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Parts 1, 2 and 8
Foundations
Vocabulary, lifecycle, roles and the management system everything else assumes.
- Confirmation MeasuresLearn when reviews, audits, and assessments require higher independence based on ASIL. Covers functional safety assessment (FSA) planning, TCL assessment, finding management, and confirmation evidence integration.
- Development Interface AgreementLearn how to define clear safety responsibilities and evidence exchange between OEM and supplier per ISO 26262-8. Covers DIA content structure, RASIC matrix, lifecycle from initiation to production, and assessment coordination.
- Faults and FailuresLearn the complete fault taxonomy: single-point, residual, latent, and safe faults plus transient vs. permanent classifications. Covers FTTI analysis, dependent failure analysis, FMEDA calculations, and the bathtub curve.
- Functional Safety Roles & Career PathsUnderstand the three core ISO 26262 positions: the Engineer who builds safety, the Manager who plans and owns the safety case, and the Assessor who independently confirms it. Plus confirmation measures, independence levels and a career roadmap.
- IEC 61508: Functional Safety of E/E/PE SystemsThe basic safety publication behind the whole functional safety family: the EUC and the risk gap that sizes a SIL, the sixteen-phase safety lifecycle, PFDavg and PFH across three demand modes, the architectural constraints of Route 1H and Route 2H, the random hardware arithmetic, systematic capability, Part 3 software rigor, and why ASIL D does not equal SIL 3.
- ISO 26262 vs Other Safety StandardsLearn how ISO 26262 compares with IEC 61508, DO-178C, EN50128, ISO 13849, and SOTIF across key dimensions. Covers risk classification differences, lifecycle approaches, V&V strategies, and multi-standard compliance.
- Safety Culture & CompetenceISO 26262 Part 2 made operational: observable safety culture indicators, building the safety organization, independence of confirmation measures, provable competence records, anomaly handling, and how to measure culture and make the safety-first commitment real.
- Safety Plan DevelopmentLearn how to plan all safety activities, roles, milestones, and work products across the ISO 26262 lifecycle. Includes Gantt chart visualization, tailoring guidelines, and audit readiness strategies.
- The Automotive Safety Standards MapISO 26262 covers hazards caused by an E/E system doing the wrong thing. Sensor limits, attackers and learned models each needed a document of their own. This is the map of how all of them fit together.
Part 3
Concept phase
From the item definition to safety goals, ASILs and the functional safety concept.
2h of videoASIL DecompositionLearn valid decomposition schemes to allocate lower ASILs to redundant elements while maintaining safety integrity. Covers independence criteria, a steer-by-wire case study, FTA integration, and argumentation strategies.- E-Gas (Electronic Throttle Control) ConceptLearn the German automotive reference architecture for electronic throttle control with monitoring and fallback modes. Covers redundancy patterns, plausibility checks, limp-home modes, and how E-Gas principles apply to modern ECUs.
2h of videoFunctional Safety ConceptLearn how to derive safety goals, define safe states, and build functional safety requirements from HARA results. Covers fault reactions, degradation strategies, operating modes, and architecture diagrams with interactive videos.
2h 30m of videoHazard Analysis & Risk Assessment (HARA)Learn how to identify vehicle-level hazards and assign ASIL ratings through Severity, Exposure, and Controllability assessment. Covers operational situations, FTTI concepts, and advanced topics for ADAS and distributed systems.- Item Definition & Concept-Phase InitiationGet the first ISO 26262-3 step right: define the item boundary, interfaces, operating modes, and assumptions of use that HARA, safety goals, and the whole safety case inherit from the concept phase.
- Safety Design Decisions Across Vehicle DomainsNine automotive domains walk the exact same ISO 26262 Part 3-6 chain - Item Definition, HARA, FSC, TSC, HSI, hardware and software - yet arrive at radically different technical answers. See why a traction inverter, a brake ECU and a cockpit display controller end up nothing alike.
- Safety-Related Timing: FTTI, FDTI & FHTITreat time as a safety property. Learn the ISO 26262 fault-handling intervals (FTTI, FDTI, FRTI, FHTI), how diagnostic test rate sets detection latency, and how to budget detection and reaction so a fault is controlled before a hazardous event.
Part 4
System level
Technical safety concept, architecture, interfaces and the mechanisms that make a system safe.
- Boot & Reset SafetyThe transitions every ECU makes and nobody watches: the boot chain from power-on reset to application start, reset taxonomies and escalation ladders, startup self-tests, watchdogs, reset storms, brownout recovery and safe shutdown.
