The long-anticipated book on FAA RTCA DO-254 has been published by a major independent avionics publisher, to critical acclaim. This book, Avionics Certification – A Complete Guide To DO-254 quickly rose on Amazon’s rankings to become the #11 best-seller in the Computer Science category, as of the release date.

This book compiles publicly available information into a fast-paced, real-world treatise on D0-254. Full of practical advice to accelerate DO-254 hardware certification, and DO-254 development, this book should be read by every avionics hardware engineer developing FAA certified or FAA compliant hardware. Today, DO-254 is required for Military aircraft, UAS’s, and even ground based avionics or UAS controllers. This book describes all DO-254 documentation including DO-254 PHAC, DO-254 Checklists, and DO-254 planning processes. Also, DO-254 Tool Qualification, and DO-254 Hardware DERs are covered. For additional information, DO-254 whitepapers are available from highrely.com. HighRely also provides industry leading DO-254 training, and also JumpCert-254, a pre-packaged set of services to initiate DO-254 certification.

This book explains the most critical safety certification required by commercial and military aircraft. The authors describe each step in creating and submitting formal documents for government approval. Their advice is highly practical, acquired over 20 years of performing successful certifications now flying aboard every major airliner and many military aircraft. The book includes dozens of real-life anecdotes to show where applicants go wrong, fall victim to common myths and waste time with misconceptions. The authors approach avoids the abstract by delivering clear advice on such practical matters as budgets, staff members, tools, programming languages and schedules. They give numerous rules-of-thumb for guiding the reader along what can otherwise be an arduous path to certification. Although the book deals with each milestone of a program, the authors point out, We don t teach regulations, but how to think like the FAA! That approach has worked for scores of companies, helping avoid damaging overruns in budgets and schedules. As DO-254 (hardware) certification become established in aviation, they are spreading to other industries, such transportation, medical instruments and power generation. As in aviation, these technologies are now in the digital world, and need to meet high standards of safe operation demanded for aircraft. Increasingly, these other industries are required to meet DO-254 certification. As the authors explain, the official DO-254 documents are not only vague and non-specific, but have to be! The reason is, they need to apply to a wide range of systems. The authors meet the challenge by skillfully interpreting the intent of the documents. They have been doing it for years in world-wide seminars that have trained more people than all other seminars combined. Their book is the first text on this critical subject.