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Accellera FuSa WG: White paper released!

The Accellera Functional Safety Working Group was formed to address critical industry challenges suppliers, systems integrators and manufacturers face delivering products to safety-critical markets such as automotive, industrial, avionics, and more. The challenges faced are spread across the entire product lifecycle, including modeling, design, verification, manufacturing, and the delivery into an often complex supply chain. To tackle such an ambitious project, representation is required from key stakeholders throughout the safety-critical ecosystem. This includes IP/IC suppliers, systems integrators, OEMs, and the companies providing tools to facilitate the creation of these complex safety critical systems.

In the white paper, the group describes the industry challenges faced, the mission statement of the group, and an introduction to the core elements of the standard to be released.

The challenges are bucketed into a handful of categories including:

  • Exchange of the same FS data across different automation tools
  • Connection between FS data and design information
  • Sharing of FS data across different operations/work products in the same layer
  • Exchange of FS data between suppliers and integrators
  • Traceability of information across the distributed development environment

If you are interested in learning more, please download the white paper here.

And if you and your company are interested in participating the group, please don’t hesitate to reach out. More information on the group and how to join can be found at the main Accellera Functional Safety Homepage.

Jacob Wiltgen
Director, IC Verification Solutions

Jake Wiltgen is a Solutions Director at Siemens, responsible for divisional strategy in Automotive, Functional Safety, 3DIC, Rad-Hard, and High Performance Compute markets across the digital verification technologies portfolio. Moreover, Jake serves as the co-chair of the Front-End Design Track for the Digital Analog Design Conference (DAC) and is a primary representative for Siemens EDA in numerous automotive and functional safety standardization initiatives within Accellera and IEEE. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Prior to Siemens, Jake held various design, verification, and leadership roles performing IC and SOC development at Xilinx, Paneve, Micron, and Broadcom.

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/verificationhorizons/2021/06/03/accellera-functional-safety-working-group-white-paper-released/