Design-For-Safety For Automotive IC Design: Challenges And Opportunities
Alessandra Nardi, Samir Camdzic, Antonino Armato, Francesco Lertora · 2019
As the automotive industry marches towards higher level of autonomous driving, the design supply chain is shaping up to support a great level of complexity and new requirements, such as Functional Safety, that have not been traditionally part of the design/verification/implementation flow. The full automation supported in EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools for traditional metrics has not yet reached maturity for the new safety metrics and is a green field of innovation very much needed to holistically enable the development of semiconductors for autonomous driving. This paper introduces the requirements to Design-For-Safety, it presents some of the challenges and opportunities for flow automation, and it also reviews commonalities and differences between the Digital and Analog/Mixed-Signal (A/MS) flows.