ISO 26262 Academy · Learning path · open to read
Student / Explorer
A guided tour across all levels: system, software, hardware, analyses and processes.
- 3 weeks
- 20 items
- 9.1 hours
- 1 free with an account
Career Path gives you an assessment and a roadmap based on your experience and goals. This track is the fixed schedule for one role.
The schedule
Week by week.
Guides, practice and checks in the order they build on each other. Open a guide to see what it covers; each item shows every plan that includes it.
- Week 1Functional safety foundations → System level3h 43m
- QuizCalibration: foundations12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadItem definition & concept phase45mExpert plan pricing
- ReadE-Gas monitoring concept1h 10mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: system level10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSoftware architecture and unit design20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadCoding guidelines50mExpert plan pricing
- Week 2Software level → Hardware level3h 54m
- QuizQuiz: software level10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadHardware development per Part 515mExpert plan pricing
- ReadFMEDA50mExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: hardware level10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSafety analyses compared30mExpert plan pricing
- ReadFMEA15mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: build an FMEA45mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSTPA25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: analyses10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- Week 3Processes & management1h 28m
- ReadThe Safety Plan15mExpert plan pricing
- ReadChange impact analysis10mExpert plan pricing
- ReadSafety Element out of Context20mExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: Functional Safety Concept25mFree plan pricingPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: processes10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
Templates
120 work-product templates come with this path
Ready-to-adapt documents matched to the modules above. Reference material, not extra hours on your schedule.
Further reading
Also on this track.
Related guides outside the core schedule, for when you want to go wider.
- Beyond the standardAutomotive Cybersecurity with ISO/SAE 21434Learn how ISO/SAE 21434 runs cybersecurity engineering across a vehicle program: the organizational CSMS, item definition and assets, TARA from damage scenarios to risk treatment, cybersecurity goals and CAL, secure development, security testing, and what UNECE R155 and R156 demand after release.
- System levelCalibration & 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.
- System levelDiagnostics & 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.
- Beyond the standardAerospace 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.
- Beyond the standardFunctional 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.
- Beyond the standardFunctional 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.
Start this path
Week one starts with a free account.
The free plan opens the first items on every track: one full concept guide, 3 templates, 1 process, the Markov and RBD simulators and 5 practice exams a month. Pro and Expert unlock the rest of the schedule.