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Mission software, DO-178C verification evidence, FPGA and board design, edge AI payloads and satellite test systems for aerospace, defence and space programmes. Engineering led from Bengaluru.
Engineering and verification evidence for avionics, defence and space electronics: structural coverage, requirements traceability and the tool qualification inputs a DO-178C programme needs.
Avionics, mission computers and defence electronics are built to a certification plan, and the software is only as credible as the evidence behind it. DO-178C ties the verification effort to the software level: structural coverage down to MC/DC at Level A, independence for certain objectives, and an argument that every tool in the chain is fit for its job. A fault found late delays the programme. GSAS engineers the software, the boards and the tests, and produces that verification evidence as the code is written. The software level, the plans and the approval stay with the applicant and the certification authority.
The tooling behind the work is mapped to the activity it supports. Klocwork and Perforce QAC check conformance to a coding standard, TESSY by Razorcat runs requirements-based unit tests and measures MC/DC coverage, Arm Compiler for Embedded FuSa carries TÜV SÜD certification per Arm, and Perforce Helix ALM keeps requirements, tests and changes traceable. Those certificates name industrial, automotive, railway and medical standards rather than DO-178C, so for an airborne programme they feed your own DO-330 tool qualification. The DO-178C page sets out where each tool fits.
Some defence platforms run inference on board: ISR camera payloads on NVIDIA Jetson, multi-sensor perception on AMD adaptive SoCs, and TinyML threat classification on Cortex-M55 with Ethos-U inside battery-powered field sensors. The Edge AI and vision capability covers this stack within the constraints defence work brings: deterministic inference timing and static analysis of the glue code.
There is no hardware fix in orbit, and the qualification evidence is part of the deliverable. Through its founding team, GSAS has supported ISRO since the 1990s, including hardware and test systems for Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1. The space and satellite capabilities page sets out what GSAS has delivered and the satellite subsystems it can support.
The GSAS facility at Doddaballapur, opened in September 2026, carries test automation and integration work for the automotive, aerospace and satellite sectors. At Bengaluru Space Expo 2026, what space engineering teams raised was embedded systems work, FPGA engineering and the test and validation effort that has to be finished before anything is committed.
Teams across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Mumbai and Delhi NCR reach the same application engineers, and a programme conversation starts with a question to an engineer.
Each card lights the part of an avionics or mission system that service touches, from the software on the mission computer to the bench that proves it.
Board support, real-time kernels and drivers for the processors in avionics and mission computers.
The verification evidence a DO-178C plan calls for, produced as the code is written.
Digital design and multilayer boards, built to the customer’s drawings and specification.
Detection and situational awareness running on the platform, not in a data centre.
Satellite sensors and the ground test systems that prove a subsystem before it flies.
Tests that run the same way on every build, on the bench and on the real core.
Each stage leaves something the applicant, the certification authority or the next team can check. The software level and the certification argument stay with your programme.
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Rules and tools agreed before the first commit
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Findings reach the developer who made the change
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Evidence packaged for your certification plan
Each service above is a full practice at GSAS. These are the pages that describe it in depth.
GSAS is a value added distributor/reseller for these products. We have a dedicated FAE team ready to help you with custom built solutions matching your needs.
Perforce Klocwork Klocwork by Perforce is a scalable SAST tool for C, C++, C#, Rust, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Kotlin, built for DevSecOps with incremental analysis, MISRA, CERT, and CWE enforcement, and TUV SUD certified ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 tool qualification. Deployed and supported across India by GSAS. 
Perforce Perforce QAC MISRA compliance analysis tool for C and C++ with qualification kits for automotive and safety-critical certification. India pricing and local support from GSAS. 
Razorcat TESSY Automated dynamic unit, module, and integration testing for embedded C/C++ with MC/DC coverage. Qualified by Razorcat for safety-related software development per IEC 61508, IEC 62304, ISO 26262 and EN 50128. Buy in India from GSAS. 
Arm Arm Compiler for Embedded FuSa Safety-certified C/C++ compiler for Cortex-M/R/A, TUV SUD qualified to ISO 26262 ASIL D, IEC 61508 SIL 3, EN 50716 (Railways) SIL 4, and IEC 62304 Class C per Arm's published Safety Manual. GSAS India partner. 
Perforce Helix ALM Requirements management, test management, and issue tracking platform with end-to-end traceability for safety-critical and regulated development. Buy in India from GSAS with local support. A chip shows a published qualification scope where one exists, and the bare standard name where none does.
DO-254, MIL-STD-498 are listed in this page's standards set, but no tool in the table below carries a published qualification against them, and GSAS does not claim one. Which of these applies to a given programme depends on its scope, jurisdiction and certification basis.
| Tool | Applicable Standards |
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| Klocwork (Perforce) | DO-178C via DO-330 tool qualificationMISRA C |
| Perforce QAC | DO-178C via DO-330 packMISRA C |
| TESSY (Razorcat) | DO-178C via DO-330 by the applicant |
An avionics unit, a defence electronics platform or a spacecraft subsystem.
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Units built to an airborne specification
Mission software on Cortex-M, R and A targets, with the DO-178C verification evidence produced alongside it: coding-standard enforcement, unit tests with MC/DC coverage and on-target trace.
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Custom boards and payloads
Custom boards, FPGA processing and edge AI for detection and situational awareness, designed to your specification and tested on the bench before it goes to the field.
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Satellite subsystems and ground test
Satellite sensors, EGSE and checkout systems, simulators and boards built to your drawings, with build and board-level verification in Bengaluru Rural and environmental qualification through qualified partners.
Tell us the system, the standard it is built to and where it sits in the programme. GSAS replies from Bengaluru with scope and a proposal: software, verification evidence, hardware and test.
GSAS provides avionics and mission software, DO-178C verification evidence, FPGA and multilayer board design, edge AI for defence platforms, satellite sensors and ground test systems, and HIL, SIL and on-target test benches. Engineering is led from Bengaluru, with build and test at Doddaballapur, Bengaluru Rural.
Yes. GSAS enforces a coding standard with deviation records, writes requirements-based unit tests with MC/DC coverage, measures coverage on the target through hardware trace, and prepares tool documentation for your DO-330 qualification activity. The software level, the plans and the compliance argument stay with the applicant and the certification authority.
Neither standard certifies a supplier. Approval is granted for the software or hardware in a programme, through the applicant and the certification authority. GSAS produces engineering work and verification evidence for that programme, and the company itself is ISO 9001:2015 certified by TÜV Rheinland.
Through its founding team, GSAS has supported ISRO since the 1990s, including hardware and test systems for Chandrayaan-3 and Aditya-L1. The space and satellite capability page sets out the sensors, checkout systems and simulators delivered, and the satellite subsystems GSAS can support.
Yes. GSAS builds camera pipelines for ISR payloads, deploys inference on AMD adaptive SoCs and NVIDIA Jetson modules, and runs TinyML on Cortex-M55 with Ethos-U in battery-powered field sensors. Deterministic inference paths and static analysis of the glue code are part of the work.
Yes. GSAS is a value added distributor/reseller for the static analysis, unit test, compiler and traceability tools on this page, and its engineers use the same tools on customer projects.
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