Functional safety issues have long been an important part of product development wherever machine operations that are potentially dangerous for humans are carried out unattended. However, in terms of ...

During DAC, Accellera had a workshop about functional safety. In case you don’t know, Accellera has a relatively new working group (WG) on Functional Safety. The chair is Cadence’s Alessandra Nardi, ...

Increasingly stringent safety regulations (for example, the emerging IEC 61508 standard) are driving expansion in the market for machine safety products and technologies. As demand increases for ...

Systems comprised of electrical and/or electronic elements have been used for many years to perform safety functions in most application sectors. Computer-based systems (i.e., programmable electronic ...

In vehicles equipped with Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) or in Autonomous Driving (AD) vehicles, the human driver relies on electrical/electronic systems for control of the vehicle. The ...

DALLAS, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today released a major advancement in electric vehicle (EV) battery management systems (BMS) – the industry's ...

Cars are changing. While a few years back, the main challenges in designing a car were in its mechanics, the new challenge is the design and integration of electronic systems. I still remember my ...

Given rising liability insurance, safety concerns and electric vehicle competition, the new normal for automotive manufacturers is to require upfront engineering rigor to minimize risk and clean-up ...