MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
July 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today
announced that Samsung Foundry collaborated with Synopsys on its VC
Functional Safety Manager solution. VC Functional Safety Manager
(VC FSM) provides the necessary automation for the functional
safety Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Failure Modes
Effects Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) for automotive SoCs.
Samsung collaborated with Synopsys to advance VC FSM as part of
Synopsys unified functional safety solution because of its
differentiated features covering safety analysis, verification and
implementation, enabling designers to prove at the planning and
implementation phases that their chip safety architecture can
achieve the targeted Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASILs).
Using VC FSM, customers can perform early analysis of the immediate
effect of design changes on the ISO 26262 metrics, automate fault
injection campaign for functional safety verification and
synchronize the tracking and documentation of functional safety
analysis with its requirement management, resulting in faster time
to ISO 26262 compliance.
"To perform the detailed FMEA/FMEDA needed for ISO 26262
certification of automotive SoCs, our reference flow needs to
integrate technology that enables early analysis, optimize flow
automation and integrate with our requirement management tool,"
said Sangyun Kim, vice president of
Foundry Design Technology Team at Samsung Electronics. "Through our
deep collaboration on functional safety with Synopsys, VC
Functional Safety Manager provides the necessary innovation and
automation to accelerate designers' time to ISO 26262
compliance."
New innovations developed in collaboration with Samsung Foundry
for VC FSM include productivity-oriented features that result in
faster time-to-market and improved system level cost for Samsung,
such as:
- Support for top-down flow and what-if analysis enabling early
safety architecture exploration
- Quick synthesis for RTL design data extraction, enabling
failure rate estimates before a synthesized gate-level netlist is
ready
- Support for application lifecycle management tools for easier
integration in customer flows
- Handling failure modes and fault injection in analog parts of
the SoC
"The increasing complexity of automotive SoCs for powertrain,
autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems is
creating more demand for integrated and highly productive solutions
to efficiently perform functional safety analysis," said
Vikas Gautam, vice president of
engineering in the Synopsys Verification Group. "Through our
continuous innovation efforts and collaboration with Samsung,
Synopsys is delivering the most advanced solution for automotive
customers to accelerate its ISO 26262 functional safety
deliverables."
Read more about VC Functional Safety Manager.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™
partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products
and software applications we rely on every day. As an S&P 500
company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in
electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers
the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing
tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer
creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing
more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed
to deliver innovative products. Learn more
at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial
Contacts:
Simone Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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