AVAITION TECHNOLOGY ---     RTCA/DO-254 AVIATION HARDWARE DEVELOPMENT

RTCA/DO-254, DESIGN ASSURANCE GUIDANCE FOR AIRBORNE ELECTRONIC HARDWARE is a document providing guidance for the development of airborne electronic hardware, published by RTCA, Incorporated.

Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware is a civil aviation guidance for the development and certification and controlling of programmable logic devices (PLDs).

http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/archive/complex-hardware-development-for-aircraft-systems-using-rtca-do-254-eurocae-ed-80/44548

RTCA DO-254 has been given the status of a "de-facto" standard by the FAA as a result of Advisory Circular 20-152, in relation to the certification (and hence development) of programmable logic devices such as FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays), CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) and ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits). 

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/technology-onepagers/hardware_development.html 

Abdullah Alhumaidi

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