSEE from the Pennsylvania State University & earned his FAA DER Read more credentials in software & PLD while working at Boeing Commercial Aircraft. As a DER, Mr. Fulton has had approval authority for PLDs since 1997 and has worked numerous Part 23 and Part 25 certification programs with FPGA, ASIC and software. Mr. Fulton co-taught the DO-254 practitioners course for RTCA in Washington D.C. (2006-2009) and is also an instructor for the Airborne Electronic Hardware Job Functions class for the FAA at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. Mr. Fulton’s recent projects with DO-254 include the primary flight controls actuation for the Boeing 787-8, lateral control electronics for the Boeing 747-8, spoiler and flap systems for the Learjet 85, input/output modules for Rockwell Collins ProFusion integrated modular avionics (IMA) and commercial off the shelf data packages for graphics processors used in display systems. For more information visit http://softwairassurance.com DO-254 Engineering Services and IP Cores Provider SafeCore Devices offers DO-254 certifiable IP Cores and provides engineering services for all stages of the DO-254 process: planning, requirements capture, design, implementation and V&V. SafeCore provides a high quality testbench that can be used in conjunction Read more with Aldec's DO-254/CTS to perform the verification on the target FPGA hardware with a minimal effort. SafeCore’s DO-254 certifiable IP Cores can be quickly integrated in the customer's DO-254 flow (to any DAL). These IP cores have been thoroughly tested through simulation and in-hardware testing using Aldec's DO-254/CTS and include a comprehensive documentation data package. For more information visit http://www.safecoredevices.com X-Tek Corporation was founded in 1996 and provides engineering consulting and contracting services for ASIC/FPGA development within the aviation, semiconductor, and telecommunications industries, up to DO-254 level-A Read more design and verification standards. X-Tek specializes in DO-254 level-A avionics-component design and verification, device re-engineering, requirements definition and creation, and design-process management and training. X-Tek also provides expert DO-254 triage™ services for companies who require repair of their hardware / systems documentation for DAL-A compliance. X-Tek engineers are expert in the creation of Systematized Verification™ suites which provide scripted testbench operation with automated results-logging, and our designers are experienced in the use of most conventional VHDL/Verilog design, verification, timing-analysis, synthesis, and PAR tools. For more information, contact X-Tek at www.x-tekcorp.com Richland Technologies LLC is an innovator in the field of high performance, small form factor, safety critical and cost effective embedded systems for the commercial and defense aviation industries. RTL leverages a creative portfolio of disruptive hardware and software technologies to make leading edge applications Read more available to pilots and system operators at a fraction of the cost of what industry incumbents traditionally offer using trusted AS9100C and ISO9001:2008 registered quality processes. To learn more, check out our website www.richlandtechnologies.com. Keep in touch with us by following our social media accounts www.twitter.com/R_Technologies and www.linkedin.com/richland-technologies. FPGA Vendors Altera® launched the FPGA industry's first DO-254 development environment for safety-critical solutions and services to companies requiring DO-254 compliance in their avionics systems. Offering DO-254 certifiable solutions enable customers to quickly approve Read more and implement Altera's FPGAs, HardCopy® ASIC, intellectual property (IP) cores and Nios II embedded processor into their avionics and military applications. Altera’s solutions focus on DO-254 levels A, B, C and D compliance. For more information on Altera's DO-254 development environment visit http://www.altera.com/end-markets/military-aerospace/do-254/mil-do-254.html Microsemi® has a 25-year history of providing programmable digital logic solutions to the military and aerospace design community. Microsemi offers high-reliability products, such as the RT ProASIC®3, RTAX-S/SL, and RTAX-DSP product families Read more (for space applications) and the ProASIC3 and ProASIC3EL families, which have successfully been deployed in commercial avionics applications with DO-254 certification to Design Assurance Levels A and B. Actel's extensive portfolio of industry-proven IP cores and best-in-class software tools address the design challenges and needs of emerging military and aerospace applications. Many Actel products are available with military temperature screening (plastic and ceramic packages) or MIL-STD-883 Class B processing (ceramic packages only). For more information visit http://www.actel.com/products/solutions/milaero/DO254.aspx Xilinx® offers the broadest portfolio of COTS (Commercial off the Shelf) solutions with a migration path to defense, and space-grade field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The portfolio includes silicon devices supporting a wide range Read more of operating temperatures and processing levels, from commercial specification in Virtex-6, Spartan®-6 and Spartan-3A FPGAs, to radiation tolerance meeting Class-V requirements in the Virtex®-5Q and Virtex-4QV families, as well as the recently announced rad-hard Virtex-5QV family for space applications. Xilinx avionics solutions include comprehensive tools, papers, and data packages to address key market needs such as DO-254 and NSEU. For more information visit http://www.xilinx.com/esp/aerospace-defense/avionics.htm
