Designing safe and reliable automotive applications to ensure customer safety is critical. To meet these rigorous safety requirements, we offer a broad portfolio of functional safety compliant/ready dsPIC33 Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) that encompass the latest hardware safety features and support collateral to help you achieve ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL B) certification for your design. You can also achieve the higher ASIL C and ASIL D safety levels through decomposition.
You can use our dsPIC33C DSCs in safety-critical, high-performance embedded, sensor interfacing, digital power and motor control applications for the automotive market targeting ISO 26262 compliance.
Many new dsPIC33 DSCs are qualified as functional safety compliant, which means they are designed by following the TÜV Rheinland-certified, ISO 26262-compliant development process. Our AEC-Q100 Grade 0- and Grade 1-qualified dsPIC33 DSCs include the following resources to simplify safety certification of your automotive designs:
*Targeting ASIL C safety level is device dependent and requires adherence to ASIL decomposition techniques.
Whether you are new to ISO 26262 functional safety or a seasoned expert, you can count on our proven experience and solutions to help you meet functional safety requirements, while minimizing cost, risk and development time.
*The complete list of supported modules and diagnostic functions offered within the libraries in ISO 26262 functional safety starter and advanced packages are shared under NDA.
For more information about our functional safety packages, please contact your local Microchip Sales Office.
*Functional Safety packages for diagnostics for dsPIC33C DSCs must be purchased separately.
For more information about our functional safety packages, please contact your local Microchip Sales Office.
Our ISO 26262 Functional Safety Solutions brochure provides additional details about the Functional Safety packages, the associated safety solutions within each package and supported device families.
Our comprehensive portfolio of AEC-Q100 Grade 0- and Grade 1-qualified automotive dsPIC33 DSCs provides real-time response and high reliability in extreme operating conditions, including extreme temperatures, and features for functional safety and security to meet your automotive design challenges.
Target applications: high-performance real-time control, motor control, digital power, capacitive sensing, sensor interfacing and measurement control.
Target applications: 5V robust designs, motor control, high-performance real-time control, capacitive sensing, sensor interfacing and measurement control
When you are designing functional safety applications, using development tools that meet the requirements of safety standards can make it easier for you to create compliant systems. To help you with implementing system-level functional safety in your applications, our MPLAB® XC C compilers are TÜV SÜD-certified for several functional safety standards. We also provide the complete certification packages for our MPLAB development tools ecosystem to help you qualify your projects. The tools package includes:
SAFERTOS, by WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems, is an ISO 26262 pre-certified safety Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and it is compatible with our dsPIC33 DSCs.
You can typically achieve higher safety levels through ASIL decomposition and redundancy.
ASIL C = ASIL B(C) + ASIL A(C)
ASIL D = ASIL B(D) + ASIL B(D), where the combination of the DSCs enables meeting the ASIL C or ASIL D safety goal
Please contact one of our local sales offices for additional information or our Client Success team for assistance with sales, product inquiries and support on new designs.