Functional safety - SPICE for professionals?

Abstract

The paper describes a possible way how to extend an existing process to fulfill the demands of Functional Safety from a process point of view. A systematic proceeding shall assure that the system under development reaches a sufficient small residual risk before it goes on to series production. Based on the existing company process at Continental several aspects will be scrutinized. In the end you will have a good overview of the similarities and differences of SPICE and Functional Safety and a first idea how to improve your processes to proceed on a safe way. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.