by Martina Riebenbauer | Nov 10, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Reliability, Safety
In my second part of the blog series, I want to point out the importance of soft error rates and their consideration in applications in different industries. Furthermore, I will touch upon the evaluation methods of soft error rates, and the possible mitigation and...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Oct 20, 2020 | Reliability, Safety
Soft errors are well known in the informatics as special form of errors, which could cause an unexpected and unintentional state of a logic circuit or data memory. Other than errors caused by defects in the hardware which permanently change the system, only temporary...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Sep 22, 2020 | Medical Devices, Safety
One of the key topics over the last few years in the medical device sector is the introduction of Software as a Medical Device SaMD. The activities initially driven by the International Medical Device Regulators Forum (IMDRF) then finding its way into standards such...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Sep 1, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
In the first part of this blog (Software Safety Analysis Part 1) we looked at requirements management and traceability as key activities in the reliable implementation of software projects. In this part of the blog we look at the importance of a qualitative overview...
by Kirstin McKellar | Aug 19, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
A hot topic for many years has been the definition of the best safety (risk) analysis technique for analysing potential software malfunctions. Like many discussions of this nature there is no clear answer and the decision is often application and complexity dependent....
by Kirstin McKellar | Aug 5, 2020 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, Safety
The challenges of safety-related continuous delivery In our previous blog we looked at the way the medical device sector is evolving. Specifically, we explored why this can lend itself to support the activities of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery...
