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All EVs Need the Midas Functional Safety Platform

A more appropriate title for this blog could be “All Vehicles with ADAS Need the Midas Functional Safety Platform”.

EVs tend to have advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) because they’re newer, but not all vehicles with ADAS are EVs!

Certifying Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is a multifaceted process involving rigorous testing, validation, and regulatory compliance to ensure safety and reliability.
As ADAS technologies become increasingly sophisticated, the certification process is evolving to meet these challenges.

The ISO26262 standard provides the requirements to be met to attain safety certification for digital designs.

One of the key aspects of ADAS certification is functional safety. This includes:

  • Ensuring the system operates as intended under all conditions, including failures.
  • Adherence to standards like ISO26262.
  • Rigorous testing to identify potential hazards and mitigate risks.

The Midas Safety Platform provides early-phase exploration of functional safety architectures and leverages native chip design data to perform accurate safety analysis efficiently.

The platform is a unified solution available across Cadence products, and with its modular architecture, it supports both embedded and standalone usage with the Cadence flow.

After extracting the design information, an output Midas database file contains the isolated DUT and provides the design components and their fault tolerances to various tools in the flow.

Conformal can easily verify design transformations that include necessary components like TMR for safety.

In these videos, we explore how to create reports for both Transient and Permanent faults.

Creating Detailed FMEDA in Midas (Video)

Creating Architectural FMEDA in Midas (Video) 


Also, read this blog post for additional motivation: What Is Zonal Architecture? And Why Is it Upending the Automotive Supply Chain?

What Next?

Join the Midas Safety Platform Introduction and the Functional Safety Implementation and Verification with Midas trainings and learn more about:

  • Setting up and defining the USF file
  • Using the Midas Safety Platform to create functional safety reports, and
  • Midas integration with the Genus  Synthesis Solution, Innovus  Implementation System, and Conformal Equivalence Checker tools to implement functional safety

The online class is free for all Cadence customers with a Cadence Learning and Support Portal account. If you don’t have a Cadence Support account, go to Registration Help or Register Now and complete the requested information. For instructor-led training sessions "Live" or "Blended" please contact Cadence Training.

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