Medical software is the backbone of modern healthcare, supporting electronic health records (EHRs), diagnostic systems, imaging technologies and embedded software in medical devices like pacemakers ...

Forward-looking: Google adds its voice to the growing consensus for an industry-wide progress towards secure programming practices. There is a standardization opportunity for every player involved in ...

Texas Instruments announced that its SafeTI functional safety software development process is now certified as suitable for development of ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 compliant software components. Texas ...

BlackBerry Limited BB has enhanced its trusted QNX OS for Safety by introducing a unique POSIX-compliant filesystem that includes integrity checking. This addition offers original equipment ...

In the functional safety world, once a system is developed, it remains protected as long as the system is in service. In contrast, the security world demands that software must continue to defend a ...

Learn about the importance of testing not only the hardware and software inside automotive and other safety-critical applications, but also the software tools used to program them in the first place.

Complete, unambiguous, and correct software requirements, including safety or security requirements. Correct and consistent design specifications without extraneous functionality. Compiler-produced ...

The growing dependency of modern automobiles on electronic functions increases the need for a variety of integrated circuits (ICs) for safety-critical applications. Requirements coming from different ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...