SwRI: Software Engineering Solutions for Avionics and Support Systems

	SwRI scientist monitors real-time simulator.

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 SwRI offers:

• 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 capabilities at SwRI or how you can contract with SwRI, please contact Christopher E. Camargo at ccamargo@swri.org or (210) 522-2095.