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The Future of COTS: How the Industry is

Evolving to Support Safety Certification

Requirements

Mary Beth Barrans

June 20, 2018

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

Background: Primes Driven to Use COTS


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:

Trend: Change in End Customer Needs


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?

Challenges Faced by Traditional COTS with New Trends


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.

Evolution: A Different COTS Business Model

Business model is applicable to COTS modules


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

Target User


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:


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)

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.

Case Study: When to Buy Hardware IP vs Traditional COTS Boards?


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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COTS-D Costs COTS Costs

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$9M+ cost reduction

Costs reduced after

only 110 ship sets

HW IP

CoreAVI Innovation: COTS-D Hardware IP


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.

Model of Success


Abaco Systems to Offer CoreAVI’s COTS-D DO-254/ED-80 DAL A

Certifiable Hardware IP Solutions to Military and Civil Avionics Markets

What COTS-D Components and Certification Evidence Does CoreAVI Provide?


• 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

What Does COTS-D Provide for Safety Requirements?


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

About Core Avionics & Industrial Inc. (CoreAVI)


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

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LynxOS-178 DAL A certified RTOS

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CoreAVI OpenGL SC graphics drivers

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drivers

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