Currently, dramatically increasing design costs are being reported for safety-critical applications. This is caused by additional necessary actions to implement and verify functional safety ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss functional safety thinking, techniques and approaches to automation with Mike Stellfox, Fellow at Cadence; Bryan Ramirez, strategic marketing manager at ...

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Codethink today opened early access to its mapping between the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework (TSF) and IEC 61508, the international standard governing the functional safety of electrical and ...

Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in very low failure probabilities, which are then combined with ...

IAR Systems announced its functional safety edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas’ RH850 family of automotive microcontrollers. The functional safety edition is certified by TÜV SÜD according ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...

The functional safety lifecycle management audit is a mechanism used to help reduce systematic problems from appearing in the design of a product. In the case of the manufacturing process, the quality ...

Has the time come to call a truce between functional safety and Agile software development? In my first real software job in the early 1980s, I worked in a company that made metrology equipment. At ...

Where functional safety risks need to be controlled, relying solely on EMC testing is inadequate, no matter how high the test levels are cranked up. Further, many engineers and project managers are ...

ISA recently published Safety Instrumented System Design: Techniques and Design Verification by William M. Goble, Ph.D., PE, CFSE, and Iwan van Beurden, MSc, CFSE. In this Q&A feature, Goble ...