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Cadence Automotive Solution for Safety Verification Used by ROHM to Achieve ISO 26262 ASIL D Certification

Cadence Design Systems’ Cadence Automotive Solution has been used by ROHM CO, Ltd. for safety verification, a critical component of its ISO 26262-compliant tool chain for automotive LSIs.

The ROHM flow, which has achieved ASIL D certification from TÜV Rheinland, a global leader in independent inspection services, utilises Cadence fault injection simulation technology, which can reduce the effort required to complete the safety verification process by up to 50% for automotive applications.

ROHM will be presenting additional details on this use-case at CDNLive Japan 2018 being held at the Yokohama Bay Tokyu Hotel on July 20, 2018.



The flow from ROHM utilised Cadence Incisive functional safety technology to achieve ASIL D certification, the highest level for automotive functional safety.

Software validation of the Safety Verification component of the Cadence Automotive Solution, including fault injections, was critical in meeting TÜV Rheinland’s certification requirements.

Cadence fault simulation technology effectively addresses many complexities associated with automotive design verification.

The simulator allows for successful fault effect analysis for various fault modes, including single event transient (SET), single event upset (SEU), stuck-at 0/stuck-at 1, and dual-point faults, while outperforming existing design-for-test (DFT)-based flows for safety-related fault effect analysis.

“With this new certification from TÜV Rheinland, our customers can be assured that our new LSIs for the automotive market are designed with the highest specifications for automotive safety,” stated Nobuhiro Kanai, LSI Headquarters Head of Product Development, ROHM Co, Ltd. “Our flow, utilising the Cadence Automotive Solution’s safety verification component, has been designed to be compliant with the new, second edition of ISO 26262, which will be released in 2018. Fault injection is a mandatory feature for achieving ASIL D certification and compliance with the second edition of the ISO 26262 standard.

“Additionally, the Cadence solution enabled us to do fault injection simulation using the same testbench, design and debugging environment, which significantly speeds our verification process.”

The Cadence Automotive Solution’s Safety Verification flow automates what can otherwise be a manual, time-consuming process for achieving ISO 26262 functional safety compliance.

The solution is part of the Cadence Verification Suite’s application-optimised solution for automotive devices.

It also supports the company’s System Design Enablement strategy, which enables system and semiconductor companies to create complete, differentiated end products more efficiently.

Hitachi uses Cadence formal verification technologies

Cadence Design Systems announces that Hitachi has used the Cadence JasperGold Formal Verification Platform to developνCOSS S-zero, an industrial facilities functional safety controller that has been certified for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 in accordance with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61508 Series functional safety standard.

Through use of the Cadence technologies, Hitachi successfully developed measures for fault avoidance to comply with IEC 61508 Series SIL 4 requirements, ensuring that its functional safety controller operates correctly in response to its inputs and maintains safety.

Hitachi used the JasperGold platform to easily adopt formal methods and perform the multiple hardware verification tasks needed to deliver a robust, fail-safe mechanism that meets IEC 61508 safety requirements.

Use of the Cadence technologies helped Hitachi verify hardware calculation elements that were developed internally for system-specific controls.

The JasperGold platform’s ProofCore technology, which analyses the design under test (DUT), helped Hitachi improve its verification environment to ensure that the functional safety controller operates correctly in response to its inputs while maintaining safety.

Hitachi also incorporated Cadence simulation and emulation solutions with the JasperGold platform to achieve 100% verification of the safety requirements.

“Functional safety compliance is critical for industrial facilities systems and our customers,” said Masahiro Shiraishi, group leader engineer of Control System Platform Division, Omika Works at Hitachi, Ltd. “When compared with our previous verification methodology that was based on dynamic simulation, our new formal methodology based on the Cadence JasperGold platform allowed us to identify corner case bugs much earlier. Our close collaboration with Cadence lets our customers confidently adopt our industrial facilities functional safety controller knowing that it meets IEC 61508 compliance requirements.”

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