Comparison between IEC 60880 and IEC 61508 for certification purposes in the nuclear domain

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6351 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 55-67

  Lahtinen, Jussi ^a   Johansson, Mika ^b   Ranta, Jukka ^a   Harju, Hannu ^a   Nevalainen, Risto ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

IEC 60880; IEC 61508; nuclear domain; safety requirements; safety standards; safety critical software

Indexed keywords

IEC 60880; IEC 61508; NUCLEAR DOMAIN; SAFETY CRITICAL SOFTWARE; SAFETY REQUIREMENTS; SAFETY STANDARD;

NUCLEAR PROPULSION; NUCLEAR REACTORS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77956576085     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15651-9_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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