Functional
Safety

For critical systems, functional safety as a product characteristic involves extensive analyses and their documentation during development. We understand functional safety as a process and product task with a regulatory background and best practices.

Expertise for your functional safety project

Functional Safety up to Certification

Achieving goals with relaxed confidence through expertise – we plan with you to implement functional and non-functional safety requirements, ensuring systems and processes seamlessly align.

We offer the following services for this:

  • Creation of technical security concepts
  • Phased verification
  • Process and QM Consulting for High-Tech Electronics
  • Planning for Redundancy and Resilience
  • Derivation of safety-relevant requirements
  • Overall technical security assessment
  • Technical Risk Management
  • Reliability Management

Functionally Safe Embedded Systems

The requirements for embedded systems in safety-critical applications are constantly increasing. Functional safety (FuSi) is indispensable, especially in industries such as electronics, rail, automotive, or medical technology, to design systems that are reliable, robust, and compliant with standards. We develop customized solutions that meet the highest safety requirements in both hardware and software development.

To efficiently and transparently implement security requirements, we rely on proven methods and techniques such as:

  • Redundancy
  • Defensive Programming
  • Certified Compilers
  • Certified Toolchains
  • Software testing
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
  • Safety Integrity Level (SIL, ASIL)
  • Hardware Fault Tolerance (HFT)
  • Diagnostic Coverage
  • Watchdog Concepts
  • Memory Protection Units (MPU)
  • ECC-protected memory
  • Lockstep processors
  • RTOS Real-Time Operating Systems
  • Test automation
  • Fault injection tests
  • Traceability (Requirements Traceability)
  • Built-In Self Test (BIST)
  • Structural Core Tests
  • Latent Fault Metrics
  • System Monitoring

Functional Safety Across Industries

Industry-specific Safety concepts

We support customers from the defense, automotive, rail, and industrial sectors with requirements management, validation, and verification of safety-critical embedded systems. Our safety designs consider the specific operating environment as well as the necessary protective measures for risk mitigation and achieving the defined safety integrity level (SIL). Through systematic hardware and software development, we ensure that every safety device reliably meets the requirements for the specified integrity level.

EN/IEC 61508

Industry / General.

EN ISO 13849

Machines

EN/IEC 62061

Machines

EN 5012x

Railway systems

ISO 26262

Automobile and motor vehicles

MIL-STD-882

Military System Safety