The Top 3 Types of Information Typically Missing from DO-178C Plans
What are the most common things missing from DO-178C plans? A template can help. Continue Reading →
Category: DER Advice
Live Chat Mar 30 & 31: Women in Aerospace Engineering
Tammy Reeve, President – Patmos Engineering Services and Airworthiness Certification Services, LLC will be joining the two day live chat on Women in Aerospace Engginering and will be addressing questions such as: Continue Reading →
Is it OK to Provide or Use Hardware COTS IP in Avionics Designs?
The use of commercial off-the-shelf intellectual property (COTS IP, also known as IP cores or simply IP) has been exploding in every sector of the electronics industry for decades. Silicon Continue Reading →
How AMC/AC 20-189 Stops “Un-Accomplishment Summaries” in DO-178C or DO-254 programs
How Can the New AMC/AC 20-189 Help Manage Problem Reports in DO-178C and DO-254 Projects? Your DO-178C or DO-254 Accomplishment Summary becomes a “un” accomplishment summary when too many open Continue Reading →
Overarching Properties
The Overarching Properties initiative seeks to provide flexibility and efficiency in the certification process. “Overarching Properties,” previously known as “Meta Objectives working group,” was first publicly discussed at the 2016 Continue Reading →
What is the Impact of AMC 20-152A on Your DO-254 Project?
I have some exciting news for all the companies, teams and engineers working on airborne electronics products. On July 29, 2020, EASA released the long-awaited and very important document, AMC Continue Reading →
The Implications of Order 8110.105A
The regulatory world is in constant flux. This is due to ongoing change in technology as well as advancement and better understanding of safety related aspects for aviation. You might Continue Reading →
Bottom Up vs. Top Down
One of the things I see and hear is that we can “finish that certification stuff later.” Many people believe that you can add the compliance data items to the Continue Reading →
Tool Controlled Artifacts and Evidence
Section 7 of DO-254 tells us “The configuration management process is intended to provide the ability to consistently replicate the configuration item, regenerate the information if necessary and modify the Continue Reading →
What are Streamlining Processes?
This blog is a little different from my past ones. I was invited to participate in the “Streamlining Assurance Processes Workshop” (which internally we called the “Meta Objectives working group”). Continue Reading →