Whether you are driven by a simple desire to improve quality or by a need to meet mission-critical requirements and standards, built-in quality, safety and security will address your pain-points. Learn how at a free* one-day technical seminar presented by engineers, for engineers, sponsored by LDRA, QNX and Direct Insight
In the changing world of connected and ever more complex systems, development methodology can’t stand still – you must seek out a trail to reliability, robustness, and security. Which coding standards, quality metrics and coverage techniques should you apply? How might your chosen OS impact safety and security? And how can you provide a dynamic response should the system be compromised?
Our assembled cast of experts will use examples including QNX and LDRA products to provide insights into how the world of embedded development is rapidly evolving to meet these challenges. Whatever your motive for developing high quality, high availability software, these free seminars give you the chance to network with the experts and to understand how the techniques described can be used in practice to result in optimal development efficiency, high-quality products, low support overheads, and happy customers!
*These seminars are free to attend for qualified embedded developers, consultants and managers
What?
Free one-day technical seminars
Who?
Engineers and project managers interested in the development of quality-driven, mission-critical, safety-critical or secure–systems
When?
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Who should attend?
Senior executives, technical managers, system architects, product managers, development engineers, test engineers, and anyone wanting a better path to safe and secure systems development in an integrated environment to reduce time-to-market and improve overall quality.
This includes both project teams who have a general interest in creating safe and reliable systems, and those who are tasked to meet specific safety standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508 or IEC 62304.
What will you learn?
The seminar will be presented by experts in the field from LDRA and from QNX and will consist of presentation slides, demonstrations, and an optional hands-on workshop stream.
By using static analysis, applying coding standards, testing, and OS features, you will learn how to improve software quality and make the resulting application more secure and safe.
During the demonstration, the practical advantages of the LDRA and QNX products will be explained, and their positive effect on application and overall development quality will be highlighted.
Agenda:
Registration – coffee and pastries
Welcome and introductions
Embedded software development is a tricky business, and it would be easy to suppose that the addition of process standards (IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ISO 26262) and language subsets (MISRA, CERT C, AUTOSAR ++) could only make that worse.
But standards are imposed on safety- and security-critical environments simply because they result in better software.
Here you will start to understand how they do that, by learning
- What the standards mean in practice
- What techniques they promote
Why those techniques result in better quality software”
- Requirements Based Testing
- Bi-directional traceability to requirements
Mission-Critical Systems: Safety and Security built in: OS and hardware
An interactive session with live demos and examples – Part 1
- How are safety and security related?
- Ways to architect a crash-proof system
A Quick Coffee Break!
Mission-Critical Systems: Safety and Security built in: OS and hardware
An interactive session with live demos and examples – Part 2
- Secure Boot and the chain of trust
- Achieving a secure, connected system
Embedded Software Safety and Security Certification in Action:
Whether your pain-points concern safety, security, or simply product quality, best-practice development is only of benefit if your development efforts are to remain commercially viable.
Here you will build upon your newly acquired background knowledge to learn how the techniques promoted by standards such as IEC 61508, IEC 62304, EN 50128 and ISO 26262 can be efficiently applied.
Buffet lunch and informal networking
- Meet the speakers
- See some demonstrations
Perspective – how will safety-critical development look in the future?
- Virtualisation / use of hypervisor technology
- Partitioned deployment of safety-critical and other systems on one processor
- Hardware rationalisation means software virtualisation
- Hardware and software redundancy for reducing failure rate
- Loosely coupled lockstep
Safety-critical applications in aircraft, medical devices, process control and railways have long applied best-practice techniques to keep us all safe.
Security-critical applications demand the use of secure coding techniques as a level of defence against vulnerabilities in hypervisors, RTOSs, middleware and hardware.
And pragmatic quality enhancement relies on the informed application of a subset of best-practice techniques.
This interactive, in-depth demonstration will ensure that you take away a sound foundation to equip you in the development of applications today – and tomorrow.
Wrap up and Q&A
For more than forty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for software that automates code analysis and software testing for safety-, mission-, security-, and business-critical markets. Working with clients to achieve early error identification and full compliance with industry standards, LDRA traces requirements through static and dynamic analysis to unit testing and verification for a wide variety of hardware and software platforms. Boasting a worldwide presence, LDRA is headquartered in the UK with subsidiaries in the United States and India coupled with an extensive distributor network.
QNX Software Systems Limited, a subsidiary of BlackBerry, is a leading vendor of operating systems, development tools, and professional services for connected embedded systems. Global leaders such as Audi, Cisco, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens depend on QNX technology for vehicle infotainment units, network routers, medical devices, industrial automation systems, security and defense systems, and other mission- or life-critical applications. Founded in 1980, QNX Software Systems Limited is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada; its products are distributed in more than 100 countries worldwide. Visit www.qnx.com
Direct Insight provides adaptable solutions, enabling you to bring smart, connected embedded devices and operational technology for IoT to market quickly and cost-effectively. We are experienced specialists in combining existing and bespoke IP to create a pragmatic solution which meets the commercial and technical needs of our customers. Often existing platforms are adapted or evolved, avoiding the delay and expense of a ground-up approach. We use ARM, x86 and FPGA technologies, with Linux, QNX and Windows Embedded operating systems. www.directinsight.co.uk