Press Release
New ISO/DIS 26262 Standard Published
Robert Bosch GmbH Qualifies ETAS Development Tools
The publication of the new ISO/DIS 26262 draft standard "Road vehicles − Functional
safety" has raised the bar for the development of safety relevant systems in road
vehicles to a point where the resulting level of maturity enables OEMs and ECU
suppliers to adapt their development processes to accommodate the requirements of
the new standard.
In addition to defining the demands on the safety relevant systems in the vehicle,
ISO 26262 provides specifications for the processes, methodology, and tools to be
used in vehicle development. As a first step of qualifying a development in accordance with ISO 26262, the use cases of the deployed software tools are classified
with respect to the development processes in which they are to be deployed.
If the deployment of a given tool bears on the safety of the target system, it will be
qualified in a second step, and/or the development process is augmented by a verification step. Among other aspects, the qualification process verifies the suitability of
tools deployed in manufacturing and pre-calibration of ECU software applications.
At Robert Bosch GmbH, the declared objective is to ensure the consistent application
of the new safety standard in the development of all relevant new products to be
released after its effective date in Q1 of 2011. Accordingly, Robert Bosch GmbH is
already engaged in its ISO 26262 qualification of development tools. With the support
of ETAS, the tools of the ASCET, RTA, and INCA product families − all of them instrumental in software development − will be classified and qualified.
ETAS looks back on many years of experience with development tools for safety
relevant systems. The function development and software development tools are
both successfully deployed in ABS and ESP projects. ETAS was the world's first tool
manufacturer to have its code generators certified to the IEC 61508 standard. ETAS
will support its customers in their ISO 26262 tool qualification and classification
projects with specific product know-how and services.
ETAS Entwicklungs- und
Applikationswerkzeuge für
elektronische Systeme GmbH
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70469 Stuttgart, Germany
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Press and Public Relations:
Anja Krahl
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