Flight Software Systems Section (TEC-SWF)

The Flight Software Systems Section (TEC-SWF), led by Maria Hernek, is responsible for providing support to all projects of the programme directorates in the area of flight software development and verification and validation.

TEC-SWF also ensures the maintenance and evolution of expertise in the corresponding technical areas, such as...

•    Independent SW V&V
•    Software Validation Facilities
•    New generation processors and their respective SW development environments
•    Kernel qualification for existing and new processors
•    Interface specifications and their standardisation, such as SOIS, EDS
•    FDIR approaches at system level and their application to projects
•    Avionics interfaces, such as MIL-bus, SpaceWire, SpaceFibre, Ethernet…