FPGA adoption is increasing in industrial and automotive applications because of its high performance, low power processing, and flexibility to meet rapidly evolving requirements. While designing a safe product, a user needs to consider safety across all aspects of product development. Design challenges include adopting quality management standards, establishing a “safe” design methodology, and implementing safety concepts.

This white paper aims to share methods to assist FPGA designers on performing Safety Analysis for FPGA-based automotive designs and offers a guide to successful ISO26262 Safety certification.

Read this whitepaper to gain insights on

• Safety Analysis procedures followed to implement a functionally safe, FPGA-based automotive design
• Challenges FPGA designers must overcome to use FPGAs in safety-critical applications
• Approaches to develop qualitative and quantitative Safety Analysis reports for an FPGA design
• Processes involved in Safety project other than safety management processes