Ensuring Safe, Reliable FPGA Hardware for Defense Platforms with DO-254
As airborne and defense electronic systems become increasingly complex and safety-critical, ensuring reliable FPGA and ASIC hardware design is more important than ever. Compliance with DO-254, the design assurance standard for airborne electronic hardware, is essential to guarantee safety, traceability, and certification readiness.
This webinar provides a practical, end-to-end overview of applying DO-254 best practices across the hardware development lifecycle—from requirements capture and RTL design to verification, validation, and evidence generation. Participants will gain insights into how simulation, verification, and traceability tools help reduce certification risk and deliver compliant, mission-ready hardware.
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Managing complete requirements traceability across the hardware lifecycle
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Ensuring robust RTL design and verification for complex FPGA/ASIC architectures
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Achieving verification completeness and coverage for certification
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Handling clock-domain and reset-domain issues in safety-critical designs
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Generating objective evidence required for DO-254 audits
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Reducing certification delays and late-stage rework
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Siemens Digital Industries Software – DO-254 Toolchain
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ReqTracer – Requirements capture, traceability, and compliance tracking
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HDL Designer – Structured design entry using block diagrams, FSMs, and RTL
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Questa Lint – Early RTL rule checking and quality enforcement
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QuestaSim – Advanced simulation and functional verification
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CDC/RDC Analysis – Detection of clock-domain and reset-domain issues
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Questa Inspect – Formal analysis and design correctness checking
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Questa Increase Coverage – Coverage-driven verification optimization
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Precision Synthesis – Optimized synthesis for FPGA and ASIC designs
Together, these tools provide a unified, high-confidence workflow to support DO-254-compliant development and certification.
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- RTL Designers
- Verification Engineers
- FPGA & ASIC Design Engineers
- Project Managers
- Safety & Compliance Professionals
- Aerospace & Defense Engineering Teams
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An Application Engineer in IC specializes in supporting semiconductor design teams with advanced technical expertise. With strong skills in circuit design, simulation, and verification, they help identify design issues, optimize performance, and guide customers in adopting best practices. By translating complex IC challenges into practical solutions, they enable faster development, improved reliability, and high-quality silicon delivery.
