SmartFusion FPGAs® 2 and IGLOOS® 2 now incorporate IEC 61508 certification for its benefits to mitigate single events (Single Event Upset, SEU)
Systems used in many high-reliability applications in commercial aviation, space, defense, automotive, and industry require certification to the IEC 61508 SIL (Safety Integrity Level) 3 functional safety specification. Microchip Technology (Nasdaq:MCHP) continues to certify its products and tools to industry security specifications in order to reduce the cost of this process and speed time-to-market for system developers. In this sense, it has now added IEC 61508 SIL 3 certification packages for two other families of its FPGA SoC (System-on-Chip) and FPGA.
"Microchip's FPGA families have always held a strong and broad position in the industrial marketplace and are recognized for the high reliability and security of our nonvolatile FPGA technologies," said Bruce Weyer, corporate vice president of Microchip's FPGA business unit. . “We also have a long history of certifying our products and tools to IEC 61508 SIL 3 and other safety specifications to make the end-equipment certification process much easier for our customers. The addition of these packages for our FPGA SoC SmartFusion 2 and FPGA
IGLOO 2 low power is a natural extension for industrial customers designing high reliability products for smart grid, automation controllers, process analyzers and other safety critical applications.”
Microchip's security suites are based on the best SEU-immune Flash-based FPGA fabric of the devices Smart Fusion 2 y IGLOO 2, certified by the independent safety assessor TÜV Rhineland®. These packages include the Libero certification® SoC Design Suite v11.8 Service Pack 4 and associated Microchip development tools, as well as 28 Intellectual Property (IP) cores, safety manuals, documentation, and device data sheets. A safety certificate from TÜV Rhineland is also delivered.
Microchip also helps protect its customers' long-term certification investments by enforcing customer-defined obsolescence criteria, under which Microchip commits to producing devices used in a certified system for as long as customers want to order and Microchip can get all of them. the sub-elements of a device. This increases confidence that re-certification does not have to be repeated, and also decreases the risk of a device unexpectedly reaching end of life, forcing redesign or changes to the tool flow.
