Tool For Automation Of Functional Safety Metric Calculation And Prototyping Of Functional Safety Systems

摘要

A tool for performing a functional safety analysis of an integrated circuit device tailored to a customer's specific application and implementation of the device. Information regarding a user's specific implementation of a given integrated circuit device is provided by the customer as input to the safety analysis tool. The tool then automatedly performs a functional safety analysis based on the information regarding the user's specific implementation of the integrated circuit device. In one embodiment, the customer specifies specific functional modules of the integrated circuit device, and the tool performs a functional safety analysis of the integrated circuit device that considers the functional modules selected by the user. In another embodiment, the customer specifies diagnostic measures that are implemented in the user's application of the integrated circuit device, and the tool automatedly performs a functional safety analysis of the integrated circuit device taking into account the diagnostic measures selected by the user.