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Software Engineering Solutions for Avionics and Support Systems

 

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Software engineering solutions are provided by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) for avionics and support systems, including development and maintenance of:

  • Real-time embedded systems

  • Avionics equipment

  • Automatic test equipment

  • Test program sets

  • PC-based systems

  • Support equipment applications

Development Tools

  • IBM® Rational® ClearCase®

  • IBM® Rational® ClearQuest®

  • IBM® Rational® RequisitePro®

  • IBM® Rational® Software Modeler®

  • Telelogic Rhapsody® Developer Multi-Language

  • Telelogic Rhapsody® Gateway

  • CORBA ORB (OIS ORBexpress® RT) SCA Core Framework (CRC SCARI++)

  • Green Hills INTEGRITY® RTOS

  • Green Hills MULTI® IDE

  • SEA JOVIAL Compiler

  • Ada Compiler

  • Borland® C Compiler

  • LabVIEW™

  • Lab Windows/CVI™

  • Vx Works

  • Microsoft® Visual Studio

  • MATLAB®

Software Engineering and Architecture

  • Embedded application development

  • Windows model-based design/GUI application development

  • PC-based software (desktop and embedded)

  • Standard and custom multi-tasking real-time operating systems (RTOS)

  • Windows/Integrity/VxWorks/Linux and Unix operating systems

  • Rapid prototyping

  • Software re-engineering

  • Software rehosting

  • Legacy system support and migration

Standards and Capabilities

  • ISO 9001:2000

  • MIL-STD-498

  • Embedded systems

  • Embedded avionics

  • Graphical user interfaces

  • Modeling and simulation

  • Technology upgrades

Languages and Processes

  • C/C++/C#

  • Visual Basic

  • Ada

  • JOVIAL

  • Assembly

  • UML

  • OOA/OOD

  • HP and HT Basic

  • Atlas

  • Test Basic

Additional Capabilities

SwRI has extensive experience in evaluating, developing, deploying and verifying embedded systems. The staff maintains a system focus and excels in forming small, interdisciplinary teams to solve difficult real-time and embedded systems problems for clients. SwRI provides services ranging from turnkey system development to system engineering and system integration services, to short-term consulting agreements.

 

Our clients choose SwRI because we offer:

  • Demonstrated software and technology expertise

  • Track record of delivering innovative solutions

  • More than 25 years of software development experience

  • System architecture platform approach

  • Proven software development process

  • Design for low cost

  • 100% focus on client success

SwRI has earned its reputation for innovation and design success by consistently exceeding client expectations and delivering products, support and services that are geared toward success.

  • Project planning and control

    Develop and document planning information for software engineering process
     

  • High-level design

    Develop software architecture, high-level design and related activities that initiate design process

     

  • Detail design

    Design software to lower level of detail and continue implementation of activities begun during high-level design phase

     

  • Core and unit/string test

    Implement software design and perform thorough unit and string testing of code

     

  • Test support

    Address all tasks associated with support of testing performed by non-software development personnel

For more information about software engineering solutions for avionics and support systems, or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Christopher E. Camargo at ccamargo@swri.org or (210) 522-2095.

 

avionicssoftware.swri.org

 

Contact Information

Christopher E. Camargo

Software Engineering Solutions for Avionics and Support Systems

(210) 522-2095

ccamargo@swri.org

avionicssoftware.swri.org

Related Terminology

aircraft systems engineering

integration and testing support

prototyping

real-time embedded systems maintenance

avionics equipment

automatic test equipment

PC-based systems

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December 28, 2012