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Meeting DAL A Challenges with Dissimilar Redundant Architecture

Meeting DAL A Challenges with Dissimilar Redundant Architecture

This white paper examines how building a system with a dissimilar redundant architecture can help overcome the challenges of meeting DO-254/178 DAL A requirements.

05/22/2024
Certifying Multi-Core Processing Following AMC 20-193/AC 20-193 Objectives

Certifying Multi-Core Processing Following AMC 20-193/AC 20-193 Objectives

This white paper examines the key challenges multi-core processors present in safety-certifiable systems, and the traditional and newer, more effective techniques for alleviating them to ensure MCP-based systems will safely perform their intended functions.

04/01/2024
Green Hills Software INTEGRITY-178 tuMP

COTS Hardware Supporting Green Hills INTEGRITY-178 tuMP Brochure

01/16/2022
Optimizing Cybersecurity on Today's Connected Military and Commercial Aircraft

Optimizing Cybersecurity on Today's Connected Military and Commercial Aircraft

System developers must safeguard tactical information exchange and the integrity of command and control links between ground stations and airborne platforms.

10/29/2020
Optimal Multicore Processing for Safety-Critical Applications

Optimal Multicore Processing for Safety-Critical Applications

This white paper explores the performance and SWaP benefits of multicore processors and their challenges in safety-critical applications, and how to overcome them.

08/28/2020
USFF Mission Processors and Network Switches for ISR UAV Targeting System

USFF Mission Processors and Network Switches for ISR UAV Targeting System

As unmanned vehicles become more powerful and complex, their electronics payloads must adapt to match new mission objectives. This often forces aerospace and defense system integrators to push for reductions in size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C).

03/19/2020
High Speed NAS for a Wide-Area Persistent Surveillance Pod

High Speed NAS for a Wide-Area Persistent Surveillance Pod

TCG HUNTR software installed on a Parvus DuraCOR 8043 mission computer, displayed on a GVDU mission display, provides operators with a rugged, small form factor solution that can be used on the battlefield with minimal training and almost no expertise.

06/20/2019
Protecting Data-at-Rest with NSA CSfC Approved Encryption on a UAV

Protecting Data-at-Rest with NSA CSfC Approved Encryption on a UAV

When a large system integrator needed a SWaP optimized, rugged, network-attached storage system with NSA-approved encryption, a UAV contacted Curtiss-Wright for a trusted, proven solution.

05/23/2019
Upgrading UAV Automatic Landing Subsystems while Reducing Cost and SWaP

Upgrading UAV Automatic Landing Subsystems while Reducing Cost and SWaP

A customer wished to move to the latest and greatest technology without having to change pinouts or cables on the aircraft.

11/27/2018
COTS vs. Custom Graphics for Military Avionics

COTS vs. Custom Graphics for Military Avionics

This white paper looks at the evolution of COTS graphics module design and how it can reduce the cost, complexity, and risk of bespoke custom designs for Military Avionics.

04/03/2017
Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

Overcoming DAL-D Development Pitfalls with Modular Avionics COTS

This case study describes a crash-protected recorder designed by Curtiss-Wright to interface to a Data Management Unit (DMU) for a mid-range commercial airliner that had schedule challenges and changing requirements.

05/27/2015
Miniature Ethernet Switches Deployed Onboard Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Miniature Ethernet Switches Deployed Onboard Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) used for reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting, and assessment required an upgrade for Ethernet switching capabilities for onboard communications and sensor payload equipment. Learn more!

02/27/2015