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Synopsys claims to offer the industry’s first comprehensive functional safety verification suite. It includes unified failure modes and effects analysis/ failure modes, effects and diagnostic analysis (FMEA/FMEDA) and fault classification automation, powerful verification engines and ISO 26262-certified tools for IP and SoC certification.

According to Synopsys, it can reduce the effort required for functional safety verification up to 50 per cent compared to traditional manual and error-prone functional safety verification point tools.

The suite targets ISO 26262 certification for automotive IP and semiconductor companies for the highest Automotive Safety Integrity Levels (ASIL D).

Part of the verification solution is the VC Functional Safety Manager, a FMEA/FMEDA and fault classification automation technology.   

Automotive semiconductor designs are growing in complexity to meet the increasing functionality demand for applications such as powertrain, advanced driver assistance, and autonomous driving. At the same time, semiconductor companies are required to deliver ISO 26262 certification for their products to customers. This combination is expected to increase verification efforts by a factor of two to three. Synopsys’ unified functional safety solution provides technologies to bridge the current productivity gaps by delivering a comprehensive FMEA/FMEDA and fault classification automation solution using a unified fault definition and database with the fastest verification engines. Synopsys also provides tool certification and services to accelerate planning, development, and work product generation for assessors and customers.

In addition to the VC Functional Safety Manager, automation tool delivering the highest productivity through a FMEA/FMEDA and unified fault campaign process, there is the Synopsys TestMAX FuSa, used to perform early functional safety analysis at RTL- or gate-level and identify candidates for TMR and DCLS redundancy.

The Z01X fault simulator is for fast and proven digital fault simulation and the VC Formal FuSa app accelerates fault classification using formal filtering.

Synopsys TestMax CustomFault for analogue and mixed-signal fault simulation provides full-chip functional safety and test coverage analysis and ZeBu Server is claimed to be the industry’s fastest emulator, to perform fault emulation for long software-rich tests.

For debug, planning and coverage there is Verdi Fault Analysis and Certitude functional qualification demonstrates verification flow robustness in support of ISO 26262 Part 8-9 assessments.

The Synopsys Unified Functional Safety Verification Solution and VC Functional Safety Manager are available today for select customer engagements.

http://www.synopsys.com

Adlink Edge IoT software enables industrial customers to access AI and drive real time decision making at the edge, says the company, adding that this optimises operational efficiency

Adlink Edge can quickly and securely connect, stream and control operational data – regardless of what industrial equipment, systems, databases or cloud platforms are already used, says the company. Lawrence Ross, general manager of Software & Solutions at Adlink explained: “Using that data our end-to-end industrial IoT solution enables rapid, real time intelligent decision-making empowered by AI, analytics tools and machine learning . . .  partners and customers can quickly find and use the data . . . whether their objectives are optimising efficiency, predictive maintenance or identifying new business models.”

Target applications are automating warehouse logistics with smart scanning, enabling predictive maintenance, optimising efficiency with machine condition monitoring, machine vision and machine learning, enabling automation and reducing time to market, reducing downtime and optimising efficiency and enabling smart remote monitoring.

No programming is necessary, so Adlink can quickly connect previously unconnected operational equipment, sensors and devices. By tapping into native communication protocols, data can be captured and streamed at the edge. From the edge, this data can then be streamed securely between devices – databases and to the cloud, enabling analysis and easy visualisation to inform decisions and optimise operations in real time.

Adlink Edge is deployed via the company’s innovative Digital Experiments methodology which can include hardware, software and support elements for easy integration with any existing IT and OT system.

Users are also able to benefit from IoT expertise within Adlink’s ecosystem which includes AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Thingworx, IBM Watson, FogHorn, Intel and SAS.

Adlink Edge is built upon the Adlink Data River which simplifies complex data network programming and enables data to flow freely, but securely, to and from any cloud analytic platform database and between devices, databases and the cloud.

The Adlink Data River is trusted within the military and aerospace industries to deliver mission critical data securely in real time, Adlink notes.

ADLINK Edge™ also includes the Adlink Marketplace containing apps which are connectors enabling third party services to translate between devices and applications, or devices and peer devices.  Also integrated is the Adlink Profile Builder tool which helps users configure and deploy all the apps to communicate with end-points, devices or applications into the platform deployed across a customer’s ecosystem.

https://www.adlinktech.com