RAPITA SYSTEMS

Avionics manufacturers are increasingly making use of the improved size, weight and power of multicore processors. The extra computational power these processors provide compared to traditional single-core processors coupled with dwindling availability of single core processors mean the aerospace industry must adapt to their use... DO-178 guidance was created to support the development of avionics software for single-core processors. Software running on multicore processors can be subject to interference caused by contention for shared resources and other hardware idiosyncrasies that are not present in single-core processors.

Also known as: CAST-32A