Topic: DO-178B Plan for Software Aspects of Certification (PSAC)

Audience: Management and Software Engineers

Length 1-Day

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Part 1 – Overview of the Process

• FAA Overview
• RTCA/DO-178B
• Overall Process
• Airworthiness Requirements
• System Operational Requirements
• SYSTEM LIFE CYCLE PROCESSES
• System Safety Assessment Process
• System Requirements Allocated to Software feed-down
• Software Levels feed-down
• Design Constraints feed-down
• Hardware Definition feed-down
• SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE PROCESSES (DO-178B)
• Software Planning Process ( DO-178B Section 4)
• PSAC, SDP, SVP, SCMP, SQAP, SRS, SDS, SCS, reviews
• Software Development Processes (DO-178B Section 5)
• SRD, SDD, CODE, Integration, Trace, reviews
• Integral Processes
• SW Verification (DO-178B Section 6)
• SW Configuration Management (DO-178B Section 7)
• SW Quality Assurance (DO-178B Section 8)
• Certification Liaison (DO-178B Section 9)
• Fault Containment Boundaries feed-back
• Error Sources Identified/Eliminated feed-back
• Software Requirements & Architecture feed-back

Part 2 - The PSAC Content in Detail

• SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE
• Project Rigor
• Software Leveling

·        PSAC Contents

• Title Page
• Signature Page – Stake Holders
• Revision History
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Purpose, Scope, References, Acronyms
• System Overview
• System Functions
• Functions Allocated to Hardware & Diagram
• Functions Allocated to Software
• Safety Features
• Software Overview
• Software Architecture & Diagram
• Software Functions
• Interfaces
• Partitioning, Redundancy, MVDS
• Timing & Scheduling
• Fault Tolerance, Failure Detection, Safety Monitoring
• Coding Languages
• Certification Considerations
• Certification Basis
• Design Assurance Level
• DO-178B Objectives Fulfilled by the Company
• DO-178B Independence
• Software Life Cycle
• Planning, Requirements, Design, ……………………
• Software Life Cycle Data (Table)
• Title, Approval, DO-178B Reference, Submit to
• Schedule
• Major Milestones
• Plans, Requirements, Design, Code, Test, ……..
• Additional Considerations
• Alternate Means of Compliance
• Tool Qualification
• Previously-Developed Software
• Option-Selectable Software
• User-Modifiable Software
• Commercial of the Shelf Software
• Field Loadable Software
• Multiple-Version Dissimilar Software
• Product Service History
• Verification Environment
• Development Environment
• Supplier Control
• Requirements Responsibility
• Other Assurance Requirements
• Customer Extra Requirements
• Software Complexity
• Static Code Analysis
• Safety Subset of Selected Programming Language

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