SoC Design
The Numbers and Documents ISO 26262 Expects From a Chip Team
Sooner or later, an automotive customer sends a chip team a list of requests: an FMEDA, a safety manual, a dependent failure analysis, and a statement of which ASIL the part can support. ISO 26262 sits behind that list, and it was written for road vehicle systems, not for silicon. A semiconductor team has to work out what the standard means for a block of RTL that has no vehicle attached to it yet. This post goes through what Part 5 and Part 1…