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Functional Safety

Functional Safety

The core mission of every safety-critical standard is to ensure the absence of unreasonable risk due to malfunctioning systems resulting in damage to persons or property. These standards guide programs through risk analysis and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) determination, hardware and software development procedures, and the supporting confirmation measures required to pass certification. Adhering to these standards adds a layer of complexity on to already complex development workflows, often resulting in unplanned time and resource overhead. It is critical that programs take a holistic approach when evaluating the solutions and tool chain deployed into a safety-critical project. Mentor design and verification solutions combined with Siemens Lifecycle Management tools constitute a portfolio of integrated products covering every step of your safety-critical workflow. Below please find the new DO-254 course, on demand seminars covering IEC 61508, panel discussions with users and many articles on key technologies to get you started.

Functional Safety Courses

Introduction to ISO 26262

Introduction to ISO 26262 Course | Subject Matter Expert - Jacob Wiltgen | Functional Safety Topic

The purpose of this course is to provide engineers and managers with a basic understanding of the key concepts of ISO 26262. This includes information on the scope of the standard, how the standard addresses the broader automotive supply chain, and key requirements defined at each phase of the product lifecycle.

Introduction to DO-254

Introduction to DO-254 Course | Subject Matter Expert - Byron Brinson | Functional Safety Topic

DO-254 has been around for over 15 years and has been applied almost exclusively in the commercial Aerospace industry. Because it has been focused in a subset of the electronic hardware market, many engineers and companies have little to no knowledge of DO-254.

However, in recent years, the airplane manufacturers have sought to create or update aircraft with newer technology to make them more functional, efficient and safer. As a consequence of this initiative there are two challenges have come to the surface...

Application SW Development Demo

With the growth of SW, studies indicate a high end vehicle today is reaching 100MM lines of code and a Level 5 AV will have 400MM lines of code. With the push to develop SW functions that increase revenue and differentiation with no increase in COGS, the SW domain is critical. According to this McKenzie article, the value of SW in the vehicle is going to grow 11% per year reaching 30% of the cost of the Vehicle by 2030. Mentor has products that can help OEMs address the increasing challenge of designing and validating the application SW deployed in the vehicle.

 

The video demonstrates how one of Mentor’s SW tools, Vista™ Virtual Prototyping" in conjunction with Siemens TASS and Amesim supports OEM’s Application SW development.Vista provides SW developers a hosted run time environment eg. virtualized ECU. The demo shows SW running on the virtualized ECU very early in the process. As such developers can validate that the SW actually delivers the intended physical functions via Amesim as defined at the feature level in TASS. Again the concept is to shift validation earlier in the process by providing SW developers access to “virtualized” ECU’s.

As more and more ECU’s are built on expensive SOC architectures to meet the consolidation trend, it will be more difficult for SW developers to have access to HW for testing.

Functional Safety Resources

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Featured Functional Safety Verification Horizons Articles

  • Effective Validation Method of Safety Mechanism Compliant with ISO 26262
  • SystemC FMU for Verification of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
  • ISO 26262 Fault Analysis – Worst Case is Really the Worst
  • Getting ISO 26262 Faults Straight
  • It’s Not My Fault! How to Run a Better Fault Campaign Using Formal
  • EDA Support for Functional Safety — How Static and Dynamic Failure Analysis Can Improve Productivity in the Assessment of Functional Safety
  • Will Safety Critical Design Practices Improve First Silicon Success?
  • How Static and Dynamic Failure Analysis Can Improve Productivity in the Assessment of Functional Safety
  • A Practical Methodology for Meeting ISO 26262 Random Faults Safety Goals in Automotive Semiconductor Products
  • Emulation Based Approach to ISO 26262 Compliant Processors Design
  • Simplified UVM for FPGA Reliability: UVM for “Sufficient Elemental Analysis” in DO-254 Flows
  • AMS Verification for High Reliability and Safety Critical Applications
  • Physical Verification of FPGAs in Accordance with an Aerospace DO-254 Methodology Flow
  • Complex Signal Processing Verification under DO-254 Constraints
  • Verifying Airborne Electronics Hardware: Automating the Capture of Assertion Verification Results for DO-254
  • DO-254 Testing of High Speed FPGA Interfaces

