14 DO-331 and Model-Based Development and Verification

Acronym

EASA European Aviation Safety Agency
EUROCAE European Organization for Civil Aviation Equipment
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
HLR high-level requirement
LLR low-level requirement
SC-205 Special Committee #205
SCADE standard for the development of critical embedded display software
WG-71 Working Group #71

14.1 Introduction

The DO-331 glossary defines a model as follows:

An abstract representation of a given set of aspects of a system that is used for analysis, verification, simulation, code generation, or any combination thereof. A model should be unambiguous, regardless of its level of abstraction.

Note 1: If the representation is a diagram that is ambiguous in ...

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