- Calibration & Parameter SafetyThe same binary, a thousand behaviors: configuration data vs calibration data, ISO 26262-6 Annex C requirements, A2L and XCP workflows, CRC and plausibility protection in the ECU, dataset release, variant coding risks and tool confidence.
- Diagnostics & Remote Service SafetyThe diagnostic connector is a command path, not a data port: UDS, DoIP and DTC mechanics, the shift to service-oriented diagnostics on vehicle computers, which read, write, routine and mode actions can violate a safety goal, and the vehicle-side gating, bounding, containment and evidence mechanisms that keep the path safe.
- EMC & Transient SafetyThe environment as a fault source: how EMI, ESD, load dump and coupled transients become random faults, the ISO 7637 / ISO 11452 / ISO 10605 standards map, immunity as a safety argument, and filtering, shielding and plausibility as safety measures.
- Freedom from Interference (FFI)Learn how to ensure elements of different ASILs do not interfere through temporal, spatial, and data partitioning. Covers MPUs, hypervisors, bus monitoring, multi-core strategies, and evidence generation for assessments.
- HMI & Display SafetyThe driver as a safety mechanism and the pixels as its wiring: controllability credit, warning timing inside the FTTI, tell-tale integrity, and the mechanisms that keep digital clusters and head-up displays honest.
- Hypervisors & Mixed-Criticality SystemsLearn how ASIL D and QM software safely share one SoC through hardware-assisted virtualization and certified partitioning. From ECU consolidation to freedom from interference, this is the discipline behind modern cockpit, ADAS and zonal controllers.
- In-Vehicle Network SafetyWhat CAN, CAN FD, CAN XL, LIN, FlexRay and automotive Ethernet actually guarantee, the communication failure catalog of ISO 26262-6 Annex D, receiver-driven signal contracts, the black-channel argument, AUTOSAR E2E protection, containment, gateways and the comm matrix as a safety artifact.
- Multi-Core Safety ArchitecturesHow automotive silicon catches its own random hardware faults: lockstep and split-lock cores, safety islands on big SoCs, and hardware and software self-tests. Then how you turn all of it into an ASIL claim with real coverage numbers.
- Power & Clock SupervisionThe two assumptions every other safety mechanism silently depends on: valid supply rails and a trustworthy time base. Power trees, safety PMICs, voltage monitors, sequencing, reset escalation, watchdogs, clock monitors, the independence argument, timing and energy budgets, latent-fault self-test, and the FMEDA rows they all feed.
- Safety Design PatternsLearn proven architectural patterns like redundancy, monitoring, watchdogs, and graceful degradation mapped to ASIL targets. Includes real-world automotive examples from powertrain, chassis, ADAS, and the E-Gas case study.
- Safety Element out of Context (SEooC)Learn how to develop reusable safety elements with documented assumptions and guaranteed safety capability. Covers assumption management, integration constraints, safety manuals, and supplier-integrator collaboration workflows.
- Safety Mechanisms & DiagnosticsLearn mechanism selection from plausibility checks and watchdogs to E2E protection and memory tests. Covers diagnostic coverage calculation, fault detection timing (FDTI), and how mechanisms map to SPFM/LFM metrics.
2h of videoTechnical Safety ConceptLearn how to translate safety goals and FSC into technical safety requirements (TSRs), system architecture, and HW/SW allocation. Covers safety mechanisms, diagnostic coverage, FMEA integration, and a complete worked example with templates.- The Hardware-Software Interface (HSI)The HSI is the bilateral contract where ISO 26262 hardware and software meet. Learn to specify registers, allocate diagnostics, budget timing against the FTTI, and run joint reviews so safety mechanisms actually work at the boundary.
- Zonal & Central Compute SafetyWhat consolidation does to a safety concept: zone controllers and central computers, item boundaries across shared platform elements, safety islands and mixed criticality, containment from silicon to street, zone power and eFuses, backbone and gateway failures, monitoring tiers, reset domains, dependent failures, vehicle-level degradation and evidence aggregation.
Parts 5 and 11
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Hardware development, the metrics that prove it, and semiconductors.
- FMEDA: Quantitative Hardware Safety AnalysisLearn how Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis turns component failure rates in FIT, failure-mode distributions, and diagnostic coverage into the SPFM, LFM, and PMHF metrics that ISO 26262-5 requires for safety-related hardware.
