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Verification of Safety-critical Software: Avionics software safety certification is achieved through objective-based standards.

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Avionics software has become a keystone in today’s aircraft design. Advances in avionics systems have reduced aircraft weight thereby reducing fuel consumption, enabled precision navigation, improved engine performance, and provided a host of other benefits. These advances have turned modern aircraft into flying data centers with computers controlling or monitoring many of the critical systems onboard. The software that runs these aircraft systems must be as safe as we can make it.

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    Queue  Volume 9, Issue 8
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    August 2011
    54 pages
    ISSN:1542-7730
    EISSN:1542-7749
    DOI:10.1145/2016036
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    Published: 29 August 2011
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