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16 years ago

Altera FPGA in safety application

Hello, We plan to build a FPGA based system for a safety relevant application. Has anyone experience with the certification of such a system? Is there any general advices that you could give me...
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16 years ago

You're assumptions about processor failure mechanisms won't convince a safety auditor, I think. You can also imagine many kinds of failure that are undetectable by a watchdog circuit.

But I assume, that hardware redundancy (using separate FPGAs) is necessary, if the device operation can't be supervized otherwise.