The handbook provides a consolidated, comprehensive information resource for engineers working with mission and safety critical systems. Principles, regulations, and processes common to all critical design projects are introduced in the beginning chapters. Expert contributors then offer development models, process templates, and documentation guidelines from their own core critical applications fields: automotive, aerospace, industrial, military, and more.

Readers will gain in-depth knowledge of how to avoid common pitfalls and meet even the strictest certification standards. Particular emphasis is placed on best practices, design tradeoffs, and testing procedures.


*Comprehensive coverage of all key concerns for designers of critical systems including standards compliance, verification and validation, and design tradeoffs
*Features valuable design templates
*Real-world case studies contained within these pages provide insight from experience