Colin Walls
Mentor Graphics

Software for transportation systems is mostly considered to be safety critical, which is good news for all of us who ride upon them! In most respects, the development of a safety critical application for transportation does not differ from one utilized in another context. For safety critical applications, C is often the only available programming language. Even though it has its challenges, with care C may be used to produce safe, reliable, portable and maintainable code. Following the MISRA C guidelines helps achieve these goals.