The growth in supercomputer-like performance that is necessary for autonomous vehicles to navigate around cities is causing explosive adoption of highly parallel chip architectures using cache coherency for machine learning, computer vision and sensor fusion. This uptick increases the complexity of functional safety mechanisms and diagnostic coverage analyses required to achieve the ISO 26262 ASIL D level. ISO 26262, otherwise known as "Road vehicles – Functional Safety," is an international standard for functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems in production automobiles defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2011. Functional safety features form an integral part of each automotive product development phase, ranging from the specification, to design, implementation, integration, verification, validation and production release.
Arteris and ResilTech S.R.L., the leaders in resilient computing and functional safety for automotive systems, have now teamed up to help semiconductor design teams efficiently validate ISO26262 functional safety levels for automotive systems-on-chip.
Full commercial deployment, automated driving electronics will require ASIL D functional safety level certification. Because these SoC architectures are implemented in the physical world through the configuration of inter-processor communications, the on-chip SoC interconnect bears the burden of simultaneously satisfying these conflicting requirements.
This partnership will assist SoC designers by offering:
• A quantitative (FMEDA) and qualitative (FMEA) functional safety assessment of the ArterisIP Ncore Cache Coherent Interconnect and the Ncore Resilience Package IP
• A complete set of ISO 26262 deliverables for multiple SoC reference designs, which can then be used as a foundation for design teams to prepare ISO 26262 work products for their own custom SoC designs
• Tools and methods to automate this work, including directing fault injection campaigns using industry-leading EDA tools
• Consulting services by experienced functional safety and interconnect IP experts to help ArterisIP and ResilTech customers more quickly perform their own ISO 26262 activities
One of the partnership’s main objectives is to develop highly productive functional safety ecosystems for mutual customers.
