From our review, we have extracted several common themes. The focus of the work was on the specific aspects related to the justification of the software of the smart devices, and it does not discuss in detail aspects of the justification common to analogue devices, e.g., environmental qualification and type testing.
COTS Digital Devices in Safety Critical Industries
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2019:627
Eoin Butler, Gareth Fletcher, Samuel George, Sofia Guerra and Heidy Khlaaf