Safety Certification and Security
A couple things that are imperative in society and in just plain life – safety and security – are just as important in the embedded computing realm. From avionics to automobiles to spacecraft to the manufacturing plant, we all like to know we're safe from physical harm caused by ... Moremechanical equipment failures. In the avionics realm, electronics safety criticality is ensured by the FAA's safety certification standards called DO-178B and DO-254, for example. In the outside plant or central office, NEBS compliance is likewise vital. However, in the security-critical world, military Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and net-centric systems used by DoD Command and Control (C2) must be hack-proof to protect our soldiers' lives – and our national security. Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) and virtualization-scheme partitioning can be used to help prevent security infractions and work by invoking a separate partition for each application, thus separating applications with varying classification levels and providing users access only to the applications for which they are authorized. And lastly, though perhaps not necessary for all secure applications, Common Criteria certification additionally means the application has gone through rigorous security testing.

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Ensuring Product Integrity with Intel(r) Boot Guard
January 31, 2019 — Concurrent TechnologiesConcurrent Technologies, a leading supplier of processor solutions for demanding environments, now ensures that all their processor boards based on recent Intel(r) chipsets are running the correct, authorized firmware having implemented Intel Boot Guard.
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Mercury Systems Unveils RES Trust Rackmount Trusted Computing Product Line
December 13, 2018 — Mercury SystemsNew EnterpriseSeries servers feature trusted supply chains and built-in security options in support of DoD Defense Exportability Features initiatives
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Optimizing avionics reliability with dissimilar redundant architectures
December 06, 2018 — Rick Hearn, Curtiss-Wright Defense SolutionsThe potential consequences and acceptable probability of failure of an avionics system dictate the Design Assurance Level (DAL) that must be met in order for it to be certified for flight. The key computing elements of a system – such as the single-board computers (SBCs), graphics cards, and operating systems built into a flight-control computer or flight display – must all be designed with safety in mind and endure stringent testing to prove they can meet the required DAL. ARP4754 (Guidelines for Development of Civil Aircraft and Systems – Figure 1) is used by avionics designers as they allocate functions to systems and assign DALs to hardware and software for their safety-certifiable systems.
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Sealevel COM Express Custom Carrier Board Solutions
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Video: Computer Architectures for Embedded Safety-Critical Applications
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GPS Simulation: See How it Works
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Curtiss-Wright Controls Press Conference – Defense Solutions Announced
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Portable, reliable, and efficient concurrency: Ravenscar Ada tasking and the FACE safety profiles
November 20, 2018 — Dr. Benjamin Brosgol, AdaCoreAirborne systems that need a small footprint or must comply with an industry assurance standard such as DO-178B [1] or DO-178C [2] incur size and complexity costs in the run-time support libraries. To answer these needs, the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Technical Standard [4] has designated the Ravenscar subset of the Ada programming language’s tasking features as one of the acceptable concurrency approaches for a software component that must satisfy safety and/or security assurance requirements.
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Mercury Systems Announces Defense Industry’s First Military-Grade DDR4 Devices in High-Volume Production
September 19, 2018 — Mercury SystemsDMEA-accredited facility in Phoenix, Ariz. successfully completes qualification of DDR4 memory devices critical for next-generation military computing systems
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