Automotive functional safety ISO26262

The System Architecture is a key input document for the technical safety concept (TSC)/Requirements (TSRs). Interestingly, it is also a work product that gets refined by the TSC, often leading to defining new System elements and Interfaces to satisfy Safety requirements. However, several people do not understand why a System Architecture is needed to create the TSC! Shouldn’t it not be that the System Architecture implements the TSRs? Also, what is the right level of information required in a Safety System Architecture?  This article is an attempt to bridge this knowledge gap and support the creation of more ‘Safety friendly!!” System Architectures 😃 What is the purpose of a System Architecture with respect to Safety? To understand the purpose for System Architecture with respect to Safety, we first need to know the steps involved in doing a technical safety concept. Please refer the flowchart below. Figure 1: Steps involved in creating a TSR. To begin the technical safety concept...

  One of the most common mistakes that we have seen developers make when working on a safety program is to think too much about the audit/assessment. We constantly get questioned about whether the things they are doing are sufficient for an audit or whether there would be Non-Compliances (NC) that could arise for doing things in a particular way. Unfortunately, this is a wrong thought process to have. The most important stakeholder for a safe product is the people who will be using the product or the people who could be affected by the safe product (Think pedestrians sharing the same road as the vehicle that is deemed safety relevant). As a developer the thought process should be about doing all the right things relating to safety. A non-exhaustive list of ‘Right Things’ are given below: Understanding what a safe product looks like and what it takes to develop it (Think technology, process, methods & tools) Transparently stating the limits and limitations of your product (Saf...

With the advent of enticing user experience, Electrification and ADAS features in the car, vehicle architecture is strongly headed towards Domain Controllers. In this article, let us discuss the following aspects: What is a Domain controller? Why are OEMs going towards Domain Controllers? What considerations should we have for functional safety in Domain Controllers? In case multiple suppliers are involved in the development of the Domain controller, what challenges exist and how to handle them? What is a Domain controller? Why are OEMs going towards Domain Controllers? Traditional vehicle architectures are de-centralized and distributed with one ECU typically implementing 1 feature/function. Every time a new function/feature is added, a new ECU is added. This kind of an architecture is extremely complex and heavy in terms of wiring (lots of cables, contacts, fusing, relays etc) and makes it very expensive to package all the ECUs into a car. Also, with the increased focus on automated ...

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If you are someone who has been working in the Automotive domain in various ECUs like power train ECUs, Infotainment, Instrument clusters, Body control etc and you are now getting started in the world of ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems), this article is for you! ADAS is the way to go for automotive innovation in this decade and THE Safety solution for lesser car accidents on the road. We have compiled here some extremely good articles and videos that can help you get started in ADAS. Read, Watch them. Have fun learning!! SAE Driving levels: https://autonomous-driving.org/2018/03/20/the-6-levels-of-autonomous-driving/ Overview of ADAS:  https://www.nhtsa.gov/equipment/driver-assistance-technologies#driving-control-assistance-30676 https://dewesoft.com/daq/what-is-adas Complete course on Self-driving cars: https://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/sdc-2021/ https://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/sdc-2020/ ADAS Features: ACC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=own_VaRZ9M8 Reverse Parking Collision Avoid...

 

 

 

We have posted some frequently asked questions that were asked during our Systems Webinar in the pdf attached here. Please click the link below to access it. Happy learning! Safety FAQs

In our previous blog, we introduced you to the first 5 Safety highlights of Adaptive Autosar. In this blog, let us discuss the remaining 6 highlights. 6. Safe Service oriented Communication HAD use cases demand dynamic upgrade of software applications throughout the entire vehicle lifecycle and to subsequently add new software functions, for instance via over-the-air software updates. Applications may be developed and tested independent of each other in distributed working groups and then integrated into the overall system at any time. Using Service-oriented communication between the software applications makes this possible. Service-Oriented Communication (SoC) is the main communication pattern for AA Applications. The concept of service-oriented communication is based on the idea that there are applications that provide a service on the communication system and other applications subscribe to this service.  The data will only be sent to the subscribers. Here is a picture from Aut...