Food manufacturers face stricter demands as recalls and outbreaks push a more reactive focus on food safety. Responsibility ...

The earlier you can perform functional safety analysis in the design cycle, the higher chance of identifying hotspots and meeting target ASIL. Imagine the air bag in your car not inflating during a ...

The focus on functional safety IP is rapidly growing and we’re seeing this growth not just in automotive but in many other markets including, avionics, medical, industrial and railways, where systems ...

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 ...

According to Kevin Connelly, business development manager, power and controls at Underwriters Laboratories (UL), component manufacturers now have an important opportunity to secure functional safety ...

In the 1980’s, the use of programmable electronic components such as microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors in industrial control systems began to grow. The International Electrotechnical ...

Chipmakers are very clear about what functional safety means for their microprocessor/microcontroller (MPU/MCU) designs for automotive applications. The ISO 26262 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increasingly stringent safety regulations (for example, the emerging IEC 61508 standard) are driving expansion in the market for machine safety products and technologies. As demand increases for ...