Cadence launches comprehensive security solution to accelerate automotive and industrial design certification
Shanghai, China, October 20, 2021 - Cadence Electronics (Cadence, Inc., NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the launch of the Cadence ® Safety Solution safety solution. This new product for safety-critical applications unifies analog and digital safety processes and engines to accelerate ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 certification. The solution includes the new Cadence Midas ™ Safety Platform, which supports Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA), allowing customers to perform FMEDA-driven simulation and analysis of safety-critical semiconductors in advanced automotive, industrial and aerospace applications. Digital verification.
As cutting-edge electronics continue to drive future connectivity and autonomy in industries such as automotive, industrial and aerospace, it is critical to develop semiconductor chips that can meet safety standards. Cadence Safety Solution safety solution includes a new verification tool suite, including Midas Safety Platform, vManager ™ Safety Manager and Xcelium ™ Safety Simulator. At the same time, the solution also includes existing digital design and verification and analog and mixed-signal tools, including Cadence Jasper ™ Functional Safety Verification (FSV) App, Legato ™ Reliability Solution, Specter ® Simulation Platform, Genus Synthesis Solution, and Innovus Implementation System , Modus DFT Software Solution and Conformal Equivalence Checker. The aim is to improve and enable all aspects of process automation, trust and productivity requirements in compliance with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262.
“The development of semiconductor chips for automotive applications presents a number of challenges throughout the supply chain, including achieving the stringent safety certifications required to comply with the ISO 26262 standard,” said Paul Cunningham, vice president and general manager of the Systems and Verification Group at Cadence. "With the new Cadence Safety Solution, customers can use the Midas Safety Platform, which is fully integrated with the Cadence design and verification process, including vManager Safety Manager, Xcelium Safety Simulator, Jasper FSV App, Genus Synthesis Solution and Specter Simulation Platform, to Increase productivity and accelerate security compliance. ”
Cadence Safety Solution includes processes and engines enhanced for advanced safety design and verification. The solution includes:
FMEDA Management Tool
The new Midas Safety Platform supports architectural design exploration in the early stages of functional safety and uses existing chip native design data to conduct effective and accurate safety analysis. The platform is a unified solution across Cadence products, and its modular architecture can support an embedded fully automated integrated process model or can be used independently.
Fault injection simulation tools
The new Xcelium Safety Simulator leverages Cadence's leading serial and concurrent fault injection simulation technology to drive the highest performance safety analysis. The simulator's machine learning algorithm, coupled with the optimization of formal verification technology, greatly accelerates the overall throughput of the verification process.
Failure project management
The new vManager Safety Manager provides functional and safety verification management integrated into a unified system for managing verification projects for all Cadence engines. By leveraging vManager Safety Manager to coordinate fault coverage between Jasper FSV App and Xcelium Safety Simulator, customers can reduce turnaround time for safety verification activities by 3x. In addition, the vManager Verification Management platform provides customers with connectivity for requirements traceability, while vManager Safety Manager can handle safety verification in both analog and digital domains and automatically report required safety documentation.
Formal verification tools
Jasper FSV App applies industry-leading formal verification technology to fault analysis, which can reduce the fault simulation list to up to 30% to improve the overall performance of safety verification.
Automated functional safety process tools for analog circuits
Safety Solution integrates Specter Simulation Platform and Legato Reliability Solution, which can automatically start fault simulations for different failure modes of analog and hybrid circuits, generate functional safety diagnosis coverage reports, and back-mark them to Midas Safety Platform to accelerate the functional safety process. convergence.
Automated security mechanism insertion, optimization and verification tools
The Cadence Safety Solution safety solution integrates Genus synthesis tools, Innovus Implementation System and Conformal Equivalence Checker, and can insert safety mechanisms (such as TMR (Triple Modular Redundancy) and DCLS (dual-core lock-step) dual-core lock-step) into the digital logic implementation process. Safety Island), enabling customers to meet safety requirements while optimizing power, performance and area goals.
“As automation technology develops in the functional safety field, standardization (of an industry-unified design process) proposed by organizations such as the Accellera Systems Initiative and IEEE has become very important.” Alessandra Nardi, senior director of engineering at Cadence, said , “The Accellera Functional Safety Working Group is working on Defining a standard language for capturing and exchanging functional safety data will greatly benefit interoperability and traceability. Cadence is contributing to the Accellera Functional Safety Working Group and supporting the development of standards such as IEEE P2851.”
Cadence Safety Solution Safety solution supports Cadence Intelligent System Design (Intelligent System Design ™ ) strategy, which aims to achieve SoC design excellence through best-in-class tools and processes. To learn more about Cadence Safety Solution, please visit:
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Customer Reviews
Suraj Gajendra, Senior Director of Technology Strategy , Automotive and IoT Business
"Functional safety is not only becoming more and more important in the design of modern automobiles, but also has always been crucial for industrial and aerospace applications with high reliability requirements. The new Cadence Safety Solution safety solution helps improve the design and operation of various safety-related applications. The efficiency of verification reflects the spirit of Arm Functional Safety Partnership Program to provide customers with reliable and integrated solutions.”
Ori Katz, Director of VLSI and Security Manager at Hailo Corporation
“For automotive applications, ASIL-B processes and safety architecture are key requirements for us to develop advanced AI processors. The Cadence Safety Solution safety solution helps us achieve this goal, which helps us make early predictions of safety indicators based on the original design , thereby enabling proper planning of safety mechanisms.”
Yurii Toporov, design engineer at Melexis
“In our automotive SoC functional safety development process, to meet the metrics required for ISO-26262 certification, we need to run simulated fault simulations and customize rules for fault optimization distribution, sample set size, monitoring and use of safety standards. We use the Cadence Legato Reliability Solution to inject faults into our analog designs, run fault simulations, and incorporate the results into our safety metrics. The solution integrates well with the Virtuoso platform, allowing us to reuse simulation platforms and simulation environment setups. With this solution, we are able to meet ISO-26262 safety requirements with the required accuracy and flexibility and achieve high productivity.”
Franck Roche, Director of Architecture, Technical Support, Applications and Tools, Microcontroller Division, STMicroelectronics
"Simulating random faults in functional safety verification is a major challenge in industrial applications. Modeling a wide variety of safety mechanisms significantly increases the complexity and requires reliable and flexible simulation tools. In process automation, turnaround time optimization In terms of quality of results, Cadence security solutions expand the existing Cadence verification suite and help us achieve IEC 61508 certification faster.”
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