Jean-Louis Boulanger 
Safety of Computer Architectures [PDF ebook] 

It is currently quite easy for students or designers/engineers to
find very general books on the various aspects of safety,
reliability and dependability of computer system architectures, and
partial treatments of the elements that comprise an effective
system architecture. It is not so easy to find a single source
reference for all these aspects of system design. However, the
purpose of this book is to present, in a single volume, a full
description of all the constraints (including legal contexts around
performance, reliability norms, etc.) and examples of architectures
from various fields of application, including: railways,
aeronautics, space, automobile and industrial automation.



The content of the book is drawn from the experience of numerous
people who are deeply immersed in the design and delivery (from
conception to test and validation), safety (analysis of safety:
FMEA, HA, etc.) and evaluation of critical systems. The involvement
of real world industrial applications is handled in such as a way
as to avoid problems of confidentiality, and thus allows for the
inclusion of new, useful information (photos, architecture
plans/schematics, real examples).

About the author

Jean-Louis Boulanger is an Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) for software in the railway industry. After 15 years working at the RATP (the authority that manages the subway in Paris) and 6 years as a researcher and teacher at the University of Technology of Compiegne in France, he is currently working as an expert for the French notified body CERTIFER in the field of certification of safety critical railway applications based on software (ERTMS, SCADA, automatic subway, etc.). His research interests include requirements, software verification and validation, traceability and RAMS with a special focus on safety.