Safety Design Patterns

Catalog of proven architectural patterns: redundancy, monitoring, graceful degradation, plausibility checks, watchdogs, and more—mapped to hazards, ASIL targets, and verification strategies.

Reusable architectural patterns for achieving functional safety including redundancy (homogeneous, heterogeneous, diverse), monitoring and supervision, graceful degradation, plausibility checking, watchdog timers, and fail-operational/fail-safe strategies. Each pattern mapped to applicable ASIL levels, hazard types, failure modes, and verification approaches. Includes implementation guidance, trade-offs, and real-world automotive examples from powertrain, chassis, and ADAS domains.