ISO 26262 Academy · Learning path · open to read
System Architect
Part 3 and Part 4: from item definition through technical safety concept to integration.
- 5 weeks
- 24 items
- 17.2 hours
- 0 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 → Concept phase mastery3h 5m
- QuizCalibration: foundations12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadItem definition & concept phase45mExpert plan pricing
- ReadE-Gas monitoring concept1h 10mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: Item Definition25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: ASIL Decomposition25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- Week 2Concept phase mastery3h 40m
- ReadTechnical Safety ConceptThe full TSC treatment; budget two sittings if your week is tight.3h 40mExpert plan pricing
- Week 3Concept phase mastery → System design for safety3h 50m
- ReadProcess: Technical Safety Concept25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: concept phase12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSafety design patterns55mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadDependent failure analysis45mExpert plan pricing
- SimulatorSimulator: run a DFA45mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSafety-related timing40mExpert plan pricing
- Week 4System design for safety → Interfaces & integration3h 33m
- QuizQuiz: system design12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadHardware-software interface45mExpert plan pricing
- ReadDevelopment interface agreement20mExpert plan pricing
- ReadVerification & validation overview15mExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: Specification and Management of Safety Requirements25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadProcess: System Integration and Testing25mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: integration10 questions18mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadSafety analyses compared30mExpert plan pricing
- ReadFMEA15mExpert plan pricing
- Week 5Analyses for architects3h 5m
- SimulatorSimulator: build an FMEA45mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
- ReadFTA essentials (chapters 1-8)Focus on chapters 1-8: fundamentals through ISO 26262 usage.2hExpert plan pricing
- QuizQuiz: safety analyses12 questions20mPro plan pricingExpert plan pricing
Templates
49 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.
- Vehicle domainsBattery & 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.
- System levelEMC & 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.
- Vehicle domainsInverter 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.
- Beyond the standardMotorcycle 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.
- SoftwareProduct 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.
- Concept phaseSafety 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.
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.