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MicroPilot Nears DO-178C Certification
STONY MOUNTAIN, Canada , July 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroPilot Inc. is nearing the end of a five-year effort to achieve DO-178C Design Assurance Level B certification for its upcoming MP2128 autopilot. This certification will simplify the task for operators of RPAS/UAVs to obtain authorization from regulators to conduct missions in higher risk areas where RPAS/UAV operations are currently prohibited, such as over population centres.
DO-178C is a software certification standard for airborne systems. To achieve this level of certification, software must be extensively documented, pass rigorous design reviews, and be extensively tested. As with all Aviation standards, complying with DO-178C is extremely difficult.
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Howard Loewen , president of MicroPilot inc.
A key feature of the MP2128 that enables it to achieve the DO-178C certification standards is the use of an ARINC 653 compliant partitioned operating system. Partitioning allows both certified and uncertified software to execute on the same processor and simplifies the task of certification by greatly reducing the amount of software that requires certification. Partitioning also provides greater flexibility by simplifying the addition of non-safety critical code. Without partitioning, non-safety critical code must be certified as if it were safety critical.
After more than half a decade of work and a process that began with the creation of MicroPilot's XTENDER requirements generation software and trueHWIL simulator, MicroPilot's DO-178C certified MP2128 autopilots are scheduled to be available end of Q2 2020.
For further information - Howard Loewen , info@micropilot.com, +1.204.344.5558, www.micropilot.com
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