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Ascent's proprietary Critical Software Development Process (CSP) provides a highly structured software development lifecycle that is optimized for smaller development teams commonly found in medical devices. Our process is available for purchase by select customers. On large projects, the CSP becomes a part of the project's deliverables. Critical Software Development Process Description The Critical Software Development Process (CSP) is a process tailored to the development of safety critical software for medical devices. For a given software development project, CSP defines:
	The activities that should be performed
	The order in which activities should be performed
	The people responsible for completion of the activities
	The documentation that should be produced
CSP complies with the IEEE standards for the development of critical software, and the ISO 9001 standards for software development. CSP is based on software industry good practices. CSP covers all phases of a software project, as defined by the IEEE:
	Concept
	Requirements
	Design
	Implementation
	Test
	Installation and Checkout
For each phase of a software project, CSP defines activities in functional categories:
	Project Management
	Quality Assurance
	Configuration Management
	Verification and Validation
	Engineering
	Safety Engineering

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