SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc.
(NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its Zynq®
UltraScale+™ MPSoC family has been assessed as SIL 3, HFT1 capable,
according the IEC 61508 functional-safety specification, by Exida,
the leading functional safety certification agency. This assessment
means product developers can build new high-performing systems
including artificial intelligence (AI) for safety-critical
applications using Xilinx's feature-rich, highly integrated
single-chip MPSoC family, with the assurance of IEC 61508
functional-safety certification up to Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL
3).
"AI-based systems need to be safe systems," said Yousef Khalilollahi, vice president, core
vertical markets, Xilinx. "Today's announcement underscores our
leadership in this new category of devices, further raising
performance and extending design flexibility. Zynq UltraScale+
MPSoC was designed with safety and security in mind and is the
ideal architecture to support industrial IoT or Industrie 4.0 platforms and future
generations of automotive, aviation, and AI-based systems."
The independent assessment of the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC family
is a significant milestone in Xilinx's functional safety
offerings. The achievement built upon the industry's first
commercial ARM-based SoC, the Zynq-7000, able to demonstrate
compliance to functional safety requirements for on-chip redundancy
(HFT=1). Both device families leverage Xilinx's competencies
in implementing isolated function domains on a single die with
hardware protection mechanisms, creating the required hardware
fault tolerance consistent with on-chip redundancy (HFT=1). In
addition, developers can take advantage of the embedded FPGA fabric
to accelerate performance beyond conventional software-based
systems and thus achieve the fast response times and low latency
typically required of safety-critical systems. Xilinx has also
introduced safety-enhanced automotive-qualified XA Zynq UltraScale+
MPSoCs, certified to ISO 26262 ASIL C.
Combined with the recent IEC 61508 safety certification of the
supporting Vivado® Design Suite by TÜV Süd and the MicroBlaze™
compiler for additional soft processors by SGS-TÜV Saar, Xilinx now
provides a complete ecosystem based on robust design flows that
includes supporting documentation, assessment reports, and IP to
minimize risks for customers. Moreover, each of the four leading
functional-safety assessment bodies has now indicated acceptance of
Xilinx's methodologies for establishing functional safety of
monolithic silicon devices and design flows.
Developers can find tools and resources to support highly
integrated safety-critical systems design by purchasing access to
Xilinx's online Functional Safety Lounge. Privileges include access
to the Safety Manual for Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, device and
architecture updates, tool-flows and documentation including future
reports and assessments. To learn more, visit:
https://www.xilinx.com/applications/industrial/functional-safety.html
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About Xilinx
Xilinx develops highly flexible and
adaptive processing platforms that enable rapid innovation across a
variety of technologies—from the endpoint to the edge to the cloud.
Xilinx is the inventor of the FPGA, hardware programmable SoCs, and
the ACAP, designed to deliver the most dynamic processor technology
in the industry and enable the adaptable, intelligent, and
connected world of the future. For more information,
visit www.xilinx.com.
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