The SIC10E is a safety hardware platform with 1oo2 architecture to achieve a SIL3 according to IEC61508 and performance level e and category 4 according to ISO13489. By implementing the first channel with a Cortex A7, the platform has a local EtherCAT Slave and Profinet Slave interface. The SIC10E is a plug-in module, so that it can be integrated into customer-specific hardware. A total of 16 safe digital inputs and 8 safe digital outputs can be connected. The safe IOs are GPIOs of the two microcontrollers, so that custom-specific physical input and output can be used. In addition, the platform has one SSI encoder input per microcontroller channel.
For development purposes, an IO board with 8 safe digital inputs and 4 safe digital outputs is also available. The safe digital inputs are type 3 inputs as defined in IEC61131-2. The safe digital outputs are short-circuit protected and fulfill the requirements of IEC61131-2. For customer specific applications the usRTS is integrated on the SIC10E.