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Why Traceability Matters in Safety-Critical Software Certification

21st September 2026

Traceability is a topic that is hugely important to every safety standard, but what is it and how is it done in practice? What is traceability? Traceability is the ability to demonstrate that you have delivered exactly what you intended to deliver, and nothing more, with evidence that is easily understandable...

Why Safety Manuals Matter: Getting the Most from Safety-Certified Software

15th September 2026

Key takeaways: Safety Manuals play a critical role in functional safety compliance by explaining how a safety-certified component must be integrated and used. This article explains: What a Safety Manual is and why it matters. Why Assumptions of Use (AoUs) are critical for certification...

What to Know Before Choosing a Safety RTOS

15th June 2026

Choosing a safety RTOS can directly impact your certification timeline, development effort, and overall project risk. In this video, we outline the key considerations engineers should understand before committing to a solution. [embed]https://www...

How to Handle Multiple Events with One Task in SAFERTOS®

21st May 2026

Tired of creating multiple tasks just to handle multiple events? In real-time systems, waiting on more than one condition, such as queue space and a released mutex, can quickly lead to wasted CPU cycles and bloated designs. With the SAFERTOS® API, this is not only possible but streamlined through Event Multiplexing...

Edge AI in Safety Critical Systems: Why 2026 is the Turning Point

22nd April 2026

Key Takeaways 2026 marks the first year where safety‑critical Edge AI becomes practical at scale. For the first time, real‑time AI workloads, functional safety requirements, and modern heterogeneous SoCs align on a single device. This is the year when: Edge AI becomes foundational in automotive, industrial, and robotics applications, driven by real‑time perception, sensor fusion, and context‑aware intelligence...

ThunderX Adopts SAFERTOS® to Enhance Functional Safety in Next-Generation AI Domain Controller Platforms to Accelerate Safe, Scalable Cockpit-ADAS Fusion on Qualcomm Automotive SoCs

1st April 2026

ThunderX, a global provider of intelligent driving domain controller platforms and high-performance central computing (HPC) solutions, announced the strategic adoption of SAFERTOS® from WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) across its next-generation domain controller platforms powered by Qualcomm® SA8775P and SA8650P...

WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems and Tata Technologies Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Software-Defined Vehicle Development

2nd March 2026

WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS), a global leader in safety-critical embedded software, today announced a strategic partnership with Tata Technologies, a leading global engineering and product development digital services company. This collaboration aims to accelerate innovation in Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) by integrating WHIS’s flagship product, SAFERTOS®, into Tata Technologies’ advanced automotive software stack...