‘The hardware we developed can only fail under very exceptional conditions, and when it does, it detects it and interrupts the process in a controlled manner before giving erroneous instructions. In an air-traffic control system, for example, this can be crucial to saving lives,’ explained HiPEAC member Jaume Abella, co-founder of Safe and Secure Technologies S.L. and co-director of the High Performance Embedded Systems (HPES) laboratory at BSC.
The company’s flagship technology, Safety Island, combines technologies developed over more than 10 years by researchers from BSC and UPC, within the context of EU-funded projects such as De-RISC, SELENE, ISOLDE, and FRACTAL. By focusing on chip design under the RISC-V open-source architecture standard, Safe and Secure Technologies support progress toward European technological sovereignty by eliminating dependencies and licenses from external multinationals, which is crucial for the critical sectors where the company operates.
