Reduce Development Time, System Complexity, and Certification Risk Qualified Functional Safety Data Package Industrial automation, transportation, the smart grid, automotive, military and aerospace, and medical require that machinery and products are highly reliable, safe, and certified for functional safety. Safety is a central requirement when you develop machinery that must comply with worldwide established safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262. When you develop a safe product, you need to consider safety as a core system functionality. Design challenges include: * Adopting quality management standards, a "safe" design methodology, and safety concepts * Accounting for additional project effort (time and technology), resulting in longer time to market and higher cost of ownership Impact of Functional Safety Typical design steps to develop an application, before safety: Architecture Development Component Selection Application Design Implementation Integration and Test Release If you add some of the required steps to design a safe application and achieve functional safety certification (shown in yellow), you can see the significant project complexity: Project Startup, Risk Analysis Architecture Development Safety Requirements Specification Validation, Verification Plan Component Selection Component IP and Tools Qualification Application Design Implementation Safety/ Diagnostic Functions Integration and Test Safety Validation Certification Release Having immediate access to qualified semiconductor data, intellectual property (IP), development flows, and design tools from a vendor like Altera can help you significantly shorten your overall project timeline by 1 1/2 years to 2 years: Project Startup, Risk Analysis Architecture Development Safety Requirements Specification Validation, Verification Plan Component Selection Application Design Implementation Component IP and Tools Qualification Integration and Test Safety Validation Safety/Diagnostic Functions Certification Release 18-24 Month Time Savings Altera Certificate Accelerating Development Altera Functional Safety Data Package Contents To simplify and speed up the certification process for faster time to market, we worked with TUV Rheinland and obtained approval for Altera(R) FPGA devices, IP, our established safety FPGA design flow, and development tools for safety designs up to the Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3). This certification means that our tools, methodologies, and devices are sufficiently free of systematic errors. Functional Data Safety Package Benefit Altera FPGA development methodology Qualified, safe design methodology Altera FPGA development tools Qualified tools IP Safe-to-use system components to speed up application development Diagnostic IP Shorten design time for safety architecture Device reliability reports, guidelines Simplifies risk analysis, failures in time (FITs) calculation Formatted according to IEC 61508 Seamless integration into project documentation Altera FPGAs Provide Flexible Safety Solutions Figure 1 illustrates a typical industrial controller application. It integrates standard ("non-safe") and safety functions with very few board components using FPGA devices, such as the Altera Cyclone(R) FPGA, and a soft processor core, such as the Nios(R) II processor. In this example, all three embedded controllers are Nios II soft-core processors, each with an individual custom peripheral set. Safety Data Package Contents: * Application Note: Silicon Integration - How to qualify devices using the reliability report * Application Note: Tools and Tool Flow - How to use Quartus(R) II software and develop FPGAs systems according to IEC 61508 * Suggested RTL coding guidelines for FPGA development * Diagnostic IP with IEC 61508 standard documentation and source code: single event upset (SEU) test, clock check, and cyclic redundancy check (CRC) test modules * Quartus II software version 11.0 SP1 * Altera-qualified devices up to Cyclone IV and Stratix(R) IV FPGAs and MAX(R) II and MAX II Z CPLDs * IP including Nios(R) II embedded processor * Latest FPGA device reliability report With such a safety-focused architecture for a SIL3 certified application, you can reduce the total cost of ownership, design footprint, and power consumption while meeting the global requirements for functional safety. Figure 1: A Typical SIL3 Industrial "Safe" System Encoder / Sensor FPGA Encoder I/F Safe I/O Safe I/O Custom Logic Motor Controller Safety Controller 1 Safety Controller 2 Architectures where safety Application Custom Fieldbus/IE typically is an after-thought often Processor PWM Controller use bolt-on safety option boards and dual microcontroller units Drive Power Fieldbus/ (MCUs) that detect system Sensor Industrial failures. Using an option card Ethernet increases the cost significantly. Integrating a SIL3 "safe" solution in a pre-qualified FPGA with standard application functions on the main board not only lowers the safety cost footprint, but it also enhances system flexibility and shortens development time. It is designed with safety as a core system functionality in mind. If you are concerned about the lack of flexibility, long development times, or device certification issues that come with traditional safety architectures, Altera's FPGAs are the ideal solution. TUV Rheinland Certificate No. 968/EL 850.00/12 Product Order Numbers Functional Safety Data Package: IP-ABG-SafetyDP2 Annual Renewal: IPR-ABG-SafetyDP2 Want to Dig Deeper? For more information on developing IEC 61508 systems with FPGAs and the Functional Safety Data Package, please contact your local Altera or distributor sales office or visit the Functional Safety page at www.altera.com/safety. Altera Corporation Altera European Headquarters Altera Japan Ltd. Altera International Ltd. 101 Innovation Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA www.altera.com Holmers Farm Way High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP12 4XF United Kingdom Telephone: (44) 1 94 602 000 Shinjuku i-Land Tower 32F 6-5-1, Nishi-Shinjuku Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1332 Japan Telephone: (81) 3 3340 9480 www.altera.co.jp Unit 11-18, 9/F Millennium City 1, Tower 1 388 Kwun Tong Road Kwun Tong Kowloon, Hong Kong Telephone: (852) 2945 7000 (c) 2012 Altera Corporation. All rights reserved. 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