Experts in high-integrity certification and assurance
Experienced Quality Assurance Team
Certification is the key project objective that underpins our safety critical software and firmware, development and verification capability.
At Phixos, we provide a range of expert-led certification services to support your safety-critical applications. The experience we have gained through our broad industry exposure and clients in the safety critical software and firmware arena over more than 30 years, enables us to define the planning documents, processes and standards that are compliant and enforce the external safety standards as well as provide direction and consultation to guide the project on the best approach to achieve certification.
Our independent quality assurance team allows us to provide differing levels of quality assurance from the typical activities ensuring ongoing compliance against standards, through to more detailed Pre-Stage of Involvement Audits (SOI 1-4). Phixos ensures that ahead of the formal certification audits, potential issues and risks are identified and resolved in support of successful certification.
- Over 30 years experience in Safety critical certified projects
- Experience in all DAL/SILs and all standards.
- Proven track record of successful certification compliance
- Gap analysis of the clients processes against IEC 61508 for a Software implementation and Define the generation of the planning documents for a specific marine application.
Planning documents definition
Your plans will under pin your certification, defining your development and verification environments, lifecycle and the means to satisfy the objectives of the applicable certification standard. Our expertise in defining these will set your project on the right track from the very beginning.
Standards and process definition
With a very broad project portfolio, our wealth of experience in defining standards will ensure a consistent approach to development and verification as well as prevent constructs or methods that are not verifiable or counter to the certification standards.
Tool qualification/ assurance
Tool qualification is a key facet of certification and is key to ensuring your chosen tools can’t either introduce and error or fail to find an error. Our experience in producing tool qualification evidence will support your certification.
Independent quality assurance
From the more typical quality assurance activities ensuring ongoing compliance against standards, through to more detailed Pre-Stage of Involvement Audits (SOI 1-4). Our independent Quality team can provide that peace of mind that everything is proceeding to plan.
Certification support & ownership
Your project success hinges on certification success. Our experience of not only supporting your generation of certification evidence, but also owning the certification and interfacing directly with the certification authority will help you achieve certification and success.
Re-certification
Modifications, upgrades and obsolescence to old legacy systems, requires re-certification, typically against an updated certification standard with higher expectations. Our broad experience will help you bridge the gap to re-certification in a cost-effective manner.
Software standards & process definition
These form the foundations that the technical solution will be built upon, Our early definition of these will ensure maintainability, certification and reduce the impact and cost due to future modifications.
Full-lifecycle development & verification
Our full-lifecycle ownership allows you to focus on the system and product, allowing us to do what we do best and provide a complete verified compliant software solution.
Requirements definition
Decomposing your System requirements into a set of Software requirements or performing a requirement capture activity, will give you the confidence that we can describe and agree on the success criteria of the software’s performance.
Architecture
Our Software architecture will ensure all stakeholders understand the software structure allowing the engineers to work in parallel in confidence and reducing the impact to cost due to any future increases in size and complexity.
Design and Implementation
With extensive experience in a broad range of tools, languages and design methodologies, Our software team can design and implement from board support packages and low level drivers to application control and monitoring functionality.
Independent verification & validation
Our dedicated independent verification team has over 30 years of experience, of all types of software V&V, using a broad range of commercial and bespoke tools to implement functional and robustness testing, from unit to integration test.
Legacy system updates
With complex electronics in service for decades, modification, upgrades and obsolescence are common place, We have extensive experience of taking ownership of old systems and toolchains and migrating/updating to ensure functional and standards compliance.
Graphical HMIs
Our experience in developing dynamic interactive real-time graphical HMIs for complex solutions like avionic displays, allows rapid ‘look and feel’ prototyping to allow your front-end system to be refined as the project progresses.
Full Certifiable solution
Our 30 + years of high integrity development and verification experience, up to DAL A/SIL 4 gives you the confidence that our processes will ensure a certifiable software solution.
Firmware standards & process definition
These form the foundations that the technical solution will be built upon, Our early definition of these will ensure maintainability, certification and reduce the impact and cost due to future modifications.
