Bringing over thirty years experience of avionics systems and software engineering to bear on your problems.
Our experience on projects ranging from the Typhoon Helmet Mounted Sight to the National Resilience Extranet, covers the whole lifecycle, from bid through to delivery and customer sign-off, and the underlying processes that engineering businesses need to support the engineering functions.
Clients
MBDA. It's not rocket science.Actually, yes it is.
Hooves-R-Us. Website development.
The Vale of Lune Harriers & The Three Counties Bloodhounds. Website development and content management.
A few of the projects we have worked on are listed below:
- Tornado ADV — Link 16 (JTIDS) testing.
- Tornado GR4 — Computer Symbol Generator systems and software design and development; Process improvements. Requirements management.
- Eurofighter Typhoon — FLIR and IFF functional and equipment specification; Hazard Analysis; Concepts of Operation for Helmet Mounted Sight and Air-to-Surface attack; Systems Integration; Software design and development for Helmet Mounted Sight.
- Pilatus PC-21 — Main computer software design and development; Graphics software interface; Requirements management and verification; DO-178B certifiable automatic code generator.
- RTCA/DO178-B — Board support package certification.
- Meggit Petroleum Systems — Software design for forecourt control systems; I2C drivers; IBM Artic Card RS232 driver software; Point of Sale integration; Soak test systems.
- Syntaxis Secure Collaborative Working Environment — Secure website accreditation.
- MBDA — Toolchain integration.
- National Resilience Extranet — Secure website delivery, testing and accreditation.
- Joint and Multi-National Interoperability Assurance Network — Project Management; Network design, installation and test; Proof-of-concept trials; Installation of the JMNIAN node at the Land Systems Reference Centre, Blandford.
Technologies & Methodologies
We are well-versed in all types of software development, from low level embedded systems, to .NET and LAMP web sites. And we can do the necessary shell scripting and tool integration to ease the process.
Our experience has given us a toolbox of processes and best-practices to bring to bear on the task in hand, from the full blown processes required for RTCA/DO178-B certification to lightweight processes appropriate to rapid development.
We have seen all phases of the project lifecycle, from winning the bid, to delivering the finished product to budget, and into ongoing maintenance. If your systems and software engineers take them and us attitudes and believe that each has special needs in this world of complex systems engineering CASE tools then you need Akroyd Wallis to help them realise what they have in common and start working together.
Over the years we just some of the languages and technologies we have worked with include:
- .NET
- Ada (83 & 95)
- assembler
- awk
- business management systems
- C
- C++
- C#
- CORAL66
- CoRE
- CVS
- DCL
- DOORS
- dxl
- embedded
- grinder load testing frameworks
- HOOD
- I2C
- ISO 9000 compliance
- IIS
- LAMP
- LDAP
- LISP
- MISRA
- MS Office automation and semantic template design
- perl
- PHP
- python
- quality improvement - here at Akroyd Wallis quality is not bolted on, it's built in
- Rational Rhapsody & Rose
- realtime programming
- risk management
- RS232
- safety critical certification, including preparation of PSAC documents for RTCA/DO-178B
- Serena Dimensions (see our integration with Rhapsody)
- SCRUM
- shell scripting
- software build automation
- SQL
- subversion, including setup and configuration
- Test Anything Protocol
- test framework design
- TRAC configuration
- UML
- VAPS
- Visual Basic
- VBA
- VxWorks
- WatiN
- XAMP
- XML
- xsl
- xslt
We know the most appropriate tools to bring to bear to solve your problems, or can bend the ones you have to work the way you want.
Perhaps most importantly we understand that using a tool to help do a task doesn't take away from the engineering skill and judgement required to perform that task.