When the motoring industry realized how important embedded software was becoming to automotive manufacturers it chose to standardize on C. When it decided it needed to create a set of guidelines to define a safe subset of the C language suitable for the development of safety critical systems it turned to PRQA.

The MISRA-C guidelines were originally derived in part from coding standards created by PRQA for two of its leading automotive customers, MISRA-C is now widely recognized as the preferred coding standard for the C language when used in embedded systems, within the motoring industry and beyond.

As the use of coding standards has proliferated, so too has the need for a coding standard enforcement tool which has been proven to deliver quality results across many industries. PRQA, the world leader in coding standard enforcement and language based static analysis, offers a compliance module for its industry leading QA·C analysis tool to enforce the MISRA-C coding standards.

QA·MISRA-C offers fully integrated MISRA-C compliance, with the highest available enforcement of MISRA-C:1998 and MISRA-C:2004 coding standards. It is fully configurable, providing project-based compliance reporting to the MISRA-C:1998 and MISRA-C:2004 coding standards.

Using PRQA's Message Browser, online help and targeted MISRA-C messaging, developers can effectively produce MISRA-C compliant code. Using a variety of output reporting, organizations can report, audit and proof their compliance to the MISRA standard.