Embed-X – Breakthrough technology for the Embedded World

To enable companies to cope with the exorbitant costs systemic in current development processes, Embed-X has been designed to streamline software development to deliver 50% cost savings.

Embed-X is the first end-to-end application lifecycle management (ALM) solution dedicated to safety, security and mission critical embedded markets.

This industry-first embedded application lifecycle management for critical systems coordinates software engineering by integrating project management, requirements management, architecture, coding, software configuration management and testing. ALM solutions automate and enforce processes between the stages of development, manage relationships between assets used or produced by the software, and offer transparency and metrics through reports on development as it progresses.

Embed-X helps system engineering, development and production organisations:
 

• Manage project and technical objectives using graphical workflow engine
• Automate software lifecycle processes and minimize verification risks
• Collaborate using Embed-X Lifecycle Traceability Matrix (LTX)™ linking requirements, objectives, tasks and project assets
• Comply with certification standards of DO-178B/C, MISRA and security standards CERT C and Homeland Security Agency’s Common Weakness Enumerations (CWE) as well as IEC, FDA, NRC, CMMI Level 5 and SPICE.
• Enable requirements and systems components to be shared while creating an open and agile forum for software development
• Dynamically update and distribute requirements and lifecycle traceability relationships (or LTX) in distributed environments
• Transition seamlessly from development activities into production

Embed-X consists of four domains:

• Embed-X Backplane (containing Embed-X management for workflow, baselines, change control, and documentation)
• Embed-X Repository (utilising commercial databases)
• Embed-X Views (including a requirement authoring facility)
• Tools Domain including LDRA’s Testbed and TBrun as well as connectors to third-party tools