Understand the basics of functional safety for passenger vehicles required by the ISO 26262.

The automotive industry is facing a paradigm shift, by introducing software-define functions, applications, and modules. Aspects of safety in such systems are of paramount importance since there are people involved. This course covers the basics of functional safety, including key concepts and the important ISO 26262 standard in automotive. You will be briefly introduced to safe architecture design, and you will learn what safety and compliance mean to software design.

Course topics:

Introduction to functional safety
Functional safety concepts: fail-safe, fault-tolerant, fail-operational system design
ISO26262 and its application in next-generation vehicles
Safety management and related processes
Introduction to hazard and risk analysis
Safety concepts in risk analysis
Technical safety concept and system design
Hardware development vs safety
Software development vs safety
Safety decomposition and examples
Safety design exercises