Accelerated Safety Assurance with Questa One Functional Safety Solution

Accelerated Safety Assurance with Questa One Functional Safety Solution

Explore how the Questa One Functional Safety Solution delivers accelerated safety assurance
DFT Verification: Tackling the evolving challenges

DFT Verification: Tackling the evolving challenges

Technological advancement continues as a blistering pace, and the demand for highly reliable systems is paramount across various industries. Safety...
Selective hardening in space applications

Selective hardening in space applications

Introduction The space sector continues to experience disruption as innovation drives the creation of new business models across government and...
Re-imagining requirements management for safety-critical projects

Re-imagining requirements management for safety-critical projects

Project teams face a host of challenges when developing semiconductors compliant to a safety critical market. Whether that’s ISO 26262...
Digital twin and the emerging challenges for silicon suppliers

Digital twin and the emerging challenges for silicon suppliers

Introduction The word digital twin is used frequently throughout the automotive ecosystem but putting a clean definition on the exact...
ISO 26262…the tale of Transient and Permanent Faults

ISO 26262…the tale of Transient and Permanent Faults

Introduction Are you designing to the ISO 26262 standard and trying to decide if your design is safe from random...
Clearing the Fog of ISO 26262 Tool Qualification

Clearing the Fog of ISO 26262 Tool Qualification

Introduction Developing products to the ISO 26262 standard requires many activities across multiple disciplines. One of those activities is ensuring...
Navigating the Intersection of Safety and Security

Navigating the Intersection of Safety and Security

Automotive IC safety and security continue to be hot topics across the industry, and one phrase you may often hear...
Guidelines to a successful ISO 26262 Lifecycle

Guidelines to a successful ISO 26262 Lifecycle

New business models continue to drive disrupting innovation into the automotive market. This includes everything from mobility as a service, to...
The configurability dilemma creating safe ICs

The configurability dilemma creating safe ICs

A traditional automobile today consists of multiple systems controlling everything from the interior atmosphere to drive train to more advanced...
The importance of effective Safety Analysis

The importance of effective Safety Analysis

In the recent Wilson research industry survey, semiconductor companies reporting have made it clear that functional safety activities consume a...
HDL Coding Standards for DO-254

HDL Coding Standards for DO-254

DO-254 is the state-of-the-art standard guiding the development of airborne hardware. The document defines a hardware design lifecycle with guidance...
Design Linting for ISO 26262

Design Linting for ISO 26262

ISO 26262 remains the state of the art standard guiding the development of electronic and electronic systems destined for the...
Deploying Formal in a DO-254 Program

Deploying Formal in a DO-254 Program

The primary focus of DO-254, referred to as ED-80 in Europe, is hardware reliability of airborne electronic hardware. DO-254 is...
Accellera FuSa WG: White paper released!

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...
Explanation of “Verification” in a DO-254 program

Explanation of “Verification” in a DO-254 program

Often times, I’m asked to define what verification activities are required for a DO-254 program. For those experienced in a...
Orchestrating an ISO26262 Fault Campaign

Orchestrating an ISO26262 Fault Campaign

ISO26262 remains the state-of-the-art standard governing the activities required to prove electronics and electronic systems are safe for deployment in...
Deploying HLS into a DO-254/ED-80 workflow

Deploying HLS into a DO-254/ED-80 workflow

To remain competitive in a challenging market, avionics companies continue to innovate across all aircraft-related systems, including flight management, communication,...
Siemens Verification Academy presents “Introduction to ISO 26262”

Siemens Verification Academy presents “Introduction to ISO 26262”

It’s likely no surprise that EV, ADAS, and AV applications are driving a new level of complexity in the planning,...
Leveraging ISO 26262 tool certification in IEC 61508

Leveraging ISO 26262 tool certification in IEC 61508

The majority of safety critical standards contain a section discussing the activities and analysis required to ensure tools deployed in...
AMC 20-152A: A practitioners perspective

AMC 20-152A: A practitioners perspective

A previous post discussed the high level impact of the new AMC 20-152A guidance on DO-254 programs. That post touched...
Leveraging fault simulation for manufacturing test

Leveraging fault simulation for manufacturing test

Manufacturing test for ASICs remains a critical part of the development lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of defect free silicon. This...
Key Functional Safety Insights from the 2020 Wilson Research Survey

Key Functional Safety Insights from the 2020 Wilson Research Survey

Every two years, Siemens casts a wide net to capture the latest trends and challenges in IC Design and Verification....
Leveraging BIST to reduce silicon cost in ISO26262 compliant semiconductors

Leveraging BIST to reduce silicon cost in ISO26262 compliant semiconductors

IC complexity for automotive applications continues to grow with experts estimating that automotive electronics will eventually exceed 50% of total...
How AMC 20-152A affects your DO-254 program?

How AMC 20-152A affects your DO-254 program?

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) recently released new guidance in the development of electronic hardware in airborne systems....
The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament

The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament

The title may have you wondering how the heck I’m going to tie together two very disparate topics.  Well here...
ISO 26262 Safety Analysis: We all need something to lean on

ISO 26262 Safety Analysis: We all need something to lean on

Introduction In my last post (Colliding Worlds of Safety Analysis), I highlighted the challenges facing safety teams and the opportunity...
Colliding Worlds in Safety Analysis

Colliding Worlds in Safety Analysis

Traditionally failure mode identification has been an expert driven exercise with a failure mode commonly written in common language, such...