Airborne Electronic Hardware Design Assurance

6	Philosophy 101—Design Assurance Through Design Practice

As noted previously, DO-254 contains little or no technical information that an engineer can use to create safe and reliable electronics, focusing instead on the processes and methodologies that will first ensure that minimal errors are inadvertently inserted into a design, and second, ensure that the errors that are inserted can be revealed and fixed. The absence of technical guidance is appropriate since codifying the technical basis or standards for a field as rapidly evolving as electronics would seriously cripple the avionics industry in a very short time. Thus the technical aspects of a design are predominantly left to the discretion of the design engineers and their company ...