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For functional safety critical systems it is necessary to manage both systemic faults and detect/prevent random faults. Texas Instruments has created a development process for safety critical semiconductors that greatly reduces probability of systematic failure. This process builds on a standard Quality Managed (QM) development process as the foundation for safety critical development. A second layer of development activities that are specific to safety critical developments targeting IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 then augments this standard QM process.
In 2007, TI first saw the need to augment this standard QM development process in order to develop products according to IEC 61508. TI engaged with safety industry leader exida consulting to ensure the development was compliant to the IEC 61508 standard. During 2008, a process for safety critical development according to IEC 61508 first edition was implemented at TI. By mid-2009, it became clear that the emerging IEC 61508 second edition and ISO 26262 functional safety standards would require enhanced process flow capabilities. Due to the lack of maturity of these draft standards, it was not possible to implement a development process that ensured compliance before final versions of the standards were available.
TI joined the ISO 26262 working group in mid-2009 as a way to better understand and influence the standard as applicable to microcontroller development. As part of the US Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and international working group for ISO 26262, TI has notable contributions to:
In mid-2010, TI started developing a process flow compliant to IEC 61508 2nd edition and ISO 26262 draft baseline 18. TI worked with Yogitech in the ISO 26262 international working group and found that the companies have complementary capabilities. A partnership for engineering services and safety consulting services to accelerate new safety-related product development was formed between the two companies. Yogitech's existing fRMethodology development process and TI's IEC 61508 development process were merged and enhanced to create a new process addressing both ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 2nd edition. This process has gone through a process of continual improvement as ISO 26262 standards development continues.