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Silicon Interfaces enhances Functional Safety ISO 26262 - Compliant ASIL B SPI IP Solution for Automotives

• Silicon Valley, Calif, 24 Jun, 2020 9:00 am.

In line with the requirements of the Automotive industry the world over for safety assurance of the cars manufactured by them, in particularly to address the safety of the hardware component ASICs with the standards ISO 26262 certification based on Safety Critical integrity levels ASIL A, B, C and D to reduce possible hazards caused by the malfunctioning behavior of electrical and electronic (E/E) systems, Silicon Interfaces has released a newer version of the functional methodologies based verified SPI IP with enhanced Code and Fault Coverage analysis at ASIL B for certification audits coded as SPI-SM.

The development has been undertaken by Silicon Interfaces with qualified Test Tool for with Total Confidence Level (TCL) for Functional Safety Assurance for automotives at TCL1 or higher.

100% Code Coverage entailing Function or Call Statement, Branch Coverage and Modified Condition/Decision Coverage have been achieved.

For Fault Simulation, three standard methods based on Insert & Detect, Auto Inject and Standard Fault Format (SFF) methods have been deployed to check for divergence of Good Machine (GM) versus Faulty Machine (FM) with test intent for controllability, observability and testability analysis for both Stuck-at- 0/Stuck-at-1 and Transient Faults. The Drop Dead Faults are detected based on a matrix of possibilities with Inputs being Z 0 1 X and a look up Table. Analysis is undertaken for Prime and Collapsible Faults and the Fault detection is optimized for redundant faults.

Based on these techniques, Silicon Interfaces now has the industry's first SPI IP and I2C with capabilities of ASIL B and currently are working on PCIe with similar capabilities.

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Silicon Interfaces is a powerhouse of Intellectual Property developed by its team of Engineers. These are owned and copyrighted by Silicon Interfaces and sold as Portfolio of IPs. Silicon Interfaces released effective 2002 a plethora of 14 IPs and consequently 6+ Verification IP across a broad spectrum. The Program is targeted to the Wireless and Wired Networking, Data Communications and Inter-connect areas, with extensions to Embedded and Storage areas. The program offers a Portfolio of Design IPs and has a program for Roadmap IPs.

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