NordiaSoft: Integrated Development Environment and Consulting Services for SCA Based Systems

Aircrafts are today extremely complex electronic flying machines composed of a multitude of electronic sensors and control gears all connected to embedded computers that must react quickly to support the pilot in operating the aircraft in the most safe, efficient and economical way. Software is playing an increasing role in manufacturing, testing and management of aircrafts, deeply influencing the aerospace landscape. “We are moving to an era of Software Defined Aircraft environment. With the increasing complexity of the aircraft embedded systems, it is imperative that the methods and techniques to develop critical systems for aerospace be very efficient,” comments Claude Bélisle, CEO, NordiaSoft. He believes that the full potential of a solution is realized only when it can be effortlessly scaled to meet the changing infrastructural goals of aerospace enterprises. Addressing these rudiments, NordiaSoft has created an Integrated Development Environment(IDE) particularly tailored for the development of complex heterogeneous embedded systems with reusable and upgradable capabilities.

NordiaSoft offers products and services to customers that need to create state of the art software defined platforms for use in military and in industries like aerospace, telecommunications and robotics. The NordiaSoft SCARI SoftwareSuite is the company’s flagship product–a complete IDE designed for embedded systems developers. The Suite is intended to simplify several architectural system designs, optimize development costs and overall system performance. The SCARI Suite implements the Software Communications Architecture (SCA)—an open specification originally developed by the U.S. Department of Defense for secure radio systems and now endorsed and evolved by the international communities and industries. “The SCA is a very well integrated Component-Based Development architecture and is also applicable to any embedded system found in aerospace, transport, radar, instrumentation, electronic warfare, and more,” explains Bélisle.

The SCARI Suite provides an abstraction layer between the hardware platform and the software applications enabling significant simplification of software development and permitting high level of software reuse, essential for updates, upgrades and system scalability.