Hercules TM Microcontrollers : Real - time MCUs for safety - critical products

Electronics continue to play an ever-increasing role in products whose operation is critical to the preservation of human life, whether on the factory floor, during your morning commute, in the operating theater or in a myriad other locations. Ensuring these products always operate in a “safe” manner and meet the stringent functional safety requirements of standards such as IEC 61508 or ISO 26262 is an arduous task. Robust development processes, thorough hazard and risk analyses, thoughtful system designs and careful selection of hardware and software components are all critical to ensuring functional safety. Further increasing the challenge are aggressive time-to-market demands and cost constraints that can be found even in safety-related systems. HerculesTM Microcontrollers: Real-time MCUs for safety-critical products