As the transportation industry continues to increase the amount of electronics and embedded software included in its products, systems and semiconductor makers must now consider the fault tolerance of their product offerings to customers in this rapidly growing market. Fortunately, the ISO 26262 standard defines the safety level of a design via specific safety goals, safety mechanisms, and fault metrics. However, even though there are sections of ISO 26262 dedicated to electronic systems in general, and semiconductors in specific, the mapping of the specification to the implementation of design and verification best practices is not specifically delineated.
Hence, in this tutorial you will learn:
- What are the basics of the ISO 26262 standard as it applies to requirements for electronic design & verification of safety critical products
- How to estimate the safety level of a design by defining safety goals, selecting “safety mechanisms”, and specifying fault metrics
- How today’s dynamic, static, and hardware-assisted verification flows can be employed to verify the safety-critical RTL designs, gate-level implementations, and embedded bare-metal software and firmware
- Advanced techniques to eliminate large numbers of irrelevant faults without compromising the completeness of the verification, or the safety of the finished product
