Robert Schweiger, Cadence Group Director Automotive Solutions, talks about the benefits of Cadence’s functional safety partnership with Arm leveraging the Cadence Safety Solution. Arm develops a wide range of automotive IPs that need to be safety-certified according to the ISO 26262 standard. Therefore, automating the safety process by capturing the safety intent as part of the FMEDA and generating safety documentation is a key priority. Cadence worked closely with Arm to define a new format called Unified Safety Format (USF) which provides a formal way to describe the safety intent, failure modes, and associated safety mechanisms of the chip. As a result of this collaboration, Arm was able to significantly speed up their safety process thanks to the Cadence Midas Safety Platform and USF, enabling an FMEDA-driven and highly automated safety methodology.