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<\/a>Mentor is pleased to join the Arm Functional Safety Partner<\/strong><\/a> program to bring our knowledge and expertise to help mutual customers get to market faster while meeting their functional safety requirements.<\/p>\nThe world\u2019s most pressing and challenging designs are those that embed more intelligence and sophistication in them than we have ever seen in the past.\u00a0 Today\u2019s systems strive to go beyond simply augmenting human tasks; they are being built to support replacement of direct human interaction.\u00a0 Functional safety is no longer a feature that can be added in or tested later; it has become a key element of design success up front.<\/p>\n
Early Days of Safety-Critical Design<\/h3>\n
We know safety-critical design is not something new.\u00a0 In times past, sneak circuit analysis was used to uncover hidden current paths to prevent undesired actions.\u00a0 The joke is you only turned on the car lights, but the windshield wipers flapped too!\u00a0 While humorous, much graver consequences might come if an airplane deployed its landing gear only to find the cargo door opens as well.\u00a0 These large systems \u2013 that could put human life at risk if they fail \u2013 have used system analysis techniques to help prevent inadvertent modes of operation for some time.<\/p>\n
In today\u2019s world of design, complex systems that have functional safety concerns are not the domain of aviation only.\u00a0 Other forms of transportation are quickly gaining features to support autonomous operation.\u00a0 Medical devices and industrial applications also share human life-critical aspects that have safety-critical challenges.\u00a0 This has led to the establishment of safety-critical practices like DO-254, ISO 26262, IEC 60601, and others.<\/p>\n
Arm Functional Safety Partner<\/h3>\n
As I mentioned, Mentor is please to join the Arm Functional Safety Partnership program.\u00a0 The explosive growth in safety-critical designs is facilitated in no small part by the adoption of ever more complex Arm products that power edge solutions, embody connect everything methods, support safe and secure compute and usher in adoption of artificial intelligence through machine learning.\u00a0 A cornerstone to Arm\u2019s success has been the open and collaborative stance it takes to embrace ecosystems to support their initiatives to drive your time-to-market imperatives.<\/p>\n
Mentor\u2019s commitment<\/strong><\/a> to Arm\u2019s Functional Safety Partnership Program is in keeping with our strong pledge to ensure Arm-powered products thrive in your safety-critical applications.<\/p>\n Mentor, as part of the Siemens Digital Software Industries<\/strong><\/a>, brings a broad portfolio of products to serve suppliers, systems integrators and OEMs within safety-critical markets. Our holistic view of functional safety starts at product conception and goes through product development to product decommissioning.\u00a0 We created Mentor Safe<\/strong><\/a> to deliver a portfolio of products that are suitable for use in safety-critical markets and provide seamless integration and automation across technology deployed in the many phases of a product development lifecycle.\u00a0 I invite you to take a closer look at what we do and the Arm Functional Safety Partner program.<\/p>\nFunctional Safety Impact on Design<\/h3>\n