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Streamline the ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 certification processes with Functional Safety-Compliant products, documentation, software, and support. Arm® Cortex®-R MCUs are independently assessed and certified by TÜV SÜD to meet a systematic capability up to ASIL D and SIL 3 to help you create automotive and industrial applications requiring functional safety.

Highlights of the Arm Cortex-R functional safety offering include:

  • Device architecture for functional safety
  • Documentation to support customers' safety assessment at the system level
  • Certified software library to implement the safety mechanisms
GUID-12B67202-B1B2-425B-BA07-0BA915AB99CA-low.svg AM263x Safety Mechanisms

Safety mechanisms play a key role in the overall safety of a system by detecting potentially dangerous failures and consequently helping place the system in a safe state. With over 400 built-in safety mechanisms defined and independently assessed by TÜV SÜD for the effectiveness of the MCU, Arm Cortex-R MCUs provide the required diagnostic coverage to meet the hardware integrity of ASIL-B or ASIL-D and SIL-2 or SIL-3 at a component level. Functional safety manuals provide detailed information on the safety mechanisms as well as techniques for achieving non-interference between elements and avoiding dependent failures. This aids customers in the development of compliant systems up to ASIL D and SIL 3. The tunable Failure Modes Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) provides increased flexibility to customize and calculate hardware metrics with features such as package Failures in Time (FIT) estimation, product function tailoring, safety mechanism tailoring, and custom diagnostics allowing customers to tune the FMEDA to their own application-specific needs.

Learn More about Tuning the FMEDA with Video Training: Basics of FMEDA and Intro to Tunable FMEDA

Key Safety Features AM263x AM243x TMS570, RM4x
Hardware Integrity ASIL-D, SIL-3 SIL-2 ASIL-D, SIL-3
Systematic Capability ASIL-D, SIL-3 SIL-3 ASIL-D, SIL-3
Compliant Development Process (ISO 26262 for Auto, or IEC 61508 for Industrial, or both) ASIL-D, SIL-3 SIL-3 ASIL-D, SIL-3
Lockstep ✓ X ✓
Memory Parity ✓ ✓ ✓
Memory ECC ✓ ✓ ✓
Memory BIST ✓ ✓ ✓
Memory Protection Unit ✓ ✓ ✓
Error Signaling Module ✓ ✓ ✓
Windowed watchdog timer with independent clock ✓ ✓ ✓
Firewalls, voltage, temperature, and clock monitors ✓ ✓ ✓
Hardware CRC acceleration ✓ ✓ ✓
Hardware BIST (HWBIST): Permanent fault coverage of > 90% ✓ ✓ ✓
Redundant and independent ADC, PWM Modules ✓ ✓ ✓
Safety Manual: detailed product overview, capabilities and constraints, TI development process, safety elements, and safety diagnostics Request access Coming soon TMS570LSx
RM44x
Certification Automotive
Industrial		 Coming soon TMS570LSx
RM44x
Safety Collateral Description
Development Process Certificate
Hardware | Software		 TÜV SÜD certificate for Functional Safety Hardware Process and Functional Safety Software Development
ARM Cortex-R Safety package By request and NDA required. Package includes the following elements:
  • Technical Report on Random Hardware Capability
  • Technical Report on Systematic Capability
  • FMEDA: A failure mode, effects and diagnostics analysis (FMEDA) is used in the development stage to provide a detailed analysis of different failure modes, the associated effects of failure modes, diagnostics and the impact of any implemented diagnostics or safety mechanisms in terms of diagnostic coverage.
  • Device Concept Assessment
  • Safety Analysis Report (SAR): Contains results of safety analysis according to the targeted functional safety standards.
Software diagnostic library
SDL Certification 		A library of modules and examples demonstrating safety features and mechanisms. Examples include CPU, memory, clocks or watchdogs, HWBIST, and so forth.
MCAL Microcontroller Abstraction Layer (MCAL) – Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) compliant drivers
Compiler qualification kit Compare compiler coverage for customer use cases against coverage of TI compiler release validations
Safety certified RTOS Pre-certified safety Real Time Operating System (RTOS) options including:

Example of Advanced Power Conversion System

System block diagram of the advanced power conversion use case showing the possible interfaces that can be implemented. Data flows to or from peripherals and starts or ends in OCRAM or R5F TCM. Much of the data resides in TCM due to latency requirements.

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More complex AM263x power control use cases will involve partitioning of processing across R5Fs and also make sure that time-critical code and data can fit into TCM. Sensitive latencies for ADC, CMPSS, and PWM transfers must be met.

Other interfaces such as SPI, UART, and I2C can be used for purposes noted in the block diagram. GPIO is heavily used for trip zone outputs and other sensing and control.

TI Distinct Roles and Responsibilities

For more details regarding the roles and responsibilities of TI, certification bodies and system integrators, refer to the following table.

Texas Instruments
 Certification Bodies
(ex. TÜV SÜD)		 System Integrator
or Customer
  • Delivers hardware and software products in compliance with our functional safety processes
  • Maintains hardware and software products
  • Supports customer's system-level, functional-safety certification
  • Certifies our functional safety-compliant hardware and software development processes
  • Certifies selected products and assesses sub-systems and reference design
  • Completes system-level hazard analysis and risk analysis (HARA)
  • Determines system-level, functional-safety requirements, safe state, DTI, FTTI, FDTI, PST
  • Builds and certifies functional safety systems