Functional Safety Engineering

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Functional Safety Engineering

Provide hands-on Functional Safety engineering support for the development of safety-critical semiconductor IPs, ICs, and SoCs over the complete development safety lifecycle, from safety concept definition through implementation, analysis, and verification.

Activities & Deliverables:

SEooC Definition for Semiconductor / IP

  • Definition of SEooC assumptions and safety boundaries
    • Definition of IP/IC Safety Goal (Top Level Safety Requirement)
    • ASIL , FHTI, Safe State
  • Definition of assumptions of use and integration constraints

Safety Requirements Engineering

  • Definition of Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs)
  • Definition of Hardware Safety Requirements (HSRs)
  • Definition of Software Safety Requirements (SSRs)
  • Definition of Safety Mechanism Requirements
  • Safety requirement decomposition and allocation
  • Requirements traceability and consistency management
  • Definition of safety-related interfaces and dependencies

Safety Architecture

  • Definition of the Technical Safety Concept (TSC)
  • Support for safety architecture development
  • Safety partitioning and decomposition
  • Definition and support of Safety Island architectures
  • Freedom from Interference (FFI) analysis
  • Definition of safety-related interfaces
  • Definition and allocation of safety mechanisms
  • Analysis of ASIL decomposition and independence

Safety Analysis

  • FMEA / DFMEA
  • FMEDA
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
  • Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA)
  • Common Cause Analysis (CCA)
  • Dependent Failure and interaction analysis
  • FIT-rate and failure-rate calculations
  • Calculation and evaluation of SPFM, LFM, and PMHF
  • Diagnostic Coverage (DC) analysis
  • Safety mechanism effectiveness analysis
  • Analysis of single-point, residual, and latent faults

Safety Verification & Validation

  • Safety mechanism verification planning
  • Fault injection strategy and planning
  • Safety verification planning
  • Verification of safety requirements
  • Verification of safety mechanisms
  • Review and evaluation of verification results
  • Generation and consolidation of objective safety evidence
  • Support for safety case and assessment evidence

Contact

Tel.: +49 89 787 475-271
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