Case Study: Impact Instrumentation achieves 100% structural code coverage and FDA certification with Vector Software's VectorCAST

Ensuring Reliability & Preserving Life

Impact Instrumentation designs and manufactures medical ventilators used in hospitals and ambulance transport. For a new portable intensive care ventilator project, the team needed to achieve 100% structural code coverage to meet FDA certification requirements.

They used VectorCAST/C++ and VectorCAST/RSP for low-level requirements testing and structural coverage analysis. With these tools, the Uni-Vent® Model 731EMV achieved FDA certification in 2009; Impact Instrumentation has relied on VectorCAST products since 2008 and cites them as a critical part of the certification process.

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