Ten Principles for Building Safe Embedded Software Systems

Obtaining safety certifications and pre-market approvals for safety-related systems is arduous, costly, and prone to failure. And yet such certifications and approvals are integral to the sale and market acceptance of software for a wide range of products.

Safety must be embedded in the practices, processes, and culture of every organization building safety-critical systems. If safety-critical products are to succeed, manufacturers must look beyond strictly technical challenges to embrace the following principles for building and certifying safety-critical software systems.

A product development culture focused on safety can’t guarantee that the software will meet its dependability requirements, nor is it certain the system will receive the necessary safety certifications or pre-market approvals.

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