SAN JOSE, Calif., May 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation
(NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced the availability of the latest
version of its Industrial Functional Safety Data Package (Ver. 3),
for systems designers using Altera field programmable gate arrays
(FPGAs). The safety pack provides TUV Rheinland-certified
toolflows, IP and devices including Cyclone V FPGAs, enabling
faster time for market for industrial safety solutions to IEC 61508
up to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL3).
Under industrial safety mandates, industrial equipment must be
certified to ensure electrical, electronic or programmable
electronic systems that carry out safety functions meet
industry-standard safety guidelines. Generally, such products must
fulfill requirements of the IEC 61508 standard to safety integrity
level 3 (SIL 3), and meet the ISO 13849 standard to performance
level category 4 (PL e Cat 4.)
In addition, as the complexity of safety designs increases, the
need to provide advanced safety functions and to integrate safety
functionality with the application, has led to the need for
advanced certified toolflows, such as Altera Safety Design
Partitioning toolflow, offered in this latest version of the
Functional Safety Data Package. This partitioning toolflow gives
designers the ability to separate the safe and non-safe portions of
the design, allowing user updates of the non-safe portion with
minimal safety re-certification effort.
"Without certified toolflows such as those Altera's safety
package provides, customers are left with the challenge of
certifying the tools and devices themselves, which require they use
older versions of the tools and subsequently, older less-capable
technology," said Roger May, system
architect and Functional Safety lead in the Altera Industrial
Business Unit, "With the release of our third generation of our
Functional Safety Data Package, customers can continue to
confidently use Altera's latest devices and toolflows to address
the challenges they are seeing today in designing safety
systems."
For more information on the Altera industrial automation and
functional safety solutions, please visit
https://www.altera.com/solutions/industry/industrial/applications/automation/functional-safety.html.
Altera-based Board from NewTec Now Available
Altera today, also announced the availability the Cyclone
V-based SafeFlex Functional Safety board from partner NewTec GmbH,
which was demonstrated at the SPS IC Drives event in Nuremberg, in
November, 2014 and satisfies the requirement for IEC 61508 to SIL
3in addition to ISO 13849 to PL e Cat 4. The board and associated
documentation and reference design will allow systems designers who
are new to safety to understand best industry practices when
implementing safety systems up to SIL3 & PL e Cat 4 on Altera
FPGA's,. allowing Altera customers to accelerate their designs. For
more information on the SafeFlex board visit
www.newtec.de/web/en/spectrum/SafetySolutions/SafeFlex/SafeFlex.php
Altera Cyclone FPGAs
Altera's Cyclone® V FPGAs provide the industry's lowest system
cost and power, along with performance levels that make the device
family ideal for differentiating your high-volume applications.
With up to 40 percent lower total power compared with the previous
generation, they offer efficient logic integration capabilities,
integrated transceiver variants enabling great flexibility for
systems designers.
About Altera
Altera® programmable solutions enable designers of electronic
systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and
win in their markets. Altera offers FPGA, SoC, CPLD, and
complementary technologies, such as power solutions to
provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide. Visit
Altera at www.altera.com.
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