Developing functional safety systems, including all the components such as the system-on-chip (SoC) and IP, hinges on the ability to meet the stringent automotive functional safety requirements such ...

Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

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 ...

A power supply unit is one of the most crucial components in an electronics system, as its operation can affect the entire system’s functionality. In the context of industrial functional safety, as in ...

The importance of functional safety in automotive systems. Requirements for vehicle functional safety. The role and applications of FPGAs in automotive safety systems. The automotive industry is ...

Part 2 of 2: How should companies go about the verification of functional safety and what tools can be used? The automotive industry is grappling with a tradeoff between cost and safety. Safety is ...

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 ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

Following a week of web-based meetings in mid-May, the ISA84 standards committee, Instrumented Systems to Achieve Functional Safety in the Process Industries, is moving well ahead in developing and ...