Featured Functional Safety Blog Posts

  • Leveraging fault simulation for manufacturing test
  • Key Functional Safety Insights from the 2020 Wilson Research Survey
  • Leveraging BIST to reduce silicon cost in ISO 26262 compliant semiconductors
  • How AMC 20-152A affects your DO-254 program?
  • The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament
  • Safety Analysis: We all need something to lean on
  • Colliding Worlds in Safety Analysis
  • Mastering Today’s Emerging Functional Safety Workflows
  • Navigating the Road to Functional Safety
  • Safety-Critical Design
  • Next Generation System Design and Verification for Transportation
  • IC/ASIC Design Trends - Part 7
  • Adding Functional Safety to Verification Academy
  • How to Prove that It’s Not Your Fault
  • Siemens Acquires Austemper Design Systems
  • The first ISO 26262 certified blog post!
  • 5 Things I Learned at the 2016 SAE World Congress

Featured Functional Safety White Papers

  • Push-Button FMEDAs for Automotive Safety - Automating a Tedious Task
  • Achieving Functional Safety for Autonomous Vehicle SoC Designs
  • Formal Techniques for Optimizing ISO 26262 Fault Analysis
  • Using An Automated Fuzzing Test Of A Virtual Prototype To Eliminate ECU Security Vulnerabilities
  • Straight talk on design tools and ISO 26262
  • ISO 26262 What's New and Still Missing
  • Functional Safety in AI-Controlled Vehicles
  • How Formal Reduces Fault Analysis for ISO 26262
  • Picking Your Faults: Advanced Techniques for Optimizing ISO 26262 Fault Analysis
  • Understanding Automotive Reliability and ISO 26262 for Safety-Critical Systems
  • Enhancing Automotive Electronics Reliability Checking
  • Migrating Consumer Electronics to the Automotive Market with Calibre PERC
  • When Spreadsheets Aren’t Enough
  • Physical Verification Flow for Hierarchical Analog IC Design Constraints
  • IC Test Solutions for the Automotive Market
  • Designing ISO 26262 Compliant PCBs
  • Understanding and Running DO-254 Coding Checks in HDL Designer
  • Understanding DO-254 and Solutions to Facilitate Compliance
  • Enabling Model-Based Design for DO-254 Compliance with MathWorks and Mentor Graphics Tools
  • Understanding electronic IP: common issues and how to find them

Featured Functional Safety On-Demand Technical Sessions

  • Mentor + Siemens Provides Solutions and Expertise to Achieve Rapid Safety Compliance
  • The Automotive Digital Twin – Virtual or Virtually Impossible
  • Accelerating ISO 26262 Functional Safety Verification
  • Demonstrating Functional Safety Compliance in Automotive IC Design
  • ISO 26262 & From Analysis to Fault Campaigns - Parts 1 & 2
  • How Formal Reduces Fault Analysis for ISO 26262 - Part 3
  • Requirement Tracing in the ISO 26262 World - Part 4
  • System Design Management for Automotive Functional Safety

Featured Functional Safety News & Press

  • Mitigating The Effects Of Radiation On Advanced Automotive ICs
  • Automating Failure Mode Analysis For Automotive Safety
  • Functional Safety Verification For AV SoC Designs Accelerated With Advanced Tools
  • New Security Risks Create Need For Stealthy Chips
  • Safety Analysis: The Key to a Single-Pass ISO 26262 Random Fault Workflow
  • Master the design and verification of next gen transport: Part One – overview
  • Digital twin points the way to system-level vehicle safety
  • Increased cooperation seen as vital for automotive safety verification
  • Reducing Your Fault Campaign Workload Through Effective Safety Analysis
  • Where Should Auto Sensor Data Be Processed?
  • Tackling Safety And Security
  • Challenges Of Logic BiST In Automotive ICs
  • How To Automate Functional Safety
  • How To Solve Automotive Electrical Design Challenges To Get To Market Faster
  • Who’s Responsible For Security Breaches?
  • Mentor Showcases Digital Twin Demo
  • Formal Flow for Automotive Safety
  • Siemens acquires Austemper Design Systems for breakthrough IC functional safety technology
  • New Shifts In Automotive Design
  • EDA Tackles Functional Safety
  • Functional Safety Standards in the Machine Learning Era
  • Simplifying The Road To ISO 26262 Compliance
  • Mentor extends functional safety assurance program to key design, verification and analog/mixed signal products
  • Mentor Adds Veloce Strato Emulation Platform Software to Mentor Safe ISO 26262 Qualification Program
  • Mentor Graphics Adds ReqTracer to Fast-Growing Mentor Safe ISO 26262 Qualification Program
  • How formal concentrates ISO 26262 fault analysis

Featured Functional Safety Success Stories

  • Rockwell Collins Brings a New Approach to Safety Critical Verification Using Questa VIP
  • Northrop Grumman Italia

Featured Functional Safety Initiatives & Standards

  • Mentor Safe
  • IEC 61508
  • ISO 26262
  • DO 264

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