IoT Edge Device Safety
Nucleus SafetyCert
Purpose-built for embedded applications that require safety certification, this solution reduces risk and cost, and addresses complexity issues such as mixed criticality.
Certification is expensive and time consuming. Typical costs are $50+ per line of source code. Embedded Linux does not offer a certified solution due to cost. Typically an OEM will partition all safety critical applications code to run using the Nucleus SafetyCert APIs and not the regular Nucleus APIs and thus can use the SafetyCert certification artifacts as part of their certification process.
Nucleus® SafetyCert™ is a safety-certified, real-time operating system (RTOS) and middleware package targeting high-performance, next-generation applications. These applications need to meet stringent safety and regulatory requirements in many industries, including avionics, industrial, medical, and automotive.
Nucleus SafetyCert meets the growing need for highly reliable software and shortens the path to regulatory certification. The Nucleus SafetyCert offering is a complete solution, with industry-specific documentation and artifacts that have received third-party certification.
Provides a solution for devices requiring safety certification and regulatory approval
The Nucleus SafetyCert offering includes a certified version of the Nucleus RTOS kernel with Nucleus process model support for space partitioning, runtime libraries, connectivity middleware, networking, and data storage.
The certification package includes source code and the following documentation based on industry-specific requirements:
- Software development
- Software configuration management
- Software quality assurance
- Software requirements
- Software design standards
- Software coding standards
- Software verification
- Software test plan
- Complete software test suite
- Safety manual
The Nucleus SafetyCert documentation and artifacts have clear traceability across the safety lifecycle, and are hyperlinked for ease of navigation to streamline audits and reviews.
Addresses broad vertical markets
Nucleus SafetyCert has been verified and documented to meet the certification requirements for device manufacturers developing safety related software for avionics requiring DO-178C Level A, industrial requiring IEC 61508 SIL 3, medical requiring IEC 62304 Class C, and automotive requiring ISO 26262 ASIL B.
For mixed criticality designs or added system reliability, the Nucleus SafetyCert process model implements a lightweight framework to create spatial partitions of memory for both critical and non-critical functions. Using the Nucleus process model for mixed criticality designs can reduce overall software design complexity, testing, and costs normally associated with regulatory certification.
Every line of code in Nucleus SafetyCert has been verified, tested, and documented to ensure the functional design requirements for every aspect of the runtime have been met and validated.
Leverages proven Mentor development and quality processes
Nucleus SafetyCert is designed to handle the safety critical code - the most important software component - to create safety certifiable devices based on a certified operating system that leverages Mentor’s disciplined quality control processes and is supported by Mentor’s dedicated safety engineering team.
The SafetyCert certification package includes the test harness, all test cases, and a complete process plan to enable users to augment the documentation and artifacts. With the Nucleus SafetyCert offering users can make device driver and BSP changes which can be verified, tested, and documented for regulatory approval.
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