We are a very small company who've been developing FPGA based avionics for over a decade and had always retained very tight control of detailed design. Because of scheduling and resource constraints, we were suddenly faced with the need to outsource a large number of activities from one of our most important development projects to date. Providing conceptual design elements such as data flow and state machine diagrams, we initially outsourced a major critical sub-function of the design and iteratively implemented the entire product, including supporting software tools, with ITDev.
I was prepared that our aerospace certification requirements were always going to present a challenge when outsourcing so much critical design work - however I have been incredibly impressed with their implementation of agile, continuous integration and verification, as well as sailing through multiple on-site audits with US FAA designated engineering representatives (DERs) at ITDev's premises.
The overlap and commonality in tool suites (including configuration control) made our success so much easier to achieve. I feel the ultimate robustness and end quality of the product is a result of ITDev's continuous integration development processes and I am looking at implementing many of those same processes company wide within our own engineering processes.
