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IEC 61508 Industrial Functional Safety Ready Products
IEC 61508 is an international standard for functional safety of Electrical, Electronic and Programmable Electronic (E/E/PE) systems. It defines functional safety as part of the overall safety of an Equipment Under Control (EUC) or system.
Our broad portfolio of IEC 61508 functional safety ready and compliant devices offers reliable operation in harsh environments. Many new devices are qualified as functional safety compliant, which means they were designed by following the TÜV Rheinland-certified, IEC 61508-compliant development process. These devices make it easy for your applications to comply with IEC 61508 Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 and you can achieve compliance with the higher SIL 3 safety level through redundancy.
IEC 61508 functional safety compliant and ready MCUs and DSCs encompass the latest hardware safety features and a comprehensive safety ecosystem to simplify the design and certification of safety-critical industrial applications. We offer:
- Specialized hardware safety features to achieve safety goals
- IEC 61508 Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) report to quantify the device’s fault modes via Failure In Time (FIT)
- IEC 61508 functional safety manual that provides recommendations on how the device should be used for the safest operation
- Functional safety diagnostic libraries (TUV Rheinland-certified for selected products)
- TÜV SÜD-certified MPLAB® XC compilers and third-party certified compiler support for a fully qualified and complete development environment
We implement a TÜV Rheinland-certified Functional Safety Management System that covers up to and including IEC 61508’s Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3) and Systematic Capability 3 (SC 3).
PIC18 and AVR® MCUs
These affordable and low-power MCUs are popular as main controllers for capacitive touch interfaces and in smaller designs and as safety co-processors in larger designs.
Safety resources include:
- FMEDA
- Safety Manual
- Diagnostic libraries (coming soon)
dsPIC33 DSCs
These functional safety-ready and compliant, high-performance, real-time DSCs contain Digital Signal Processor (DSP) engines for advanced sensing and control, capacitive touch, motor control and digital power applications.
Safety resources include:
- FMEDA Report
- Functional Safety Manual (FSM)
- Certified diagnostic libraries for designs targeting levels up to SIL 2 or SIL 3 (through decomposition)
- Functional safety reference application
- Safety analysis and traceability reports
SAM and PIC32 MCUs
These MCUs contain a powerful, industry-standard Arm® Cortex-M0+ processor core.
Safety resources include:
- FMEDA (coming soon)*
- Safety Manual
- Certified self-test libraries for designs targeting levels up to SIL 3
- Safety levels and safety analysis and traceability reports
- Safety checklist
FPGAs and SoCs
Our Libero® SoC Design Suite is TÜV Rheinland certified to accelerate end-product functional safety certification based on the IEC 61508 specification for industrial and medical segments. Our FPGAs enable solutions such as encoders in motor control, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), smart grids, power generation, sub-sea drilling, patient diagnostic and monitoring devices and more.
Safety resources include:
- Certified Libero SoC Design Suite
- Functional safety user guide
- FPGA and SoC product reliability report
- Libero SoC Design Suite documentation
- Relevant IP cores and associated documentation
*In development
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 certified 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
Organize, write, test and debug your embedded software applications in the MPLAB X IDE.
MPLAB XC Compiler
Build your embedded software with the TÜV SÜD-certified MPLAB XC8 Pro Functional Safety Compiler.
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.
