Split’n’Cover: ISO 26262 Hardware Safety Analysis with SystemC

The development of safe hardware is a major concern in automotive applications. The parts 5 and 11 of the ISO 26262 define procedures and methods for the development of hardware to achieve a specific automotive safety integrity level. In this paper, we present a novel methodology that combines the hardware metrics analysis of ISO 26262 with SystemC-based virtual prototyping. To show the applicability of our methodology, we modeled the LPDDR4 memory system of a current state-of-the-art ADAS system and estimated the ASIL level of this system. The new methodology is implemented in SystemC and is provided as open-source.