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1. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
on
ISO 26262 Functional Safety

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3. FAQs | ISO 26262 Functional Safety
Q1. What value can your team deliver for ISO 26262 based Functional Safety
Consulting Services?
Ans. Our journey of more than a decade in Automotive Industry has been full
of learning and opportunities to develop a strong domain expertise.
Leveraging these, our Functional Safety consultants partner with you to
deliver the following value-added services:
• Understanding Functional Safety framework in letter and spirit – involves
working with cross-functional teams to build the foundation of Functional
Safety culture
• Safety planning exercise as a part of ISO26262 compliant safety lifecycle
• End-to-end technical consulting and support in the development of a well-
defined functional safety roadmap
• Checklists, tools, templates and guidelines evaluation and identification.
Q2. Can you highlight the services offered under the ISO 26262 compliant
Functional Safety analysis?
Ans. After the completion of the Functional Safety workshops, we will
conduct an in-depth analysis of your hardware and software components.
This exercise will be performed in partnership with your design and
development teams.
We will focus on achieving the following outcomes during this engagement:
• Hazard & Risk Analysis for ASIL determination, under concept phase safety
analysis
• System level safety analysis
• Safety planning activities
• Hardware and Software safety analysis
• Product and Process review by Functional Safety Consultants
• In addition, we can also engage in delivering a Functional Safety Analysis
based on the current stage of your functional safety journey.

4. FAQs | ISO 26262 Functional Safety
Q3. Do you also offer functional safety training programs or workshops?
Ans. Yes we do. Embitel has designed many ISO 26262 training programs to
suit the requirements of organizations at different stages of their automotive
functional safety journey.
Based on your business requirements, you can collaborate with us for any of
the following trainings schedules:
• 1-day training: ISO 26262 Overview
• 2-days training: Covering the specific concepts in ISO 26262 Safety
Standard
• 5-days training: Detailed ISO 26262 Functional Safety Training
• Both online and onsite mode of functional safety training are available.
Q4. Can you enlist the services offered under design & development of ISO
26262 compliant automotive systems?
Ans. We follow a V-model SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) for
ISO26262 compliant design and development.
Our Functional Safety Project Managers and Embedded Software Developers
will work with your teams to provide the following services:
• Concept Development
• System Requirement Analysis
• Hardware and Software Safety Analysis & Architectural Design
• Design Implementation
• Testing (Unit testing, Integration Testing & Functional Testing (HIL, MIL,
SIL))
• System Integration and Testing
• Functional Safety Assessment and Validation
• Ensuring Compliance for existing work products

5. FAQs | ISO 26262 Functional Safety
Q5. Is it possible for you to provide onsite Functional Safety training and
implementation?
Ans. Yes, we have designed our Functional Safety service offering on an
‘Onsite-Offshore model’. Our automotive team will partner with you to
perform requirement gathering and project analysis, onsite.
Post the analysis, we can decide to go for the ISO 26262 based implementation
service either onsite or offshore, depending on the project scope.
In any instance, where sensitive work products are not supposed to go out of
the customer premise, we will be happy to offer onsite Automotive Functional
Safety services.
Q6. Is there any mandate from ISO 26262 that requires the organizations to
adhere to any Quality Assurance standards?
Ans. Yes, ISO 26262 mandates that the organizations (automotive OEMs and
suppliers) follow some Quality Assurance standards such as ISO/TS 16949 or
ISO 9001 and CMMI.
Q7. Please share some details on the roles and responsibilities of an
organization to ensure Functional Safety
Ans. As an automotive OEM or supplier, your responsibility towards ensuring
functional safety entails:
• Organization-Specific Safety Policies & Rules implementation
• Training the employees to establish Safety Culture in the organization
• Safety anomalies management
• Competence management (Assigning roles based on competence)
• Quality management
• Tailoring and adaptation of the safety lifecycle independent of the project

6. FAQs | ISO 26262 Functional Safety
Q8. We have an under development/ready for production automotive
product. Can you help us ensure ISO 26262 compliance at this stage?
Ans. Yes, we can help you ensure ISO 26262 compliance for existing or under
development product-line as well.
We do it by performing the GAP analysis at several levels- management,
technical and process levels.
GAP analysis helps us in understanding the safety gaps in the product and also
identify the rectification measures to ensure functional safety compliance.
In the end, the compliance report is generated.
Q9. Can Embitel help us in the development of an ASIC level safety
compliance project?
Ans. Yes, Automotive Functional Safety (FuSa) Consultants from Embitel
Technologies can provide all the assistance in the development of ASIC level
safety compliance project.
We will perform the ISO26262 recommended analysis of the SEooC product
(Safety Element out of context) to ensure the safety compliance.
Q10. Is there any similarity between ISO 26262 compliance and other
standard Quality Assurance certification?
Ans. Not exactly. ISO 26262 is essentially a recommendation to ensure
functional safety in automotive software and hardware development.
The main difference lies in the fact that ISO 26262 also provides the technical
guidelines to meet the required safety integrity level for both hardware and
software.
(Please contact us to know more details and success stories on ISO 26262
Functional Safety)

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