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EASA and FAA to Issue Further Guidance on Multicore Certification This Year

EASA and FAA to Issue Further Guidance on Multicore Certification This Year
The European Aviation Safety Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration are developing new guidance for the certification of avionics featuring multicore processors, such as this multicore processor module developed by Mercury Systems for helicopters. Photo: Mercury Systems

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are to issue further guidance on the certification of airborne systems with avionics multicore processors this year, according to EASA. The upcoming guidance is to be a joint EASA Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and FAA Advisory Circular (AC) and follows other counsel issued in recent years, including a EASA generic Certification Review Item Multicore Processor (CRI MCP) that applies to projects where two or more cores are…

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