FuSa Flow For Achieving An ASIL-C Safety Architecture
The article discusses the importance of ISO 26262 in ensuring the functional safety of electrical and electronic systems in road vehicles, emphasizing specific random hardware failure rate targets for each automotive safety integrity level (ASIL). Siemens EDA offers tools to mitigate both systematic and random faults, focusing on achieving ISO 26262 ASIL compliance for developers of automotive ICs/SoCs. The FuSa tools provided by Siemens include safety analysis and validation tools like Questa One VIQ Compliance Advisor and Questa One Safety Analyzer, aiding in early-stage ASIL metrics and fault mitigation. Challenges posed by ISO 26262 include improved product quality but increased costs and technical complexities in developing ICs/SoCs for the automotive market. Achieving ASIL-C requires meeting specific fault metrics and ensuring traceability in the development process.