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The Future of COTS: How the Industry is
Evolving to Support Safety Certification
Requirements
Mary Beth Barrans
June 20, 2018
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What is Changing in the Industry?
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Trend: EASA ED-80/ RTCA DO-254 Compliance for Military Platforms
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Military Primes first needed to show compliance with:
Today…there is an accelerating momentum toward Military/Commercial avionics convergence: adopting DO-178 and DO-254 worldwide. Today, fighter jets (Joint Strike Fighter, T-50, etc), cargo planes (C-130, C-17, A400M, etc.) and UAV/UAS’s (formally called RPAS: Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) are requiring compliance to DO-178 and, increasingly, to DO-254. ~Vance Hildeman, AFuzion
and now…
for software for hardware
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Background: Primes Driven to Use COTS
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Is more cost effective than custom designs
Has a faster time to market
Has high reliability
Is lower risk
Can incorporate the latest, high performance technology into
longer program lifecycles
Why? COTS:
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Trend: Change in End Customer Needs
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Changing operational needs = commodity COTS products no longer sufficient
ED-80 / DO-254 certification is needed
While providing a fully ruggedized solution, traditional COTS was not
providing a ruggedized solution that is ED-80 / DO-254 certifiable.
Key Issue with Traditional COTS?
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Challenges Faced by Traditional COTS with New Trends
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It’s new – suppliers must catch-up on safety certification skills and expertise
COTS suppliers changing their systems and processes
Those costs get passed along to the customer in the form of products and
services.
Difficult to reverse engineer existing COTS modules to meet high DALs
Increase in in-country manufacturing requirements
Aircraft Export -
Countries that have not traditionally exported aircraft outside their country
want to, but need to adhere to safety certification requirements.
Requires expertise on more stringent requirements, especially in Europe.
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Evolution: A Different COTS Business Model
Business model is applicable to COTS modules
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ED-80 / DO-254 Hardware IP Procurement
Procurement Manufacture Certify MaintainDesignVendor
Integrator
How Does It Work?
Integrator procures DO-254 certifiable COTS Hardware IP designs from a vendor
If desired, integrator can configure design to specific form factor or capabilities
Integrator manufactures modules at their own manufacturing facility, or one of their choosing
Integrator uses their own existing resources (test, lifecycle, etc.) to maintain program and reduce costs
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Target User
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Their own electronic assembly manufacturing capabilities
An infrastructure to build and support electronic assemblies
A customer need for DO-254 and DO-178C certifiable solutions
Systems solutions supporting standard form factor boards.
The Hardware IP Business Model is Particularly Well-Suited To Integrators Who Have:
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Affordability
Lower cost than COTS or
developing in-house
Time-To-Market
Same Time to Market
as traditional COTS
Certification
Products &
technology that
have certification
pedigree
Technology
The latest
technology
available
Benefits of COTS Hardware IP Business Model
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Flexibility
Configure to your own form
factor and capabilities
Build as many or as few
modules as needed
Use Existing Resources
Use existing lifecycle,
manufacturing, test,
component, and repair
services
Delivery
Control module
delivery schedule
Home Advantage
Build and repair in
your own country – no
permits, no delays
Benefits (cont’d)
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Snapshot: Traditional COTS vs. COTS Hardware IP
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Traditional COTS COTS Hardware IP
Form Physical hardware Design IP
Cost Higher cost due to COTS vendor in-house design
Cost of IP is less than the cost for anybody to develop it – based on COTS pricing of IP only
Safety Certification Commodity hardware, very few modules developed to safety certification standards
All modules can be developed to ED-80 / DO-254 DAL A standards
Services and Support Requires costly purchase of services for long time support
Integrator can reduce costs by using their existing resources and services
Pedigree Often dependent on success of reverse engineering for Safety Cert
No need to reverse engineer – built from planning phase to product acceptance using a
process that is built to DO-254 / ED-80 guidelines for both North America and European
use.
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Case Study: When to Buy Hardware IP vs Traditional COTS Boards?
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Consider the following program assumptions:
A typical 3U VPX SBC product @
$7000+
A typical XMC graphics product @
$4000+
The program will run for at
least 10 years
The program requires at least
1500 SBCs and 1500 graphics
controllers
In-house manufacturing costs
are approx. 40% of the cost of a
COTS module
How do the costs compare?
At what volume is Hardware IP more cost effective?
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Example (Cont’d) Hardware IP vs COTS Boards
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COTS-D Costs COTS Costs
110
$9M+ cost reduction
Costs reduced after
only 110 ship sets
HW IP
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CoreAVI Innovation: COTS-D Hardware IP
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COTS Design IP for DO-254 Single Board Computers and Graphics hardware
Complete hardware IP packages to enable manufacture, support and repair
Industry standard form factors including evidence to support the highest level of system safety
Supported with firmware and RTOS Board Support Packages with evidence to support the
highest level of DO-178C certification.
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Model of Success
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Abaco Systems to Offer CoreAVI’s COTS-D DO-254/ED-80 DAL A
Certifiable Hardware IP Solutions to Military and Civil Avionics Markets
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What COTS-D Components and Certification Evidence Does CoreAVI Provide?
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• DO-254/ED-80 Evidence – IDAL A
• CBA
• PLD
• Firmware (DO-178C)
• FMEA
• Safety Manual
• DO-178C/ED-12C Evidence – DAL A
• Board Support Package (BSP)
• Drivers
Certification
Evidence
Component
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What Does COTS-D Provide for Safety Requirements?
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Minimize Complexity
COTS-D designs attempt to minimize
complexity while providing a COTS product
meeting functional requirements for many
applications
Item DAL A Focus
COTS-D is designed, and certification
evidence available, for IDAL A (unless
otherwise identified)
Meeting superset of EASA and
FAA guidance
Safety Monitors
Independent watch-dogs
Clock monitors
Voltage monitors
Temperature monitors
Safety Assessment Data
Clearly identified safety requirements
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Safety Manual
Solution Assessment
CoreAVI works with systems team to help
assess solutions
Flexible Design
COTS-D design changes are possible
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About Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. (CoreAVI)
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Embedded graphics, and video drivers to enable RTOS and advanced safety critical display systems
COTS-D Safety certifiable Hardware IP solutions
Support for industry leading GPUs and SoCs
Complete DO-178C / ED-12C (up to Level A) certification packages and GPU safety data, GPU Safety Monitor
20 year component supply programs
HQ
Tampa, Florida,
USA
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Waterloo, Ontario,
CanadaOttawa, Ontario,
Canada
Founded
2005
Worldwide
Sales and
Support
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Come See Our Joint Demos in our Partners’ Booths
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DDC-I - Booth B10a
NAII safety-critical COSA solution
DDC-I’s Deos™ DO-178 certifiable safety- critical
RTOS
CoreAVI OpenGL graphics
ENSCO IData®
Lynx Software Technologies –
Booth A11
LynxOS-178 DAL A certified RTOS
Curtis-Wright VPX3-131 and XMC-715
CoreAVI OpenGL SC graphics drivers
ENSCO iData HMI
Presagis – Booth A22
UAV Ground Control Station
Presagis VAPS XT HMI tool
CoreAVI OpenGL SC graphics
drivers
Wind River VxWorks RTOS
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Come See Our Booth – B38
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Plug-in ready Mission Computer
CoreAVI OpenGL SC 1.0.1 and 2.0
Curtiss-Wright SBC and graphics module
building blocks
Wind River VxWorks 6.9 or VxWorks 653 V2.5
ANSYS SCADE Display Multitouch Demo
CoreAVI OpenGL SC drivers
NXP i.MX 6 processor
Wind River VxWorks
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