“…Other industries made respective attempts as well, dated back as far as 1994 (Hughes & Musgrave, 1994) for automotive industries and the use of FPGAs. More recently, papers appeared discussing certification of electronic equipment for a gas burner (Gonçalves et al, 2002), micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS (White & Rios, 2002), and a radio altimeter (Hairion et al, 2007). Lundteigen and Rausand (2006) made one of a few attempts to look at hardware assessment for safety-critical systems from the perspective different than that of DO-254, by applying the IEC 61508 and 61511 standards.…”