Volume 2020 Issue 4 Newsletter | Voler Systems
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Voler Product Feature
Challenging designs completed on-time and on-budget
Heart pump electronics and software
Client Challenge
- Deliver ultra-reliable firmware and hardware modifications needed for FDA submission
VOLER SOLUTION
- Wrote all software; revised hardware
- Wrote verification protocol
- Executed verification
- Created doc package
- In 510(k) FDA had no questions on submission
- Class III device
Voler wrote all the firmware and software for a heart pump. It includes screens like this, showing how to set up the system. It also includes about 100 error messages.
There are three levels of control for safety. The user interface software in the picture can fail, and the control firmware will continue to operate the pump. If the firmware were to fail, a CPLD will keep the pump running at the last set speed.
Voler did the verification testing of the software. When this class III device was submitted to the FDA they had no questions about the software. This level of success is very unusual, although we repeated it when a second version went through verification and resubmission. Again the FDA had no questions about the software.
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Upcoming Events
May 28, 2020, 1:30 PM Pacific
Meet-up: IoT Needs Secure Messaging
Security & Privacy should be primary concerns in the design of how data flows within IoT. However, current IoT communication protocols are lacking. This talk explores how secure messaging, decoupled from the transport layer, can lead to significant wins in security, privacy & even interoperability.
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Thursday, June 11, 2020, 10 AM Pacific
Webinar: Security-By-Design – Getting Started and Getting It Right
Voler Systems President and founder, Walt Maclay, will be hosting a webinar that will explore security-by-design and how to get it right from the get-go on Thursday, May 14, 2020, 10 AM Pacific. Join this webinar and discover how the ideal security design can be realized for your devices and applications.
Learn more by clicking here.