Verification Of Functional Safety
By Brian Bailey, Semiconductor Engineering
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But you also have to prove that those safety mechanisms are up to the task. “Hardware safety mechanisms are a core ingredient to enable functional safety and they need to be verified from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives,” says Jörg Grosse, product manager for functional safety at OneSpin Solutions. “Since the purpose of hardware safety mechanisms is to protect against random faults, some type of fault injection is recommended by the safety standards to verify them. On a basic level, this means that a tool must inject a fault and verify that the safety mechanism can detect it.”