- FPGA SafetyHardware whose circuit is data: configuration upsets and essential bits, scrubbing against the FTTI, TMR in the fabric, HDL discipline, tool confidence, and the FPGA FMEDA that closes the safety case.
- Hardware Element EvaluationStudy ISO 26262-8:2018 Clause 13: element classes, evidence, evaluation scope and integration responsibilities across ten chapters.
3h 10m of videoHardware MetricsLearn how to calculate SPFM, LFM, and PMHF with correct failure rate data and diagnostic coverage values. Covers ASIL-dependent targets, data sources (IEC 61709, FIDES), common calculation pitfalls, and compliance strategies.- ISO 26262 and SemiconductorsPractical handbook for applying ISO 26262 Part 11 to digital, analog, programmable logic, multi-core SoCs, and sensor silicon. Covers SEooC and DIA for IPs and chips, on-chip safety mechanisms, FMEDA at silicon, DFA at die level, fault injection campaigns, and EDA tool qualification.
- Soft Errors & Transient FaultsA cosmic ray hits a memory cell and your ASIL D function computes with a wrong value. This concept walks from the physics of radiation-induced bit flips through single event effects, ECC and hardened design, all the way to Part 11 quantification.
Parts 6 and 8
Software
Software process, architecture, coding, tools, platforms and reuse.
- Agile Development Methods in ISO 26262Learn how to integrate Scrum and SAFe with ISO 26262 without compromising safety evidence or audit readiness. Covers safety backlogs, ASIL-aware definition of done, sprint-level traceability, and automated verification gates.
1h 15m of videoConfidence in the Use of Software ToolsLearn how to classify tools by TCL (1-3) based on Tool Impact, Tool Error Detection, and ASIL requirements. Covers a 7-chapter structure with qualification methods, practical guidelines, and worked examples for common toolchains.- Functional Safety with AUTOSARAUTOSAR gives the car industry a standard software platform, but a specification cannot be ASIL anything, and a qualified stack does not make your software safe. Learn how the Classic and Adaptive platforms turn ISO 26262-6 requirements into concrete mechanisms: memory partitioning, timing protection, the Watchdog Manager and end-to-end communication protection.
- ISO 26262 and Automotive SPICEOEMs demand an Automotive SPICE capability level and ISO 26262 compliance in the same statement of work, and new teams treat them as two mountains to climb. This concept shows they are one mountain seen from two sides: a shared V-model, one traceability backbone and a single set of work products.
- Linux and Open-Source SafetyBuilding an ISO 26262 safety case for software nobody developed for you: pin down the exact kernel as an element, choose between qualification, proven-in-use and ISO PAS 8926, and guard Linux with external safety mechanisms.
- Model-Based DevelopmentYour ASIL D torque limiter was never typed by a human; a code generator produced it from a Simulink model. Learn how ISO 26262-6 accepts autocoded production C through modeling guidelines, the xIL ladder, back-to-back testing, and a tool confidence argument.
- Product Lines and Variant SafetyKeeping ISO 26262 evidence valid across a family of vehicles: variability models a safety argument can trust, family HARA scope, feature interaction screening, Annex C configuration and calibration data, constraints that make unsafe configurations unbuildable, and a modular safety case.
- Reuse and Legacy Software SafetyHow to argue safety for what you did not develop this time: reuse routes, delta and impact analysis, carryover of unchanged elements, ISO/PAS 8926 qualification, wrappers, assumptions of use, and the rules for reusing verification evidence honestly.
- Software Architectural & Unit DesignLearn architecture patterns for fault isolation, testability, and diagnostic coverage in safety-critical software. Covers modularity, design-by-contract, complexity metrics, and structural coverage requirements per ASIL.
- Software Coding GuidelinesLearn how to select and enforce coding standards like MISRA C/C++, CERT C, and AUTOSAR C++ for safety compliance. Covers rule tailoring, static analysis, deviation management, and memory/timing/concurrency safety patterns.
- SW Critical Path & Dependent Failure AnalysisLearn how to identify safety-critical software execution paths and prioritize verification effort where it matters most. Covers control flow analysis, dependent failure analysis (DFA), and strategic placement of safety mechanisms.
Part 9
Safety analyses
The inductive, deductive and systemic methods, and when each earns its place.
- Dependent Failure Analysis (DFA)Learn how ISO 26262-9 Clause 7 verifies that redundant channels and ASIL decomposition are genuinely independent, by hunting dependent failure initiators and coupling factors that let one root cause defeat several safety elements at once.
