Safety-Critical Software Platform Combines DDC-I`s DO-178B RTOS with LDRA`s Analysis and Test Tools

Integrated Solution Targets Aerospace, Defense, Telecom, Power Plant, Medical,
Automotive, and Industrial Control Applications
PHOENIX & WIRRAL, England--(Business Wire)--
DDC-I, a leading supplier of software and professional services for
safety-critical applications, and LDRA, provider of the industry`s most complete
automated software testing technology, today announced the integration of
DDC-I`s DO-178B-certifiable DeosTM real-time operating system (RTOS) and LDRA`s
tool suite®. The integrated solution will help developers get to market faster
with optimized, robust and certifiable software that meets the most demanding
safety-critical requirements, including DO-178B Level A, the FAA`s highest level
of safety criticality.

"The demand for safety-critical software has expanded beyond traditional
aerospace and defense applications into markets such as telecom, power plants,
medical, automotive, and industrial control," said Greg Rose, vice president of
marketing at DDC-I. "LDRA`s best-in-class tools are a perfect complement to our
own proven safety-critical RTOS and tool suite. This integration gives
developers across a broad range of mission-critical applications the turnkey
platform they need to quickly develop, debug, comprehensively test and deploy
safety-critical software that can be readily certified to the most demanding
requirements."

"The LDRA tool suite has already been used extensively with Deos on a custom
basis for a number of safety-critical projects, including air data units,
navigation systems and ground-based augmentation GPS systems," added Ian
Hennell, operations director at LDRA. "This commercially available off-the-shelf
integration delivers an even higher level of functionality and support,
providing a premier platform that reduces the time and cost associated with
developing, testing, deploying, and certifying safety-critical software."

The LDRA tool suite provides comprehensive automated software testing and code
analysis for a broad range of military and aerospace, telecommunications,
transportation, power and medical applications. The suite covers the full
software development lifecycle, including requirements traceability and
programming standards checking (i.e., MISRA-C:2004, MISRA C++:2008, JSF++ AV and
CERT C), code coverage, structural coverage analysis up to DO-178B Level A,
automated unit testing, and test verification.

Deos is the industry`s most robust, highest performance RTOS for the
safety-critical market. Featuring deterministic real-time response, the
memory-protected RTOS employs patented "slack scheduling" to deliver higher CPU
utilization than any other safety-critical commercial off the shelf (COTS) RTOS.
Deos is the only certifiable time and space (T&S) partitioned COTS RTOS built
from the ground up for safety-critical applications. Deos also provides the
easiest, lowest cost path of any COTS RTOS to DO-178B Level A certification, the
highest level of safety criticality.

About LDRA

For more than thirty years, LDRA has developed and driven the market for
software used for the automation of code analysis and software testing of safety
critical applications. The LDRA tool suite is used in the aerospace, space and
defense technology industries as well as the nuclear energy and automotive
industries. Through the use of the LDRA tool suite, companies ensure that their
systems are built in accordance with prescribed standards and are durable and
reliable in use. The LDRA tool suite is available for a variety of programming
languages and supports a wide range of host and target platforms. LDRA is
represented world-wide with its head office in the UK and subsidiaries in the
USA as well as through an extensive distributor network. For more information on
the LDRA tool suite, please visit: www.ldra.com.

About DDC-I, Inc.

DDC-I, Inc. is a global supplier of real-time operating systems, software
development tools, custom software development services, and legacy software
system modernization solutions, with a primary focus on safety-critical
applications. DDC-I's customer base is an impressive "who's who" in the
commercial, military, aerospace, and safety-critical industries. DDC-I offers
safety-critical real-time operating systems, compilers, integrated development
environments and run-time systems for real-time Java, C, C++, Ada, Fortran and
JOVIAL application development. For more information regarding DDC-I products,
contact DDC-I at 1825 E. Northern Ave., Suite #125, Phoenix, Arizona 85020;
phone (602) 275-7172; fax (602) 252-6054; e-mail sales@ddci.com or visit
http://www.ddci.com/mktg.php?mc=pr0908.

This press release can be downloaded from
http://www.hughescom.net/pressroom/LDRA.html

Hughes Communications, Inc.
Janice Hughes, 705-751-9740
Mobile: 705-774-8686
janice@hughescom.net
or
LDRA
Mark James, Marketing Manager
+44 (0)151 649 9300
mark.james@ldra.com
or
Davis Marrin Communications
Ken Marrin, 321-725-2674
kmarrin@davismarrin.com
or
DDC-I
Greg Rose, VP of Marketing
602-386-4384
grose@ddci.com

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