Semiconductor

Organizations struggle with ensuring compliance with complex safety and security standards and regulations, such as ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO 13849  ISO 21434 UN ECE to reduce increased safety and security risks and causing potential delays in bringing innovative solutions to market.

VerveTronics offers state of art Functional Safety and Device Security Services specifically for the  industry. With deep expertise in the mobility systems we are trusted partner from Safety and Security Risk analysis to start of production,  helping organizations ensure their systems comply with industry standards while delivering innovative, safe, and reliable products.

• Increasing Complexity in Semiconductor Designs: Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) and AI processors have billions of transistors, making functional safety validation complex.
  • Heterogeneous Architectures: Mix of CPU, GPU, AI accelerators, memory on a single chip.
  • Real-Time Safety Requirements: Autonomous vehicles need real-time response within milliseconds.
  • Verification Complexity: Simulating all failure modes and faults is extremely challenging.
• Adapting to Evolving Standards: The automotive industry is governed by stringent functional safety standards such as ISO 26262, IEC 61408, DO-254, ISO-13849 which are continuously evolving. Ensuring that safety processes remain compliant with these standards is challenging for organizations that lack dedicated safety resources. 
• Reliability & Fail-Safe Design  :Semiconductor failures in automotive, aerospace, and industrial applications can lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • Random Hardware Failures: Due to aging, radiation, or material defects.
  • Systematic Failures: Design flaws in circuit layout or software integration.
  • Soft Errors (SEU/SET): Radiation-induced bit flips affecting chip performance.
• Time and Resource Constraints: Semiconductor organizations are often under pressure to bring new products to market quickly, leaving little time for comprehensive safety assessments and implementations. 

Failure to address these challenges can lead to non-compliance, delays, safety incidents, and potential product recalls, impacting brand reputation and financial performance. 

• Deep Expertise in ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO 13849 and ISO 21434: Our team has extensive experience with the safety and security standard, ensuring that semiconductor devices meet the required safety and security integrity levels.
• Deep Expertise in Semiconductor : With specialized experience in semiconductor devices, VerveTronics is well-equipped to manage the safety challenges posed by ADAS and Electrification development.
• Holistic Approach to Safety and Security: We provide comprehensive functional safety services, from early-stage risk assessments to full-scale system validation, covering both hardware and software safety aspects.
• Safety Analysis and Risk Mitigation: We conduct in-depth safety analyses, including Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), to identify and mitigate potential hazards.
• Training and Consulting: VerveTronics offers training and consulting sessions to enhance your team’s knowledge of functional safety and cyber security standards and methodologies, enabling them to manage safety-critical systems more effectively.

• People Knowledge & Competencies: A culture focused with building deep knowledge and competencies across domains and standards.
• Tools & Process Automation: Emphasis on tools to automate process and thus achieve best in class quality through
  • Requirements Management
  • Dev Ops for CI/CD Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery.
  • Traceability
  • Hardware in Loop & Fault Insertion Testing
• Culture of precision, attention to details and excellence through continuous improvement.
• Requirements Engineering: Core competency of Requirement engineering and decomposition considering multifaceted systems engineering approach for architectural components.
• Safety/Security Analysis and Risk Reductions: Carry out thorough failure and threat analysis at various phases with optimum risk reduction techniques.
• Re-usable & Proven in use accelerators: Development and Usage of ready to use, time tested, proven in use accelerators that faced rigorous levels of compliances and testing.

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