- Event Tree AnalysisModel what happens after an initiating event: barriers split the outcome space, sequences get frequencies, and linked fault trees turn accident scenarios into a quantified risk picture for ISO 26262.
- Fault Tree Analysis MasteryLearn top-down fault tree construction using AND/OR gates to quantify how failures combine into hazardous events. Includes an interactive FTA calculator, cut-set analysis, PMHF support, and comparison with FMEA.
- FMEA Mastery for Functional SafetyLearn bottom-up failure mode analysis to identify single-point, residual, and latent faults in your system. Covers scoping, severity/occurrence rating, diagnostic coverage linkage, and integration with SPFM/LFM calculations.
- HAZOP (Hazard and Operability Study) in ISO 26262Learn to think in deviations, not just failures, using guide words applied to a system's design intention to surface hazards a checklist would miss. See how a technique born in the process industry becomes a rigorous, worksheet-driven feeding source for the ISO 26262 HARA.
- Markov Chains AnalysisLearn state-transition modeling for multi-state systems with degradation, repair, and fault tolerance scenarios. Includes an interactive Markov calculator, PMHF validation for redundant architectures, and comparison with FTA/FMEA.
- Safety AnalysesLearn how HARA, FMEA, FTA, STPA, DFA, and HAZOP complement each other across the ISO 26262 lifecycle. Covers method selection criteria, analysis sequencing, and a guide to choosing the right technique for each risk.
- Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA)Learn control-theoretic hazard analysis to find unsafe control actions that traditional FMEA and FTA miss. Covers STAMP theory, UCA identification, loss scenarios, and practical integration with ISO 26262.
Parts 2, 4 and 8
Verification and assessment
Testing, fault injection, the safety case, assessment, and life after design release.
- Change Impact Analysis for Carryover & Modified SystemsMost automotive projects reuse existing systems. This page shows how ISO 26262 impact analysis and Part 8 Clause 8 change management decide what stays valid, what must be re-verified, and how to keep carryover, variants, and facelifts safe.
- Fault Injection & Safety-Mechanism VerificationProve that safety mechanisms detect and react to faults within the Fault-Tolerant Time Interval, turning FMEDA Diagnostic Coverage claims into demonstrated evidence across hardware, software, simulation, and system-level ISO 26262 campaigns.
- Functional Safety Assessment & AuditLearn how to prepare for and execute independent functional safety assessments per ISO 26262-2. Covers evidence package assembly, assessor qualifications, common non-conformities, and corrective action tracking.
- Goal Structuring Notation (GSN)Learn to turn ISO 26262 work products into an explicit, reviewable safety argument: the six core elements, the SupportedBy and InContextOf relationships, the six-step construction method, modular arguments, and the review practices assessors expect.
- Homologation, Regulations & LiabilityA functionally safe vehicle is not automatically a street-legal one, and an approved vehicle is not automatically liability-proof. Learn how type approval, the key UN Regulations and product liability law interlock with ISO 26262 for E/E and automated driving systems.
- Production, Operation, Service & DecommissioningISO 26262-7 governs the safety lifecycle after design release: production controls, operation and service instructions, field monitoring, repair and diagnostics, and safe end-of-life decommissioning of high-voltage and pyrotechnic systems.
- Proven in UseISO 26262-8 Clause 14 lets you trade development evidence for statistically demonstrated field experience. This concept shows when that trade actually closes and, far more often, why it does not.
- Safety Case DevelopmentLearn how to structure claims, evidence, and arguments using GSN or CAE notation into a living safety case. Covers modular structure, argument patterns, incremental development aligned with sprints, and assessment readiness.
- Verification & ValidationLearn multi-level verification from unit testing through system and vehicle validation with ASIL-dependent coverage criteria. Covers reviews, HIL/SIL testing, fault injection, MC/DC coverage, and evidence management.
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Vehicle domains
The same standard applied to brakes, batteries, steering, perception and cameras.
- Actuator SafetyMotors, valves and relays are where safety goals become physical - learn how actuation channels fail stuck or runaway, how feedback and diagnostics catch it, and how safe states from de-energize to active hold are engineered and quantified.
- Battery & HV Powertrain SafetyFunctional safety for electric vehicles from cell to wheel: how lithium-ion cells fail, the BMS measurement chain, contactors and HVIL, isolation monitoring, safe torque, charging and thermal runaway - plus the FMEDA and FTTI work behind it.
