Functional Safety in the automotive industry, part 1: The rise of C

In the 1980s electronically controlled ignition and fuel injection systems were the first major embedded systems deployed for the automotive industry, as ignition and injection analogue units started to be progressively replaced by the more controllable digital alternatives facilitated by…

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Functional safety software: coding for the unexpected

When the Ariane 5 rocket exploded mid air in June 1996, only 36 seconds after its test launch, the software aboard the spaceship was working within official specifications. Still, it was a software error that had caused the disaster.

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