Arm and Cadence Speed Up Safety Process with Joint FMEDA-Driven Safety Methodology for Automotive IPs and SoCs

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.