- Hydrogen Fuel Cell SafetyA fuel you cannot see or smell, stored at 700 bar, converted in a stack that is damaged by careless shutdowns: the FCEV system tour, the two safety worlds of E/E malfunction and physical certification, seven safety goals, sensing and shutoff, a graded reaction ladder, modes and transitions, HV coordination, dependent failures and one worked safety concept.
- Interior and Mirror CamerasThe cameras that face the other way: camera monitor systems that replace mirrors, and interior cameras that watch the driver. A mirror camera rarely fails by going blank - it fails by showing you, convincingly, where things were.
- Inverter and Motor Control SafetyHow a traction inverter earns its ASIL: unintended-torque hazards, Active Short Circuit vs freewheeling safe states, three-level torque monitoring, and the protection layers from gate driver to control software.
- Perception System SafetyPerception treated as a safety-relevant engineered subsystem: the requirements derived from vehicle hazards, the pipeline and fusion architecture behind the environment model, the uncertainty a planner can act on, honest degradation, monitors that know their blind spots, and the evidence that turns all of it into a safety case.
- Steer-by-Wire SafetyWhat happens to functional safety when the steering column disappears: loss-of-steering and self-steering hazards, why steering has no simple safe state, fail-operational dual-lane architectures, torque-feedback integrity, redundant power and communication, and the mechanical-backup trade-off.
- Vehicle Motion Control SafetyBrakes, steering, propulsion, regenerative braking, stability control, torque vectoring and active suspension all push on the same four tire contact patches: motion requests and capability contracts, control allocation, authority and arbitration, dependent failures, fallback distribution, timing and the evidence a coordinated chassis function needs.
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Beyond the standard
Where ISO 26262 ends and its neighbours begin.
- Aerospace Functional SafetyHow civil aviation makes systems safe when no safe state is reachable in flight: 25.1309 failure conditions and probability targets, the FHA, PSSA and SSA chain, development assurance levels, DO-178C and DO-254, common cause analysis, fly-by-wire architectures and integrated modular avionics, then three honest comparison chapters against ISO 26262.
- AV Safety: ISO 26262 + SotIF + ML in PracticePractical handbook bridging ISO 26262, ISO 21448 (SotIF), ISO/PAS 8800, and UL 4600 for autonomous vehicles with machine learning. Covers ODD, fail-operational architectures, scenario V&V, and joint safety cases.
- Functional Safety in MachineryHow machines that can crush, cut and entangle are engineered so they do not: ISO 12100 risk assessment, PLr and SIL targets, the five ISO 13849 categories, MTTFd, DCavg, CCF and PFHd, safe motion and safe fieldbuses, validation, the CE route, and three chapters comparing the machinery model with ISO 26262.
- Functional Safety in RailwayThe CENELEC world explained for automotive engineers: EN 50126 RAMS, EN 50129 safety cases and SIL, EN 50716 software, EN 50159 safe communication, ETCS and interlocking, plus three chapters comparing the railway risk model honestly against ISO 26262.
- Motorcycle AdaptationLearn ISO 26262-12 adaptations for single-track vehicles including modified controllability and ASIL assessments. Covers motorcycle-specific hazards, rider factors, and tailored requirements for ABS, traction control, and suspension.
- Safety & Cybersecurity Co-EngineeringHow ISO 26262 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity engineering work together on connected vehicles: aligning HARA with TARA, sharing work products, resolving safety-versus-security conflicts, and satisfying UNECE R155 and R156 type approval.
- Safety-Aware Machine Learning (ISO 8800)Engineer AI and ML components that survive a safety case. Learn the ISO/PAS 8800:2024 lifecycle on top of ISO 26262 and ISO 21448, covering dataset coverage, robustness, runtime monitoring, and assurance arguments.
- SotIF for the Functional Safety EngineerA FuSi-engineer manual for extending HARA, FSC, TSC, FMEDA, and the safety case into ISO 21448 (SotIF), ISO/PAS 8800, and ISO/IEC TR 5469. Deeply technical with worked examples on triggering conditions, acceptance criteria, and field monitoring.
- Trucks & Buses AdaptationHow ISO 26262:2018 extended functional safety to trucks, buses, trailers and semi-trailers. Covers the normative Clause 6.4.5 on managing variances, multi-stage manufacturing interfaces, heavy-vehicle hazards and worst-case ASIL determination across the affected parts of the standard.
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