
3
Reference safety architecture
This section reports details of the STM32L4 and Series safety architecture.
3.1
Safety architecture introduction
Device
(s) analyzed in this document can be used as
Compliant item
(s) within different safety applications.
The aim of this section is to identify such
Compliant item
(s), that is, to define the context of the analysis with
respect to a reference concept definition. The concept definition contains reference safety requirements, including
design aspects external to the defined
Compliant item
.
As a consequence of
Compliant item
approach, the goal is to list the system-related information considered
during the analysis, rather than to provide an exhaustive hazard and risk analysis of the system around
Device
. Such information includes, among others, application-related assumptions for danger factors, frequency
of failures and diagnostic coverage already guaranteed by the application.
3.2
Compliant item
This section defines the
Compliant item
term and provides information on its usage in different safety architecture
schemes.
3.2.1
Definition of Compliant item
According to IEC 61508:1 clause 8.2.12,
Compliant item
is any item (for example an element) on which a claim is
being made with respect to the clauses of IEC 61508 series. Any mature
Compliant item
must be described in a
safety manual available to
End user
.
In this document,
Compliant item
is defined as a system including one or two STM32 devices (see
communication bus is directly or indirectly connected to sensors and actuators.
Figure 2.
STM32 as Compliant item
Remote
controller
Remote
controller
Remote
controller
Remote
controller
Sensor
Actuator
S
S
A
A
Processing element
Compliant item
STM32
device(s)
Other components might be related to
Compliant item
, like the external HW components needed to guarantee
either the functionality of
Device
(external memory, clock quartz and so on) or its safety (for example, the external
watchdog or voltage supervisors).
A defined
Compliant item
can be classified as
element
according to IEC61508-4, 3.4.5.
3.2.2
Safety functions performed by Compliant item
In essence,
Compliant item
architecture encompasses the following processes performing the safety function or a
part of it:
•
input processing elements (PEi) reading safety related data from the remote controller connected to the
sensor(s) and transferring them to the following computation elements
•
computation processing elements (PEc) performing the algorithm required by the safety function and
transferring the results to the following output elements
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