NVIDIA: Adoption of SPARK Ushers in a New Era in Security-Critical Software Development
What's Inside
This case study will examine:
The challenges faced by companies like your own in confronting increasingly hostile cybersecurity environments and how NVIDIA is tackling this to overcome a scarcity in expert software security resources
Learn why NVIDIA made the “heretical” decision to abandon C/C++ and adopt SPARK as its coding language of choice for security-critical software and firmware components and the impact this had
The advantages of using the SPARK for security- and safety-critical coding applications
How NVIDIA's tried and tested approach to ramping up their use of SPARK for critical component development can help your business
The benefits NVIDIA has gained through their adoption of SPARK
Why many of NVIDIA’s early SPARK skeptics have now become SPARK evangelists
NVIDIA’s recommendations for would-be SPARK adopters
See first-hand how you can adopt SPARK to establish and demonstrate assurance against cyberattacks and critical system failures
And more…
Customer
NVIDIA Corporation is among the world's most trusted names in graphics processing units, embedded systems, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence. Their GPUs and other systems are found in millions of products worldwide.
Challenge
Confront an increasingly hostile threat environment for embedded systems by finding a more measurable solution for verifying system security and safety in their critical software and firmware components.
Solution
Replace critical firmware and software components written in C/C++ with new components written in SPARK, the software language designed for embedded systems where predictable and highly reliable operation is essential.
Results and Benefits
NVIDIA is now using SPARK to mathematically guarantee—and demonstrate to customers and regulators—a total absence of runtime errors in its most critical components and of unspecified behaviors in its root-of-trust applications. SPARK thus provides NVIDIA and its customers the highest possible assurance against cyberattacks and critical systems failures.
