BLG 542E - Safety Critical.Compu.Systems

Course Objectives

A broad understanding of safety related issues for safety-critical systems,
Design of failsafe microprocessor based systems such as choice of microprocessors and PLCs.
Design of test cases to appropriately check every condition and decision according to MCDC.

Course Description

Safety related systems’ vocabulary, safety integrity levels, hazard analysis, risk analysis, developing safety-critical systems, hardware and software fault tolerance, redundancy, system reliability, availability, mean time to repair (MTTR), mean time to failure (MTTF), mean time between failures (MTBF), Markov diagrams, hardware and microprocessor design faults, redundant hardware topologies and examples, test design to thoroughly check the working status and efficacy of every decision.