Designed for on-board applications
Can be used for trackside train control and train signal operation.

Artisan Embedded Technology has introduced the ControlSafe™ Carborne Platform, a COTS computing system for railway safety applications designed with SIL4 certification, as its latest portfolio product.

The new platform is designed for on-board applications such as Automatic Train Protection (ATP), Automatic Train Operation (ATO), and Positive Train Control (PTC), and can also be utilized for trackside train control and train signaling operations.

Artisan's ControlSafe Carbon platform enables the provision of cost-effective and highly integrated solutions for railway system integration service providers and railway application operators. The first two platforms unveiled among the portfolio products have already obtained SIL4 certification, and the ControlSafe Carborne Platform is expected to complete the certification process around the third quarter of 2017.



The ControlSafe Carbon Platform is built in a compact 4U chassis equipped with front access I/O and a DC power supply, and can accommodate up to 12 I/O modules and various I/O types.

The data locking stage architecture applied across all Artisan ControlSafe Platforms ensures a seamless technology upgrade process, and the ControlSafe™ Carborne Platform is designed to meet the functional safety, reliability, and availability requirements of railways, optimizing it for the implementation of a safe application environment. By using these COTS products, the time, cost, and risk associated with system development and certification procedures can be significantly reduced.

Qianqian Shao, Marketing Manager at Artesyn, stated, "A client that adopted the ControlSafe Platform was able to reduce costs and shorten development time. Using a shared safety architecture makes the transfer of applications between systems and the construction of a common platform much easier. It is modular and easily scalable, and is designed to seamlessly accommodate new processor architectures required throughout the product lifecycle, along with I/O interfaces."