New graphics cards feature AMD Radeon E8860 GPU, DO-254 DAL C, and DO-178C DAL A safety certifiable data artifacts and 15+ year availability.

Rick Hearn from Curtiss-Wright looks at how COTS DO-254 safety-certifiable avionics hardware lowers cost and reduces risk.

In this Q&A we discuss the benefits that occur for commercial aircraft from certifying COTS hardware to DO-254 DAL A, its similarities to certifying software to DO-178C, and how it might apply to unmanned aircraft.

Paul Davis from Curtiss-Wright looks at the NSA-approved two-layer encryption approach which slashes cost and development time.

One example of an FPGA-based VME interface alternative is Curtiss-Wright’s Helix, a field-tested and proven PCI Express-to-VME64x transparent bridge that provides a full VME64xMaster/Slave interface with a direct bridge to a PCI Express upstream port

Curtiss-Wright presented on COTS and DO-254 Safety Certifiability in the Defense and Aerospace Industry at NXP FTF 2016 Technology Forum in Austin, Texas.

New rugged DTS1 network attached storage (NAS) subsystem stores 2 TB; supports optional AES-256 encryption for secure data-at-rest.

John McHale with Military Embedded Systems' April 2016 roundtable with industry experts looks at Safety Critical avionics trends.