HARDWARE

We develop embedded hardware and complex electronics hardware  for safety critical applications in compliance with international approved certification standards, such as RTCA/DO-254, RTCA/DO-160, SAE ARP4761.
The scope of our expertise is spread over the complete development V-cycle for safety critical equipment, board electronics and complex electronics. We have established a very high safety and electronics qualification expertise within our team.

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THE KEY ELEMENTS OF OUR PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES ARE: 

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• Definition of concepts and architectures for safety critical applications
   

• Preparation of specifications of functional requirements

  • Establishment of specifications including requirements validation in accordance with DO-254 rules with advanced requirement management tools (e.g. DOORS)

  • Establishment of all relevant interface control documents (HW/SW ICD, Electrical ICD, Mechanical ICD)
     

• Design of electronic boards incl. complex electronic HW (CEH) with latest design methods and tools (for example Actel, Altera and Xilinx; Mentor Graphics, Zuken, …)

  • for system controls including processing boards, mixes signal acquisition and controlling boards and power control and power supply

  • EMI filtering and interconnect boards

  • Modular VHDL code designed/verified based on basic functions / IP cores (e.g. Arinc-429, UART, DSP functions, PID controller, Resolver, LVDT, ADC interfaces)

  • Functions for complex signal conditioning, actuator drive logic, communication interfaces, parallel arithmetic unit for high speed signal conditioning, very low power CPLDs

  • System on programmable chip integration of processor IPs (CPU) and peripherals (memory, communication interfaces) into a single chip (FPGA)
     

• Verification and qualification of electronics in accordance with international aerospace and industry standards (e.g. DO-254, DO-160, MIL-STD-810) and customer requirements.

  • Establishment of test procedures and qualification procedures

  • Establishment of specific test tools

  • Execution of verification and qualification activities including the applicable reports
     

• Management and establishment of all safety and reliability objectives  according to industrial standards (e.g. SAE ARP4761, SAE ARP5580, MIL-HDBK-217)

  • Fault Tree Analysis, Reliability predictions (e.g. MIL-HDBK-217 F, MIL-HDBK-217 PLUS, PRISM), FMEA, FMECA, Common Mode Analysis and SEU / MBU analysis
     

• Management expertise of electronics development including supplier and sub-tiers including low cost countries
   

• Experience with DO-254 Certification

  • Several DAL A projects with the following authorities successfully performed: EASA, CEAT, WTD61, ANAC