Title: Hardware Safety Engineer learning path | ISO 26262 Academy URL: https://iso26262.academy/path/hardware-safety-engineer Description: Part 5 end to end: mechanisms, metrics, FMEDA and qualification of safety-related hardware. --- **ISO 26262 Academy** · Learning path · open to read # Hardware Safety Engineer Part 5 end to end: mechanisms, metrics, FMEDA and qualification of safety-related hardware. [Create a free account to start](https://iso26262.academy/register?plan=free&from=%2Fpath%2Fhardware-safety-engineer) [Explore Career Path](https://iso26262.academy/features/career-path) - **4** weeks - **22** items - **13.6** 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. 1. **Week 1** Functional safety foundations → Hardware development essentials 3h 28m - Quiz Calibration: foundations12 questions 20m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Hardware development per Part 5](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hardware-engineering-iso26262) 15m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Safety mechanisms & diagnostics](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/safety-mechanisms-diagnostics) 1h 10m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read Process: Hardware Design and Safety Analysis 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: hardware essentials10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Hardware metrics (part 1 of 2)](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hardware-metrics) First half: failure rates, SPFM and LFM. 1h [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 2. **Week 2** Hardware architectural metrics → FMEDA & dependent failures 3h 52m - Read [Hardware metrics (part 2 of 2)](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hardware-metrics) Second half: PMHF and evaluation against targets. 55m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Simulator Simulator: Markov analysis 45m [Free](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-free) [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: hardware metrics12 questions 22m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [FMEDA](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/fmeda) 50m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Simulator Simulator: run an FMEDA 1h [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 3. **Week 3** FMEDA & dependent failures → Qualification & interfaces 3h 48m - Read [Dependent failure analysis](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/dependent-failure-analysis) 45m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Simulator Simulator: run a DFA 45m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: FMEDA & DFA10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Hardware element evaluation](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hardware-element-evaluation) 30m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read Process: Hardware Integration and Verification 25m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Hardware-software interface](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/hardware-software-interface) 45m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Freedom from interference](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/freedom-from-interference) 20m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 4. **Week 4** Qualification & interfaces → Semiconductors (Part 11) 2h 26m - Quiz Quiz: qualification & interfaces10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Semiconductors (part 1 of 2)](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/iso-26262-semiconductors) First half: IP, base failure rates, fault models. 55m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Read [Semiconductors (part 2 of 2)](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/iso-26262-semiconductors) Second half: dependent failures and DFA on silicon. 55m [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) - Quiz Quiz: semiconductor safety10 questions 18m [Pro](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-basic) [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) Templates ### 119 work-product templates come with this path Ready-to-adapt documents matched to the modules above. Reference material, not extra hours on your schedule. - Functional Safety Concept - HAZOP Worksheet - Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment Report - Item Definition - Motorcycle HARA Verification Report - Motorcycle Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment - Motorcycle Item Definition - Verification Report of the Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment - Analysis of Effectiveness of Hardware Architecture - Analysis of Safety Goal Violations Due to Random Hardware Failures - FMEDA Worksheet (Board-level) - Hardware Architecture Metrics Verification Report - +107 more Further reading ## Also on this track. Related guides outside the core schedule, for when you want to go wider. [Browse all guides](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts#library) - Vehicle domains [Battery & HV Powertrain Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/battery-hv-safety) Functional 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. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 14 chapters - System level [EMC & Transient Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/emc-transient-safety) The 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. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 13 chapters - Hardware [FPGA Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/fpga-safety) Hardware 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. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 14 chapters - Vehicle domains [Inverter and Motor Control Safety](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/inverter-motor-control-safety) How 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. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 12 chapters - System level [Power & Clock Supervision](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/power-clock-supervision) The 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. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 14 chapters - Hardware [Soft Errors & Transient Faults](https://iso26262.academy/features/concepts/soft-errors) A 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. [Expert](https://iso26262.academy/pricing#plan-advanced) 12 chapters 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. [Start this path](https://iso26262.academy/register?plan=free&from=%2Fpath%2Fhardware-safety-engineer) [What Pro and Expert unlock](https://iso26262.academy/pricing)