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User Guide

exSILentia

V3.1

- Standard - Analysis - Operations - Ultimate -

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Table of Contents
exSILentia User Guide v30 r0
exSILentia 3.0 Options
Third Party Tool Interfaces
Installation

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Minimum System Requirements

Licensing
exSILentia Help Options
exSILentia Projects
SIF General Information
Action Items
References
Team members
Getting started
Updates
exSILentia Tool Updates
Equipment Reliability Data Updates
exSILentia Reports
SIF List
SILver Summary Report
IEC 61511 Compliance Report
SRS-C&E
Proof Test Report
Lifecycle Cost Report
IEC 61511 Compliance Requirements and Arguments
Critical Device List
PHAX
PHA Import
Working with PHAX
Working with PHA-Pro
Working with PHAWorks
Working with Custom CSV Files
Using the exSILentia PHA Import
SIF Identification
SIL Selection
Risk Graph
Hazard Matrix
Frequency Based targets
Independent Protection Layers
SIF SRS
Process SRS
SIL Verification
SILver Structure
General SIL Verification Selections
Sensor Selections
Sensor Configuration Options
Logic Solver Selections
Final Element Selections
Final Element Configuration Options
SILver Results
Beta Estimator
Proof Testing
Application Level Diagnostic / Testing
PIU Justification
Group Reuse
User Defined devices

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Unit Mean Time To Fail Spurious (MTTFS)

Design SRS
Lifecycle Cost Estimator
Setting Life Cycle Cost parameters
Specifying Lifecycle cost for a Safety Instrumented Function
SILAlarm
SILStat
Disclaimer and Assumptions
Disclaimer
Assumptions PHA
Assumptions SILect
Assumptions SRS
Assumptions SILver
Terms and Abbreviations
Software License Agreement

exSILentia Version 3 Options

exSILentia
Standard
Analysis
Operation
Ultimate

Version 3 is available in 4 different options:

Base functionality for all users requiring
functional safety standard compliance
Additional functionality for the process hazards
analysis phases of the safety lifecycle
Additional functionality for the operation
phases of the safety lifecycle
Complete exSILentia safety lifecycle tool
functionality

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Third Party Tool Interfaces

The exSILentia Team is working to provide seamless integrations between exSILentia and other tools
used in the Safety Lifecycle. An example of an interface between the exSILentia tool and a third party
tool is an automatic interpretation of the exSILentia export file to populate a logic solver programming
tool with the Safety Instrumented Functions configurations as specified in the SILver tool. This
drastically reduces the amount of engineering time required and reduces the likelihood of errors in the
interpretation of the SILver output and conversion to the logic solver application program.
Currently the following third party interfaces are available:

Import from PHA-Pro

Import from PHAWorks

For information on any of the third party interfaces listed, please contact the exSILentia Team
(exSILentia@exida.com).

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