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Key takeaway: A software component might be free to download, but it's rarely free to own. In safety-critical systems, the long-term effort spent maintaining, securing, verifying, and documenting software can far outweigh any upfront licensing cost. Most embedded developers have been at this crossroad: you’re starting a new build and need a Real Time Operating System (RTOS), a network stack, or a crypto library...
When people think about functional safety certification, they often focus on the engineering challenge. They think about requirements, software development, testing, and system design. Those things are important, but in many certification projects they're not what causes the delay...
WITTENSTEIN high integrity systems (WHIS) has been recognised by Semiconductor Review Magazine as the exclusive recipient of the Top Safety-Critical Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) Provider 2026 award. The company was also named among the Top Semiconductor Technology Solutions, further reflecting WHIS' position within the embedded systems industry...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With more than a decade of experience attending Embedded World, Managing Director Andrew Longhurst has seen the event, and the industry, transform first-hand. Here, he reflects on what’s changed, what newcomers should know, and what he expects from next year’s show...
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...