SCIOPTA Systems AG is announcing the immediate availability of the SCIOPTA Real-Time Operating System certified to IEC61508/EN50128 by TÜV Munich for the Freescale PowerPC Microprocessors to be used in safety related systems up to SIL3. It includes high quality diagnostic functions for internal kernel data with a Safe Failure Fraction of 90% and many other safety functions.
The SCIOPTA Safety Kernel INT is written in highly optimized assembler and specifically tuned for the PowerPC microprocessors. This results in a very high performance and a low memory footprint.
The SCIOPTA Safety Kernel IINT has been developed according to: risk level SIL3 (IEC61508-3) and SIL3/4 (EN50128). It has been tested by TÜV according to: IEC 61508-1:2010, IEC 61508-2:2010 (data integrity only), IEC 61508-3:2010, IEC61508-4:2010 and EN 50128:2011.
The SCIOPTA Safety Kernel INT delivery contains the Certificate, the Certfication Report of Functional Safety and the Safety Manual, which provides guidance on how to safely use SCIOPTA.
SCIOPTA is royalty free and is certified to be used with the Windriver/DIAB C/C++ Compiler.
About IEC61508
IEC 61508 covers functional safety of safety-related systems that use electrical and/or electronic and/or programmable electronic (E/E/PE) technologies. The standard applies to these systems irrespective of their application.
An E/E/PE safety-related system covers all parts of the system that are necessary to carry out the safety function (i.e. from a sensor, through control logic and communication systems, to the final actuator, including any critical actions of a human operator).
The Standard Consists of 7 Parts:
– IEC 61508-1, General requirements
– IEC 61508-2, Requirements for electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safetyrelated systems
– IEC 61508-3, Software requirements
– IEC 61508-4, Definitions and abbreviations
– IEC 61508-5, Examples of methods for the determination of safety integrity levels
– IEC 61508-6, Guidelines on the application of IEC 61508- 2 and IEC 61508-3
– IEC 61508-7, Overview of measures and techniques
