System Safety and Certification

Catalog description

Concepts, principles, methods and process applied for development of safety-critical and mission-critical software-intensive systems. The issues of system safety, requiring additional analysis and design techniques, are discussed from the perspective of computer hardware and software. The course discusses the safety requirements, hazard and risk analysis, failure modes and effect analysis, fault tolerance, basics of hardware and software reliability, levels of integrity, nature of faults and redundancy, and issues of verification, validation and certification. Safety standards across application domains, including SAE, ARP4754 & ARP4761 and RTCA DO-178C & DO-254 for safety considerations in development of aircraft systems are analyzed. The related certification roles, process, objectives, and activities are discussed. Selected software tools supporting safety and reliability assessment of hardware laboratory experiments with tools, and producing appropriate reports.