Full lifecycle development and verification
Our full-lifecycle ownership allows you to focus on the system and product, allowing us to do what we do best and provide a complete verified compliant firmware solution.
Requirements definition
Decomposing your System requirements into a set of Firmware requirements or performing a requirement capture activity, will give you the confidence that we can describe and agree on the success criteria of the Firmware’s performance.
Architecture
Our Firmware architecture will ensure all stakeholders understand the firmware structure allowing the engineers to work in parallel in confidence and reducing the impact to cost due to any future increases in size and complexity.
RTL design & implementation
With extensive experience in RTL design, synthesis for a wide variety of targets, place and route and timing closure, our firmware team can design and implement solutions for all requirements.
IP core generation & integration
Our ability to generate IP cores to support reuse across programs or by integrating 3rd party IP cores like SpaceWire into the design, we can ensure a design that meets your needs.
Simulation test
Our extensive capabilities cover a broad range of test approaches including constrained random testing and behavioural modelling, combined with formal equivalence through gate level testing we can provide the functional verification your system requires using any of the industry standard tools like Questa Sim and formal Pro.
SEE/SEU analysis & mitigation
Your design considerations will be critical to your systems tolerance to
in-orbit SEU, our wealth of experience can help you implement a robust design to support this.
Full Certified solution
Our 30 + years of high integrity development and verification experience, up to DAL A/SIL 4 gives you the confidence that our processes will ensure a certifiable firmware solution.
Planning documents definition
Your plans will under pin your certification, defining your development and verification environments, lifecycle and the means to satisfy the objectives of the applicable certification standard. Our expertise in defining these will set your project on the right track from the very beginning.
Standards and process definition
With a very broad project portfolio, our wealth of experience in defining standards will ensure a consistent approach to development and verification as well as prevent constructs or methods that are not verifiable or counter to the certification standards.
Tool qualification/ assurance
Tool qualification is a key facet of certification and is key to ensuring your chosen tools can’t either introduce and error or fail to find an error. Our experience in producing tool qualification evidence will support your certification.
Independent quality assurance
From the more typical quality assurance activities ensuring ongoing compliance against standards, through to more detailed Pre-Stage of Involvement Audits (SOI 1-4). Our independent Quality team can provide that peace of mind that everything is proceeding to plan.
Certification support & ownership
Your project success hinges on certification success. Our experience of not only supporting your generation of certification evidence, but also owning the certification and interfacing directly with the certification authority will help you achieve certification and success.
Re-certification
Modifications, upgrades and obsolescence to old legacy systems, requires re-certification, typically against an updated certification standard with higher expectations. Our broad experience will help you bridge the gap to re-certification in a cost-effective manner.
Why Choose Phixos
Safe and experienced hands
Our exposure to the many differing routes and facets of certification across the standards makes us an ideal certification partner, allowing us to own in part or full the required certification activities that are essential for a program to achieve success.
With certification experience across Aerospace, Rail, Space, Defence, Medical, Energy and Automotive industries, we are able to flex our service to meet your needs. From full certification ownership to defining the certification planning documents like PSAC/PHAC, SQAP/HPAP, SCMP/HCMP, SDP/HDP, SVP/HVP or providing specific tool qualification evidence, we can support you NPI program or a legacy update through to certification.
Certification is vital to get right, especially with safety and security where peoples’ lives may be on the line. With Phixos, your project is in safe and experienced hands.
- Flexible and collaborative working style
- Experience in tool qualification
- Full certification ownership
What our customers think
Why Choose Phixos
Achieving the Highest of Standards
Specialising in high integrity systems we have a proven track record of supporting certified solutions to the applicable industry standard.
If you have any specific requirements, get in touch and we can discuss your bespoke needs further.
- DO-178
- DO-254
- ECSS-Q-ST-60-02
- ECSS-E-ST-40
- ECSS-E-ST-80
- ISO 26262
- ISO 61508
- BS EN 50128
- IEC 60601
- IEC 62304
- Def Stan 00-56