Report

COTS Digital Devices in Safety Critical Industries

Updated 2024-08-14 Published 2019-12-03

In this project, we reviewed the use of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf components, COTS in safety and safety related applications in both the nuclear industry and other safety-critical industries.

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.

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About the report

Report number

2019:627

Author

Eoin Butler, Gareth Fletcher, Samuel George, Sofia Guerra and Heidy Khlaaf