How TI can help you design functionally safe systems

TI’s product portfolio ranges from motor drivers and gate drivers to MCUs based on proprietary CPU architectures, including C2000™ and Arm® Cortex®-based MCUs such as the AM2434BSDFHIALVR. These products have advanced diagnostic features and on-chip sensing peripherals that can detect and react to failures quickly while minimizing system downtime (and in an industrial environment, increasing factory productivity).

To help you find the most effective device for a functionally safe design, TI has defined three categories of products suitable for use in functionally safe applications: TI Functional Safety-Capable, TI Functional Safety Quality-Managed and TI Functional Safety-Compliant. (Our motor drivers, gate drivers and MCUs are typically TI Functional Safety-Compliant products.)

TI designs and builds these products to meet the systematic capability compliance recommendations of IEC 61508 and ISO 26262, enabling you to build safe and reliable motor-control and drive systems. We support each device with a failure mode, effects, and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA); a functional safety manual; and (if applicable) a safety diagnostics library, with system and subsystem functional safety concept reports available on TI.com or by request. TI MCU’s functional safety manuals include an in-context look at the SEooC and outline possible fault groups for example applications.

Examples of our design resources include a "TÜV SÜD-assessed STO module for industrial drives in the TUEV-Assessed Safe Torque Off (STO) Reference Design for Industrial Drives (IEC 61800-5-2). Learn more about our functional safety products and view design resources at www.ti.com/technologies/functional-safety.html.

TI has experience with ISO 26262 SEooCs and IEC 61508-compliant items, and the types of functionally safe systems TI products are used in. Of course, realizing these benefits requires balancing the complex needs of developing both the intended function and the safety function.