Introduction to ISO 26262 Functional safety

Purpose

Provide an overview of ISO 26262, with a particular emphasis on the early phases, including concept and system development.

Goals

The participants shall get an overall understanding of:

• ISO 26262 structure and content

• terminology and definitions

• development of a ”safety case”

• definition of and compliance with safety goals

• analysis of safety related functions and incidents

• classification of automotive safety integrity levels (ASIL)

• functional and technical safety requirements

• process and work requirements

Day 1

09:00     Introduction

09:30     Safety management

• An overview of safety process management

• Overall safety management

• Safety management during item development

• Safety management after release for production

10:30     Concept development

• Overview of the concept phase

• Item definition

• Initiation of safety lifecycle

• Hazard analysis and risk assessment

• Definition of Safety Goals

• ASIL classification

• Functional safety concept

12:00     Lunch

13:00     Exercise

14:00     System development

• Initiation of product development at the system level

• Specification of the technical safety requirements

• System design

  
  

15:30     Wrap up

16:00     End

Day 2

09:00     System development continue

• Item integration and testing

• Safety validation

• Functional safety assessment

• Release for production

09:45     Exercise

10:45     Hardware development

• Process overview

• Initiation of product development at hardware level

• Specification of hardware safety requirements

• Hardware architectural metrics

• Evaluation of violation of safety goal due to random HW failures

• Hardware integration and testing

12:00     Lunch

13:00     Software development

• Process overview

• Initiation of product development at software level

• Specification of software safety requirements

• Software architectural design

• Software unit design and implementation

• Software unit testing

• Software integration and testing

• Verification of software safety requirements

14:00     Exercise

15:00     Supporting processes

• Distributed development

• Specification and management of safety requirements

• Configuration Management

• Change Management

• Verification

• Documentation

• Qualification of software tools

• Qualification of software components

• Qualification of hardware components

• Proven in use argument

15:30     Wrap-up

16:00     End