Developing safety-critical systems? This book is for you

In-depth volume covers development of systems under the IEC 61508, ISO 26262, EN 50128, and IEC 62304 standards

Paul Leroux

In June, I told you of an upcoming book by my colleague Chris Hobbs, who works as a software safety specialist here at QNX Software Systems. Well, I’m happy to say that the book is now available. It’s called Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems and it explores design practices for building medical devices, railway control systems, industrial control systems, and, of course, automotive ADAS devices.

The book:

• covers the development of safety-critical systems under ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 50128, and IEC 62304
• helps developers learn how to justify their work to external auditors
• discusses the advantages and disadvantages of architectural and design practices recommended in the standards, including replication and diversification, anomaly detection, and so-called “safety bag” systems
• examines the use of open-source components in safety-critical systems

Interested? I invite to you to visit the CRC Press website, where you can view the full Table of Contents and, of course, order the book.

Looking forward to getting my copy!

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Austria August 2015

Austria: Next battle to breakdown the establishment?

PHEV's Included Edition

Now with some PHEV data available, allows us to have a more complete picture of the current EV scene in Austria, last month sales were up 78%, with sales on track to beat last year result (1.772 units) and establish a new all time record, will we see it reach the 2.000 units?

Looking at the models ranking, the Model S saw its sales fall 60% regarding July, but still, the 42 units registered placed it above the Mercedes E-Class (41 units last month), placing the american car in Third on the E-Segment/Full Size class, only behind the BMW 5-Series (127 units) and Audi A6 (123). Not bad...

Looking elsewhere, the BMW i3 and Renault Zoe are continuing a long lasting race between the two, only this time is for #2 and the Nissan Leaf might still have a word on it.

 The manufacturers ranking shows Tesla in First (25% Share), with Renault in Second (17%), and BMW in Third (14%), although the last place in the podium might soon change, as #4 Nissan (13%) and VW (12%) too close for the bavarian automaker to rest. 

Pl	Austria	Aug.	YTD	%	'14Pl
1	Tesla Model S	42	322	25	4
2 3	Renault Zoe BMW i3	19 12	172 147	13 11	1 2
4	Nissan Leaf	16	140	11	5
5	Volkswagen e-Golf e)	10	108	8	11
6 7 8	Kia Soul EV e) Renault Twizy Volkswagen e-Up! e)	10 4 5	67 57 49	5 4 4	14 8 3
9 10 10 10 10	Mercedes B-Class ED e) BMW i8 Audi A3 e-Tron e) Mitsu Outlander PHEV e) Volvo V60 Plug-In e)	5 2 5 5 5	46 44 40 40 40	4 3 3  3  3	N/A N/A N/A  8  6
13	Smart Fortwo ED		36	3	9
14	Nissan e-NV200 / Evalia		21	2	12
15	Porsche 918	4	13	1	N/A
16 16 18 19 19	Mitsubishi I-Miev Volkswagen XL1 Ford Focus Electric Citröen C-Zero Peugeot iOn	2 1	3 3 2 1 1	0 0 0  0 0	13 N/A 15 N/A  N/A
	TOTAL	142	1.312	100

Source: Best Selling Cars Blog

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