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Kappa optronics has over 40 years of experience with application-specific cameras and vision systems in rugged and certifiable design. It provides innovative vision solutions for day and night operations, ensuring maximum performance for a range of applications and industries including safety-critical avionics applications.
Kappa approached Rapita looking for a solution to replace their existing COTS software verification approach to support verification of their 3D camera software application to DO-178C.
Summary
The challenge
- Replace existing COTS tooling for DO-178C software verification with tooling that integrates with the customer’s development
toolchain and is dependable, robust, and offers excellent qualification support
The solution
- RapiTest and RapiCover integrated with Kappa’s Keil development toolchain for DO-178C-qualifiable functional testing and structural coverage analysis
The benefits
- World class support from the Rapita FAE team; Kappa’s support queries were resolved “unbelievably fast”
- Seamless integration achieved efficiently through collaborative working
- DO-330 qualification kits and a qualified integration service that can be relied upon to meet DO-178C tool qualification requirements efficiently
The challenge
Kappa were developing a 3D camera system to support automated refuelling on the Airbus A330 MRTT, which needed to follow DO-178C design assurance processes. Kappa were using the Keil IDE and Keil debugger to develop and debug their code, which runs on an STM microcontroller. To ensure an efficient verification workflow, Kappa wanted their verification tooling to integrate with their software development toolchain.
Kappa had verification tooling in place already, but were looking for a tool solution that better met their project’s needs. In particular, they were seeking tooling that had enhanced integration capabilities with their software development toolchain, along with improved support and qualification assistance. Crucially, the solution needed to be ready for DO-178C.
The solution
The benefits
By choosing to work with Rapita and use the RVS tool suite, Kappa realized the following benefits:
- World-class support – Kappa’s support queries were resolved “unbelievably fast”, with most queries being resolved within a couple of days, and a new wavefront version of RVS being delivered to Kappa in less than a week when this was required.
- Seamless integration with Kappa’s specific development toolchain – Rapita’s FAE team deployed a fully automated integration that allowed RVS to work alongside Kappa’s existing development toolchain rather than outside it. This was made possible by
RVS’s flexible integration capabilities and Rapita’s expert FAE team. - Qualification you can trust – RVS qualification kits and qualified target integration service made it easier for Kappa to provide the necessary evidence to qualify their use of RVS. RVS qualification kits include over 1200 tests and 180k LOC, have been accepted as standalone evidence of tool robustness in multiple DO-178C DAL A projects, and include qualification of the instrumentation engine and merging coverage results, eliminating the need for expensive manual review.
“We’re really happy that we chose to work with Rapita to enhance our verification tooling. RVS has helped us achieve our DO-178C verification goals efficiently and we were very impressed with the unbelievably fast support from Rapita.”
Paul Staab
Head of Verification and Validation
Kappa Optronics
