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With the LDRA announcement of being able to test software for Homeland Security’s CWE compatibility standard, LDRA’s leadership in the security sector has been recognized by Military Embedded Systems.

Targeting avionics, medical and automotive applications, LDRA integrated the LDRA tool suite with Code Warrior for HC08/HCS08, bringing powerful certification capabilities to this 8-bit footprint.

LDRA has developed the requirements-to-object–code traceability necessary for devices required to meet the most critical levels of certification. This comprehensive traceability ensures that verification problems found at the object-code level can be quickly and easily traced to the originating source code and requirements levels.

LDRA adds CWE Compatibility to its long suit of industry and programming standards. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, CWE Compatibility confirms that the LDRA tool suite can identify common programming errors contributing to software containing potentially exploitable vulnerabilities.

The LDRA tool suite’s integration with the TASKING VX-toolset for Infineon’s C166 brings certifiability to this small footprint family and its derivatives. LDRA stands alone in providing standard compliance across all stages of the lifecycle whether for automotive with MISRA and ISO 26262, industrial with IEC 61508 or avionics/military with DO-178B.

LDRA delivers compliance for IEC 61508, a standard which proves the functional safety of programmable electronic systems performing safety functions. Because of the integration of the LDRA tool suite, LDRA applies compliance to IEC 61508 from requirements through design, code, analysis and testing.

To automate test processes and replace traditional test silos with an integrated test management process, LDRA extends the capabilities of TBmanager, a test management and traceability component within the LDRA tool suite. TBmanager manages the flux between requirements, code and tests, providing improved transparency and consistent test plans.

Analox, a leader in gas-detection technology, chose LDRA’s analysis and test tools to achieve IEC 61508 compliance for a dive monitoring system and a submarine rescue vehicle. Not only did Analox improve quality and productivity with the LDRA tool suite, but costs came down too.

The LDRA tool suite provides assembler support for the Green Hills and GNU variants of the MIPS assembler along with C-style macro syntax. Thanks to this support, legacy applications can be fully certified to the most rigorous levels of DO-178B and FDA certification.

LDRA, the leading provider of automated software verification, source code analysis, and test tools, has integrated the LDRA tool suite with Wind River Workbench and VxWorks to provide a single work environment for safety- and security-critical certification. Thanks to a Wind River-specific Eclipse plug-in, developers have the flexibility of directly accessing LDRA tool suite capabilities from within Workbench or controlling Workbench and the VxWorks simulator from the LDRA tool suite.