• IEC 61508-3:2010

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    Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems - Part 3: Software requirements (see Functional Safety and IEC 61508)

    Available format(s):  Hardcopy, PDF, PDF 3 Users, PDF 5 Users, PDF 9 Users

    Language(s):  English - French, Spanish, Castilian

    Published date:  04-30-2010

    Publisher:  International Electrotechnical Committee

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    FOREWORD
    INTRODUCTION
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Definitions and abbreviations
    4 Conformance to this standard
    5 Documentation
    6 Additional requirements for management of
      safety-related software
    7 Software safety lifecycle requirements
    8 Functional safety assessment
    Annex A (normative) - Guide to the selection of
            techniques and measures
    Annex B (informative) - Detailed tables
    Annex C (informative) - Properties for software
            systematic capability
    Annex D (normative) - Safety manual for compliant items
            - additional requirements for software elements
    Annex E (informative) - Relationships between
            IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3
    Annex F (informative) - Techniques for achieving
            non-interference between software elements
            on a single computer
    Annex G (informative) - Guidance for tailoring lifecycles
            associated with data driven systems
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    IEC 61508-3:2010 applies to any software forming part of a safety-related system or used to develop a safety-related system within the scope of IEC 61508-1 and IEC 61508-2; provides specific requirements applicable to support tools used to develop and configure a safety-related system within the scope of IEC 61508-1 and IEC 61508-2; requires that the software safety functions and software systematic capability are specified; establishes requirements for safety lifecycle phases and activities which shall be applied during the design and development of the safety-related software. These requirements include the application of measures and techniques, which are graded against the required systematic capability, for the avoidance of and control of faults and failures in the software; provides requirements for information relating to the software aspects of system safety validation to be passed to the organisation carrying out the E/E/PE system integration; provides requirements for the preparation of information and procedures concerning software needed by the user for the operation and maintenance of the E/E/PE safety-related system; provides requirements to be met by the organisation carrying out modifications to safety-related software; provides, in conjunction with IEC 61508-1 and IEC 61508-2, requirements for support tools such as development and design tools, language translators, testing and debugging tools, configuration management tools. This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 1998. This edition constitutes a technical revision. It has been subject to a thorough review and incorporates many comments received at the various revision stages. It has the status of a basic safety publication according to IEC Guide 104.


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    Committee TC 65/SC 65A
    Development Note Stability Date: 2017. (09/2017)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher International Electrotechnical Committee
    Status Current
    Supersedes