Automotive ISO26262: Road Vehicles Functional Safety

Course topics:

• Functional Safety Overview / General Introduction
  • Why is Functional Safety needed in Automotive Industry?
• FS Management & Safety Life Cycle Requirements (ISO 26262 - Part 2)
  • Activities for Functional Safety Management
  • Safety Plan
  • Safety Life Cycle Management
• Risk Based Safety Requirements Engineering (ISO 26262 - Part 3)
• Item Definition
• Hazard Analysis & Risk Assessment
  • Safety Goal Definition with ASIL with examples and exercises
• Functional Safety Concept
  
  • Warning and degradation concept
  • System Development
• Technical Safety Concept (ISO 26262 - Part 4)
  • Safety Architecture and Architectural Elements
  • Safety Functions and Safety Integrity Function
  • Exemplification: typical solutions detailed in a technical safety concept,
    requirements allocation to system and ASIL Decomposition example
  • Verification: System Safety FMEA and FTA
• Hardware-Software-Interface Specification: The ISO solution for an old problem
• Item integration and testing
• Validation
• Release for Production
• Optional:
  • Dependant failure analysis (DFA)
• ISO 26262 lifecycle approach: Product Lifecycle and process requirements
• Where is hardware development in the process model?
  • What are inputs to hardware development?
• Hardware Development (ISO 26262 - Part 5)
  • HW Safety Requirements
  • HW Architecture and Design with examples
  • HW Architecture Evaluation
    • Introduction into Fault Tree Analysis with exercise
    • Requirements for the Evaluation: Metrics for Safety Goal Violation
    • Fault models, failure rates and target values
    • Presentation of the probabilistic approach
    • qualitative approach with a semi probabilistic argumentation
• How to evaluate the metric for "Safety Goal Violation"
  • exemplification: calculation via FTA based on the results of the quantitative FMEDA
• How to evaluate the metrics SPFM and LFM
  • exemplification: exida FMEDA approach for metric calculation
• HSI - Cooperation with the software team
  • Hardware-Software-Interface Specification HSI
• Qualification of HW components (ISO26262 - Part 8 § 13)
• Optional:
  • ASICs in the scope of the ISO 26262
  • Communication channels and their evaluation
  • Dependant failure analysis (DFA)
• Software Development Process (ISO 26262 - Part 6)
  • Content of the Software Safety Process, how to do initiation and tailoring
• Software Safety Requirements Specification:
  • Sources of Software Safety Requirements and interfaces to System Level
  • Interpretation of properties and attributes required by ISO26262
  • Practical methods how to derive and detail requirements for the software
  • Methods for the verification of Software Safety Requirements
• Software Architecture:
  • How to develop a Software Architecture acc. to ISO26262
  • Semi-formal architecture development - interpretation of ISO26262
  • Measures to be considered
  • ASIL Decomposition at the software level
  • How to implement Freedom from Interference
  • Safety requirements allocation to software architectural components
  • Methods for the verification of the Software Architecture
• Software Unit Design
  • Content of a semi-formal Software Unit Design Specification
  • Interpretation of design requirements recommended by ISO26262
  • How to deal with OO programming languages (C++)?
  • Methods for the verification of the software unit design
• Software Safety Verification
  • Software Analysis Techniques
    • Software Criticality Analysis
    • Software Dependent Failure Analysis
  • Software Testing Techniques (Unit and Integration Testing)
    • Requirements based (Equivalence Classes, Boundary Values, etc.)
    • Structure based (Statement Coverage, MCDC, Call Coverage, etc.)
• Tool classification and qualification 
• Software qualification: How to deal with existing components?