Digi-Key at electronica 2022 with Microchip

Microchip is a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs, which reduce risk while lowering total system cost an time to market. Serving more than 120,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defence, communications and computing markets, Microchip’s vision is to be the greatest embedded solutions company in the world.

Functional safety

You must have safety systems in place within a system that can cause harm to humans. The developer of that system must ensure that if there is potential harm, it is managed in some way. There are many ways to do this, the first being to ensure the specification is right and there are no software errors. 

It differs from safety features in that safety features are a functional thing, while functional safety is making sure that function is working. 

Svendsli offers an example of an engine failure when he travelled from Copenhagen to LA to better illustrate.