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Robustness, reliability and safety of end products are becoming ever more important. In some application segments these requirements are formalized and mandatory, while in others they are implemented to differentiate the product and change a good product into an excellent product. The standards for functional safety depend on the target market.

Functional Safety Standards


ISO 26262 Functional Safety Car

ISO 26262: Functional Safety for Automotive Applications

ASIL

Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL) for electrical and electronic systems used in series production road vehicles, excluding mopeds

Industrial Applications with IEC 61508 (SIL) Standard

IEC 61508: Functional Safety for Industrial Applications

SIL

Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) for safety-critical electrical and electronic systems used in industrial applications

Household Appliances with IEC 60730 Safety Standard

IEC 60730: Functional Safety Standard for Household Appliances

Safety standards for automatic controls in equipment designed to operate in households

Functional Safety Support


When safety is critical to the success of your design, you can count on our proven experience to help you meet functional safety requirements while minimizing cost and development time. Our functional safety support includes functional safety compliant and functional safety ready products. These products encompass the latest hardware safety features and support collateral to help you achieve ISO 26262, IEC 61508 and IEC 60730 safety certification. Some devices are qualified as functional safety compliant, which means we followed the ISO 26262-compliant development process to design them. 

We offer the following resources:

  • AEC-Q100-qualified silicon with specialized hardware safety features
  • Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) report to quantify the device’s fault modes via Failure-In-Time (FIT) rate distribution
  • Functional Safety Manual that provides recommendations on how the device should be used for the safest operation
  • TÜV SÜD-certified MPLAB® XC functional safety compilers and third-party-certified compiler support for a fully qualified and complete development environment
  • ISO 26262-, IEC 61508- and IEC 60730-compliant diagnostic software libraries for select product families
  • Functional safety collateral including pin FMEA, Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA) and other documentation for some product families
Functional Safety Support

Certified Functional Safety Management System

We implement a Functional Safety Management System that covers all levels up to and including ISO 26262’s Automotive Safety Integrity Level ASIL D and IEC 61508’s Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) and Systematic Capability 3 (SC 3). Our Functional Safety Management System has been certified by TÜV Rheinland.

Functional Safety Product Portfolio

Third-party tools, including benchmarking software and compliance management tools (LDRA), are also available for specific devices. The MPLAB XC compilers for functional safety include all the documentation and reports needed to have a fully qualified ISO 26262, IEC 61508, IEC 62304 and IEC 60730 development environment. These packages now include classification documents.

Microcontrollers (MCUs) and
Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs)
AVR® and PIC® MCUs dsPIC® DSCs SAM and PIC32 MCUs
FMEDA Reports Yes1 Yes Yes4
Safety Manual Yes1 Yes Yes4
ISO 26262 ASIL Library Yes Yes (ASIL B/C)2 Yes (ASIL B )4
IEC 61508 SIL Library - Yes (SIL 2/3)2 Yes (SIL 2/3)2
IEC 60730 Class B Library Yes3 Yes3 Yes3
Capacitive Touch Libraries* Yes Yes Yes
AUTOSAR®/MCAL - Yes Yes (QM and ASIL B)
TÜV SÜD-Certified Compilers MPLAB® XC8 MPLAB XC16 MPLAB XC32 and
Third-Party Certified Compilers
Supporting Safety Collateral (Pin FMEA, Dependent Failure Analysis, Soft Error Rate, etc.) - Yes Yes
Code Coverage Tools MPLAB Analysis Tool Suite or third-party tools from vendors such as LDRA

For more information, please contact one of our local sales offices or request a meeting with us.

1SGS-TÜV Saar certified
2TÜV-Rheinland certified
3Certified by UL and Verified by VDE
4Certification planned
*Turnkey capacitive touch controllers, such as the AT42QT1481, are available.

FPGA and SoC Product Portfolio

Our FPGA functional safety design flow simplifies and accelerates safety certifications supporting IEC 61508 and ISO 26262. Our Flash FPGAs are an excellent platform to meet the established standards for safety and reliability requirements. You can use the following FPGA families with Libero® SoC Design Suite for compliance with IEC 61508 up to SIL 3 and ISO 26262 up to ASIL D.

We designed the functional safety packet to assist with IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 certifications. It includes:

  • Libero SoC Design Suite certified by TÜV SÜD
  • Functional safety user guide
  • FPGA and SoC products reliability report
  • Libero SoC Design Suite documentation
  • Relevant IP cores and associated documentation
Interface and Connectivity Products CAN and CAN FD Devices LIN Devices Ethernet I/O Expanders
FMEDA Reports Yes Yes Yes Yes
Safety Manual Yes Yes Yes Yes
AUTOSAR®/MCAL Yes Yes Yes -
Power Management Motor Gate Drivers LDO Regulators
FMEDA Reports Yes Yes
Safety Manual Yes Yes
AUTOSAR®/MCAL - -

Functional Safety Products


Development Ecosystem for Functional Safety Applications


When you are designing functional safety applications, using development tools that are certified for functional safety can make it easier for you to qualify the tools used in your design. To help you with implementing system-level functional safety in your applications, we provide the documentation needed for functional safety qualification for the MPLAB® development ecosystem along with our TÜV SÜD-certified MPLAB XC compilers.

Libero SoC development tools significantly simplify the functional safety qualification process for designs using our FPGA and SoCs, making it easier, faster and more affordable for your system to comply to functional safety standards.

MPLAB X IDE

MPLAB X IDE

Organize, write, test and debug your embedded software applications in the MPLAB X IDE.

MPLAB XC Compiler

MPLAB XC Compiler

Build your embedded software with the TÜV SÜD-certified MPLAB XC8 Pro Functional Safety Compiler.

MPLAB Code Configurator

MPLAB Analysis Tool Suite

MPLAB Analysis Tool Suite offers a code coverage feature and a Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA®) check in the IDE. 

FPGA Design Tools

Explore our comprehensive selection of hardware and software development tools to accelerate your application development with FPGAs and SoCs.

Our third-party partners also offer safety-certified compilers and tools supporting many of our products.

Vendor/Product Description
IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm® ISO 26262, IEC 61508 and IEC 60730 safety standards

Design Partners


Whether you are new to functional safety or a seasoned expert, your safety development and certification can be often be accelerated by involving functional safety design partners early in your project. Our Functional Safety Design Partners have demonstrated their knowledge of functional safety and can assist you with developing projects according to the requirements specified in the ISO 26262, IEC 61508 and IEC 60730 standards.

Functional Safety Design Partners Logo

Microchip University: Introduction to Functional Safety


This class covers the fundamentals of functional safety including terminology, standards, FMEDA, requirements and tools offered by Microchip.

Microchip University

Contact Us


We are here to support you. Contact our client success team to get assistance with the functional safety requirements of your design.











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