 Hello from Embedded World. Functional safety is a key aspect while designing systems for factory automation. For example, if you open the cover of a machine, or if you open a gate to enter an area with an operating robot, you must guarantee the system will always stop. The needs for functional safety will keep on increasing with the evolution of smart industry and how humans are interacting with machinery. You may not actually have any gate for protection anymore. Think about the concepts of robots where robots and humans are working in the same space and even working together. Safety mechanisms implemented in software are automatically triggered when a risk of harming users or damaging machines or materials is detected. If we look at things from high level, ST provides a free-of-charge and certified functional safety package for all STM32 devices. This package, certified by two, is composed of a compiler independent self-test library as well as documents such as FMEA, FMEDIA, and safety manuals. It aims to reduce development efforts, time and cost to meet functional safety standards that have been derived from the IEC 61508. I would just like to point out that STM32 can be used as a solution for both safety critical and standard applications. And customers can easily navigate around the STM32 portfolio to select the device that is right for them. We know that developing a STM32-based product with a safety function requires deep knowledge of the IEC 61508 standard and the associated development process. The challenge here is the certification phase. And for that, the safety requirements must be considered at the very first stage of the project. Several of our authorized partners are experts in functional safety. They have expanded their know-how to the STM32 and its functional safety package. They come with additional software, hardware, reference designs, tools, trainings, and other services. Their solutions help designers at any stage of their project from the mapping of the safety requirements to the design and validation of hardware and software, certification phase included. Here are still three level reference designs from Mesco and New Tech based on two STM32 devices in one out of two architecture. Other partners are software providers, including Safety Air Toss as well as other software add-ons for functional safety. IRR and Armkile provide a safety certified version of their compiler. For more information, please visit ST.com slash functional safety to check the complete list of partners et si vous voulez obtenir accès à ceci, s'il vous plaît, contactez le STM32 pour consulter les spécifiques.