A key workshop at this year's UK Device Developers' Conference will inform engineers, programmers and computer scientists on the latest developments to the MISRA-C coding standard, a set of guidelines to aid the development of safety related software.
The UK Device Developers' Conference is an event for technologists working in the fields of embedded systems and realtime software, taking place at Cambourne near Cambridge on 27th and 28th April.
MISRA is a collaboration between manufacturers, component suppliers and engineering consultancies in many industries including aerospace, defence and automotive, which seeks to promote best practice in developing safety-related electronic systems in critical and other embedded systems. MISRA produced MISRA C, a set of guidelines to aid the development of safety related systems in "C" in the automotive world. Since then, MISRA C has been adopted by the wider embedded systems community and has become the dominant, international coding guidelines for the use of "C" in critical systems.
"Whilst MISRA-C initially targeted safety it is now also looking at security," said Chris Hills of Phaedrus Systems. "At a source code level it can be the same thing and at other times not. With increasingly large numbers of embedded devices becoming “connected” they need more than just internal integrity, care needs to be taken to stop intentional misuse rather than simply producing reliable code. We will look at how the latest MISRA C developments will address this requirement."
This 3-hour workshop will be presented jointly by Andrew Banks of Frazer-Nash Research, the Chairman of the MISRA C Working Group, and the following members of the MISRA-C Working Group: Chris Tapp from software testing experts LDRA, Jill Britton from Programming Research the static analysis expertsand Chris Hills from software development tools specialist Phaedrus Systems.
Those that are new to MISRA C will benefit from Chris Tapp's section of the workshop that will explore "What does MISRA compliance mean to someone producing code? ", "What does it involve?", "How do I support my claim? What does MISRA compliance mean for me as a customer?"and "How do I verify a claim of compliance?".
Chris Tapp is the Chairman of the MISRA C++ committee as well as a MISRA C committee member.
Places on this workshop will be limited, so early registration is recommended. There is a charge of £75+vat for places on this workshop.
The Device Developers’ Conference will be co-located with H/WExpo, a conference for hardware developers.
About The Device Developers’ Conference
The Device Developers’ Conference is an annual UK event for the developers of intelligent systems and devices. The 2016 event will take place at Cambourne, near Cambridge on 27th and 28th April.
Sponsored by a broad range of industry vendors, the exhibition and conference, including a series of 40-minute technical presentations and a number of two-hour demos and shorter workshops, is free to engineers and project managers working in the technology sector. Half-day/full-day workshops in various specialisms are available at a small charge.
For more information visit: http://www.device-developer-conference.co.uK
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Conference Contact:
Richard Blackburn
richardb@energi-tech.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1603 439569
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