D254-CP · Practitioner
DO-254 Comprehensive Practitioner
Build a comprehensive understanding of the DO-254 lifecycle and supporting processes.
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- On-site at your organisation
About the Course
DO-254 Comprehensive Practitioner provides an in-depth foundation for professionals responsible for the development, verification, and design assurance of airborne electronic hardware.
The course connects activities, responsibilities, and lifecycle data from initial planning through project completion. It helps participants interpret DO-254 objectives in the context of their engineering processes and understand how those processes support a coherent compliance approach.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the relationships between DO-254 lifecycle activities.
- Identify dependencies between development, verification, and supporting processes.
- Contribute to planning the activities and lifecycle data needed to support compliance.
- Assess how engineering practices align with the intended design assurance approach.
Course Topics
- DO-254 objectives, lifecycle processes, and DAL considerations.
- Hardware certification planning and the role of the Plan for Hardware Aspects of Certification (PHAC).
- Planning development, verification, and supporting processes.
- Requirements capture, derived requirements, and traceability.
- Conceptual design, detailed design, and implementation.
- Validation and requirements-based verification.
- Use of reviews, analyses, and testing.
- Configuration management, change control, and problem reporting.
- Process assurance and consistency of lifecycle data.
- Introduction to tool assessment and qualification considerations.
Who Should Attend?
Hardware and FPGA/ASIC design engineers, verification engineers, technical leads, process assurance specialists, certification engineers, and hardware project managers.
Recommended Background
Experience in electronic hardware development or verification is recommended. D254-AW or equivalent introductory knowledge is helpful.
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