Approaches to Certification of Reconfigurable IMA Systems

1 Paul Hollow is a Research Student within the DCSC at York funded by EPSRC with a CASE award from BAE SYSTEMS. Abstract. The aerospace industry has been investigating integrated modular avionics (IMA) for some years. IMA offers greater flexibility in the use of computing resources by reconfiguring the software to employ different processors and communications, in order to recover from failure and to redistribute workload. Such reconfiguration offers benefits, but poses difficulties for certification since current certification practice requires assessment of each configuration.