2009 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Towards an Industrial Use of FLUCTUAT on Safety-Critical Avionics Software
verfasst von : David Delmas, Eric Goubault, Sylvie Putot, Jean Souyris, Karim Tekkal, Franck Védrine
Erschienen in: Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Most modern safety-critical control programs, such as those embedded in fly-by-wire control systems, perform a lot of floating-point computations. The well-known pitfalls of IEEE 754 arithmetic make stability and accuracy analyses a requirement for this type of software. This need is traditionally addressed through a combination of testing and sophisticated intellectual analyses, but such a process is both costly and error-prone. FLUCTUAT is a static analyzer developed by CEA-LIST for studying the propagation of rounding errors in C programs. After a long time research collaboration with CEA-LIST on this tool, Airbus is now willing to use FLUCTUAT industrially, in order to automate part of the accuracy analyses of some control programs. In this paper, we present the IEEE 754 standard, the FLUCTUAT tool, the types of codes to be analyzed and the analysis methodology, together with code examples and analysis results.