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Low-Cost ASIL C/SIL 2-Compliant AVR® SD MCUs


Reduce the cost and development time of your functional safety application with our AVR SD MCUs. Designed to comply with the ISO 26262 (ASIL C) and IEC 61508 (SIL 2) functional safety standards, these MCUs facilitate the certification of your end system with a complete suite of safety documentation (FMEDAs, safety manual, DFA, compliance reports and more). AVR SD MCUs offer built-in hardware safety features for fast and deterministic error detection and they are accompanied by ASIL C/SIL 2-compliant software (safety framework) and safety-related software documentation.

Reduce cost and development time for functional safety applications with AVR SD MCUs, which are designed for ISO 26262 (ASIL C) and IEC 61508 (SIL 2) compliance.

Functional Safety Enhanced Features


  • 2x AVR CPU in dual-core lockstep (DCLS) configuration
  • Dedicated Error-Controller for autonomous fault handling (under 1ms fault detection time)
  • Specialized error injection mechanisms in hardware
  • Single-Error Correcting and Double-Error Detecting (SECDED) ECC on Flash, SRAM and EEPROM memories
  • Automated Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRCSCAN) memory scan
  • Dual Watchdog timers (synchronous and asynchronous)
  • Redundant Clock Failure Detection (CFD) and Clock Frequency Measurement (CFM) modules
  • Parity protection on address, data, control and instruction bus system
  • 2x 10-bit Analog-to-Digital (ADC) converters with independent voltage reference sources
  • Integrated level shifter (Multi Voltage IO)

Safety Software


These devices feature a comprehensive safety framework designed in compliance with ASIL C and SIL 2 requirements. It assists users with a structured application flow, simplifying the addition of user tasks while ensuring device-level safety. By leveraging this framework, the system integrator can achieve a compliant safety system running on the device.

Features:

  • ASIL C/SIL 2-compliant software with functional safety documentation 
  • Diagnostic tests for built-in safety mechanisms (latent fault detection)
  • Centralized software error handling manager
  • Ability to schedule diagnostics to meet the required fault detection time interval for safe system monitoring
  • Provides an interface to the hardware safety features
  • Enables hardware and software error injection mechanisms
  • Compliance with several Assumptions of Use (AoUs) and software requirements described in the safety manual

If you have any questions about the software, please email the Functional Safety Team at pic_avr.functionalsafety@microchip.com.

Functional safety package with FMEDAs, safety manual, software diagnostic library and compliance reports

Functional Safety Documentation


Functional Safety Tool Kit

ISO 26262 Basic Package

The automotive basic package for the AVR SD family contains:

  • FMEDA
  • Safety Manual
Functional Safety Tool Kit

IEC 61508 Basic Package

The industrial basic Package for the AVR SD family contains:

  • FMEDA
  • Safety Manual

Development Ecosystem


The AVR32SD32 (EV75S16A) Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit enables rapid prototyping and development to quickly test and iterate designs.

We offer the MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE), MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC Melody), MPLAB XC8 Certified Functional Safety Compiler license, ASIL C/SIL 2 compliant safety framework and functional safety packages to streamline the application development and the process of certifying a product for functional safety.

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