▎CCA Protocols

DO-178C

Software-considerations standard for airborne systems certification.

Definition

DO-178C / ED-12C is the airworthiness standard for airborne software, defining objectives by Design Assurance Level (A through E) and the artifacts (requirements, design, test, traceability) needed to certify safety-critical avionics. Autonomy software on CCA must reconcile DO-178C-style assurance with run-time assurance patterns to bound non-deterministic learned components.

Reference attributes

Body: RTCA / EUROCAE
Levels: DAL A (catastrophic) through DAL E
Successor docs: DO-330, DO-331, DO-332, DO-333
Companion: DO-254 for hardware

Related terms

ARINC 653
Industry standard for time- and space-partitioned avionics operating systems.
Run-Time Assurance (RTA)
Safety architecture that monitors and overrides untrusted autonomy at run time.

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