Modularity and composability are popular buzzwords in software, for everything from enterprise computing down to bare metal applications. For safety-critical embedded systems, these concepts define goals for software reuse by enabling the use of existing software components in different combinations for different use cases.

Today’s software-based, safety-critical systems depend on certified software tools and processes for development. For many applications, tool qualification is a necessary step in ensuring the tool chain produces quality code to fulfill the needs of applicable safety standards. In many cases, the use of TÜV certified tools is sufficient but there’s an increasing number of very high-stakes applications where the functional safety standards demand more.

LDRA announced that the KONČAR Group has chosen LDRArules to perform static analysis on the source code for its newest Grap suite modular software platform and to confirm compliance with MISRA C.

Helps improve code quality, safety, and security while reducing development and certification costs.

While connected systems have resulted in new opportunities for easier monitoring, upgrading, and enhancement, they have also presented more vulnerable attack surfaces. Unfortunately, no single defense of a connected system can guarantee impenetrability. Fortunately, there are multiple levels of security to ensure that if one level fails, others stand guard.