Battery-powered applications, which have become indispensable over the last decade, require a certain level of protection to ensure safe use. This safety is provided by the battery management system ...

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 ...

With the rapid growth in semiconductor content in today’s vehicles, IC designers need to improve their process of meeting functional safety requirements defined by the ISO 26262 standard. The ISO ...

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 ...

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 ...

Functional safety accounts for time — to build on existing safety structure (category) approaches. As we explored last month in this article series, accounting for time requires more work from safety ...

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 ...

Increasing reliance on digital electronics and software in new vehicles requires a new generation of reliable memory that complies with strict functional-safety and security standards.