Leveraging Pre-Certified RTOS Artifacts to Accelerate Type Certification: The COTS Advantage

How commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) pre-certified operating system evidence packages shave years off aircraft flight certification.

The Immense Cost of Operating System Certification

Independently certifying a custom real-time operating system to DO-178C DAL A requires generating over 50,000 pages of test evidence, traceability matrices, and compiler verification logs, costing tens of millions of dollars.

COTS Certification Evidence Packages

AvionicsPlatform delivers turnkey DO-178C DAL A evidence packages: all test cases, code reviews, MC/DC test runs, and life-cycle data are pre-audited and packaged for immediate integration into the airframe manufacturer's system certification.

Streamlining the Stage of Involvement (SOI) Audits

Aviation authorities recognize pre-certified COTS RTOS packages, allowing FAA and EASA DERs to grant immediate credit for underlying operating system layers, focusing review efforts exclusively on the novel flight application code.

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