How emulation can reduce avionics verification costs: Sim68020
One of the unique challenges of working in the aerospace domain is the need to maintain onboard software for the long lifetimes of many aircraft. For both civil and military aircraft, software must often remain in the field for decades, during which time maintenance and updates may be needed to meet ever increasing demands.
When such software is certified to DO-178 (DO-178A, B or DO-178C), MIL-HDBK (MIL-HDBK-516A, B or MIL-HDBKC) or related guidelines, this means verification environments must also be available for long periods of time.
Multicore timing analysis: to instrument or not to instrument
When making timing measurements of software, there are generally two classes of approach: