DDC-I Best-in-Class RTOS to be Integrated with LDRA Analysis and Test Tools

“The demand for safety-critical software is rapidly expanding beyond traditional aerospace and defense applications into new markets such as telecom, power plants, medical, automotive, and industrial control,” said Greg Rose, Vice President of Marketing at DDC-I. “LDRA’s best-in-class tools perfectly complement our own proven safety-critical RTOS and tool suite. This integration will give developers across a broad range of mission-critical applications the supported platform they need to quickly develop, test and deploy safety-critical software that can be readily certified to the most demanding requirements.”

“The LDRA tool suite has already been used extensively alongside the Deos RTOS for a number of safety-critical projects, including air data units, navigation systems and ground-based augmentation GPS systems,” added Ian Hennell, Operations Director at LDRA. “We look forward to working with DDC-I to achieve an even higher level of integration and to deliver a premier platform that reduces the time and cost associated with developing, testing, deploying, and certifying safety-critical software.”

The LDRA tool suite provides comprehensive automated software testing and code analysis for a broad range of military and aerospace, telecommunications, transportation, power and medical applications. The suite covers the full software development lifecycle, including requirements traceability and programming standards checking (i.e., MISRA-C: 2004, MISRA C++:2008, JSF++ AV and CERT C), code coverage, structural coverage analysis (up to DO-178B Level A), automated unit testing, and test verification.

Deos (DDC-I Embedded Operating System) is the industry’s most robust, highest performance real-time operating system for the safety-critical market. Featuring deterministic real-time response, the memory-protected RTOS employs patented “slack scheduling” to deliver higher CPU utilization than any other safety-critical commercial off the shelf (COTS) RTOS. Deos is the only certifiable time and space (T&S) partitioned COTS RTOS built from the ground up for safety-critical applications. Deos also provides the easiest, lowest cost path of any COTS RTOS to DO-178B Level A certification, the highest level of safety criticality.