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This circular discusses the new RTCA document RTCA/DO-178B which provides guidance for software considerations for aircraft equipment using digital computer technology. It can be used to help secure FAA approval for type certification, supplemental type certification, or technical standard order authorizations. The document outlines verification, validation, documentation, and quality assurance processes that should be followed. Applicants may use the considerations in RTCA/DO-178B but the FAA may provide additional guidance relating software criticality levels to specific regulations. Copies of the RTCA document are available for purchase from RTCA.

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Ac20 115B

This circular discusses the new RTCA document RTCA/DO-178B which provides guidance for software considerations for aircraft equipment using digital computer technology. It can be used to help secure FAA approval for type certification, supplemental type certification, or technical standard order authorizations. The document outlines verification, validation, documentation, and quality assurance processes that should be followed. Applicants may use the considerations in RTCA/DO-178B but the FAA may provide additional guidance relating software criticality levels to specific regulations. Copies of the RTCA document are available for purchase from RTCA.

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8&j&: RTCA, Inc., Document RTCA/DO-I 78B DSCC: l/l l/93 Inilialed by: AIR- 100
AC No: 20- 115B

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1. PURPOSE. This advisory circular calls attention to RICA, Inc., (formerly the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) Document RTCADO-178B, Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification, issued December 1992. It discusses how the document may be applied with Federal Aviation Administration technical standard order (TSO) authorizations, type certification (TC), or supplemental type certification (STC). 2. CANCELLATION. Advisory Circular 20- 1154 Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) Document RTCA/DO-178A, dated March 1985, is canceled. 3. RELATED FEDERAL AVIATION REGULATIONS and 33. (FAR). FAR Parts 21,23,25,27.29,

4. BACKGROUND, RTCA Document RTCA/DO- I78B was developed to establish software considerations for developers, installers, and users when the aircraft equipment design is implemented using microcomputer techniques. It is expected that current and future avionics designs will make extensive use of this technology. The RTCA document outlines verification, validation, documentation, and software configuration management and quality assurance disciplines to be used in microcomputer systems. 5. USE OF RTCA/DO-178B PROCEDURES. An applicant for a TSO authorization, TC, or STC for any electronic equipment or system employing digital computer technology may use the considerations outlined in RTCA Document RTCADO-178B as a means, but not the only means, to secure FAA approval of the digital computer software. The FAA may publish advisory circulars for specific FARs, outlining the relationship between the crititiality of the software based systems and the appropriate software level as defined in RTCA/DO-178B. Those may differ from and will take precedence over the application of RTCA/DO- 178B. 6. AVAILABILITY OF RTCA DOCUMENT RTCA/DO-178B. Copies may be purchased from RTCA, Inc., 1140 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Suite 1020, Washington, D. C. 20036.

/John K. McGrath Acting Director, Aircraft Certification Service

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