Look what arrived in the post today. It cost me Euro 10 (around $10).

This weeks blog in my safety matters series covers the risks associated with making assumptions in safety bit.ly/4eUjjob

If you read about cyber security you will often come across Alice and Bob. But did you know there are a whole family of characters used to illustrate cyber security issues. For more see Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and…

One kilometer Ethernet at 10 mega bits/sec means that there will be even more interesting times ahead in terms of industrial functional safety, industrial cyber security and intrinsic safety. bit.ly/3NrVmZE

ADI quality certificates are available on our web site at analog.com/en/support/qua…. Its great to see an IEC 62443-4-1 (secure development process) cert is now up there

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My recent cyber security for robots presentation from the industrial robot safety conference held in Cincinnati earlier this month. bit.ly/3BTIF7A

I guess the intrinsic safety people don't love IEC 61508 as much as some of us do!

IP (ingress protection) is an important topic for any design and especially important for functional safety.

My safety matters blog this month is on the subject of creepage and clearance bit.ly/3Z2gzjA

What if you have a piece of software or hardware common to several safety functions.

A nice automotive blog from one of my ADI colleagues Kyle Fabris bit.ly/3UVGuXK

My blog this month is on things functional safety people might find useful from intrinsic safety. bit.ly/41ypuuC

The first blog of 2025 in my "Safety matters" series is a review of 2024 bit.ly/3CjKivL

My blog this month is on my highlights of the changes to the robot safety standard ISO 10218 bit.ly/41HKH3I

My safety matters blog this month is on the topic of redundant systems and how to describe them for functional safety applications. bit.ly/4iblUvo

My blog this month is on an alternative fault model from the IEC 60079-11 standard covering intrinsic safety (explosion proofing). ez.analog.com/ez-blogs/b/eng…

My safety matters blog this month considers diagnostics on your diagnostics for safety systems and specifically whether some diagnostics are self-testing. bit.ly/4lke1WR

This months blog in my safety matters series explores Hazardous event rates and why they are important as the real ultimate measure of the safety achieved bit.ly/3H80gvF