With the rapid growth in semiconductor content in today’s vehicles, IC designers need to improve their process of meeting functional safety requirements defined by the ISO 26262 standard. The ISO ...

The earlier you can perform functional safety analysis in the design cycle, the higher chance of identifying hotspots and meeting target ASIL. Imagine the air bag in your car not inflating during a ...

Products being used within their end-product application can suffer systematic or random failures. Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...

Functional safety standards are designed to help influence the reduction of potential risks of physical injury to people and property damage due to product failures within the end product application ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

Once relegated to test labs and engineering courses, electromagnetic forces have lately captured the imagination of the masses. Some of this is due to a kind of apocalyptic fascination—the idea of a ...

Hierarchical DFT methodology and automotive functional safety have been two recent areas of focus for Mentor, a Siemens business. Legacy design-for-test flows impose inefficiencies when transitioning ...

A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a “bottom-up” type of system analysis that is required for the standards certification of functional safety: IEC 61508 and all the standards deriving from ...