Dual chip based add-on Safety Module for Drives up to SIL 3 and PLe, Cat4

The NTSafeDriveMonitor safety solution by NewTec is a flexible add-on system for manufacturers of electric motor drives as well as plant and machine manufacturers. It is enabling existing drives to be used in environments where Functional Safety is required. It provides safety functions such as emergency stop, diagnostics, speed monitoring and the safestop functions according to the IEC61800-5-2/ IEC60204-1 standards.

NTSafeDriveMonitor is a highly configurable and programmable Safety solution. It supports operation with or without encoder. NTSafeDriveMonitor is based on a two FPGAs 1oo2 architecture. It is certifiable up to SIL3/SILCL3 according to IEC61508/IEC62061 and, PLe, Cat 4 according to ISO 13849. It has been proven in use in combination with a multitude of machine types.

Customer benefits

• Provides functional safety for legacy systems
• Covers all safety functions required by machine manufacturers
• Shortens development cycles and reduces development effort
• Improves consistency
• Reduces the time to market
• Worldwide certifiable

Typical applications

• Legacy AC motor drives
• Power inverters
• Production facilities
• Industrial robotics

ASIL A Ready Software Stack for Micronas Embedded Motor Controllers

With our NTMicroDrive and the new HVC5x microcontroller from TDK Micronas
you can optimize direct control for BLDC motors (up to 25 watts):

• Double flash memory
• Double motor current
• More compact housing
• Better availability
• Optimized motor control

NTMicroDrive is a close-to-production and highly flexible, customizable firmware with
sophisticated communication, monitoring and power management functions.
functions. The software stack with minimal resource consumption enables complex
motor control algorithms for Brushless DC Motors (BLDC), Six-Step Commutation with
or without sensor feedback. The motor controller supports the control of speed and
position.

Customer benefits

• Compliant with ISO 26262 ASIL A
• Ready-to-use software enables shorter time-to-market
• Compatible with various motor types
• Ample memory for customized adaptations
• MISRA compliant

Typical applications

Automotive

• Headlight height adjustment
• Electric windows
• Electric seat adjustment
• Electric mirror adjustment
• Control of air conditioning and valves (e.g. in the cooling circuit of traction batteries)

Industrial

• Safety interlock
• Material transport
• Tool handling
• Robotics

Construction

• Safety interlock
• Holding bracket
• Automatic alignment device
• Simple power tools

Building blocks for highly secure IoT applications

The core of the NTSecureCloudSolutions is a turnkey platform of certified secure hardware and software solutions with essential security functions such as e.g. certificate, policy and wireless device updating.

This includes IoT end devices (sensor nodes) and IoT gateways for the protected cloud connection, analysis and management tools as well as solutions for the functional safety when controlling devices, machines and systems. As needed, these devices and solutions are either available as standard products (out-of-the-box) or customer-specific developments.

Numerous services including consultation, training, operation and support complete the offer.

All components carry hardware-based security elements to provide both state of the art bidirectional authentication and cryptography capabilities. This allows not only for data acquisition but also for controlling and steering applications.

All components feature

• Protected key and certificate storage
• Individual provisioning for multiple project-specific CAs
• Hardware support for symmetric and asymmetric authentication and encryption functionality

Customer benefits

• Transform data into profi table intelligence
• Faster development of operational systems
• Devices and services rolled into one and from one place
• Security as a priority
• Support through the whole life-cycle

Safety reference design targeting ISO 26262 ASIL C

NewTec NTBatteryManagementSystem (NTBMS) is an e-mobility reference design and complete safety support package for Battery Management Systems. It is constructed with a two board approach: a functional safety System-onModule board and a Battery Management System (BMS) application board. The NTBMS is a generic safety reference design developed in cooperation with NXP.

Customer benefits

• Accelerate time to market
• Reduction in costs for development and certification
• Safety Development Plattform for BMS
• Reference Design targeting ISO 26262 ASIL C

Typical applications

• Automotive applications for starter and auxiliary Lithium-Ion batteries

° eCars
° eBike
° eScooter, etc.

• Smart Grid energy management
• Infrastructure / Decentralized Energy

° Battery charging stations
° Overcharge protection
° Distributed Power Management / Smart Grids

• Industrial applications
• Medical applications

° Emergency failover systems
° Portable medical devices

• Construction / Agriculture

° Portable power tools
° Hybrid construction vehicles

MicroController based evaluation board with additional Software Library for functional safety solutions up to SIL 3 and PLe, Cat4

The NTSafeFlex STM32 consists of an dual STM32-based evaluation board. With two small MicroControllers together with a Safety Software Library in safety related systems. A considerable reduction in costs for development and certification is achieved and the time to market is reduced noticeably.

The concept of the NTSafeFlex STM32 has already been utilized in several safety projects. It assists you to reduce risks, design costs, design time, process overhead. It improves your platform development, flexibility, modularity and safety integrity level (SIL).

Typical fields of application are e.g. safety control logic, motor supervision and general safety applications with low performance standards.

The NTSafeFlex STM32 development board implements proven architecture and design principles to fulfill all the requirements of the following safety standards:

• IEC 61508 standard up to SIL 3
• ISO 13849 standard up to Pl e Cat. 4

Customer benefits

• Time to market
• Proven in use
• Cost reduction
• Easy to adopt and customize

Typical applications

• Industrial
• Robotic
• Medical
• Energy Management
• etc.