Overview
This two-day advanced training and workshop presents the information required to perform a quantitative FMEA (FMEDA) according to ISO 26262:2018. Through hands-on exercises, participants progressively build the knowledge and skills needed to conduct an FMEDA before exploring advanced topics informed by real-world FMEDA experience.
Following a workshop format, participants work with an actual automotive circuit design and conduct an FMEDA with support from the instructor. Each participant receives an FMEDA tool for use during and after the training.
The training is provided by SRES automotive functional safety experts with extensive experience supporting OEMs, suppliers, and semiconductor manufacturers.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for professionals responsible for conducting, supporting, or evaluating quantitative hardware safety analyses under ISO 26262. It is particularly relevant for:
- Hardware engineers and developers responsible for automotive electronic systems
- Functional safety engineers conducting or reviewing FMEDAs
- Functional safety managers overseeing hardware safety activities
- Functional safety assessors evaluating quantitative hardware safety analyses
- OEM, supplier, and semiconductor company personnel working with ISO 26262 hardware requirements
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the purpose of safety analyses and the role of FMEDA within ISO 26262
- Understand the fundamental principles and structure of an FMEDA
- Estimate diagnostic coverage for hardware safety mechanisms
- Use an FMEDA template and tool to conduct a quantitative hardware safety analysis
- Identify appropriate sources of failure-in-time (FIT) rates and apply them within an FMEDA
- Understand advanced considerations involving confidence levels, vendor-provided FIT rates, EEC, and ASIL decomposition
- Conduct an FMEDA exercise using an actual automotive circuit design
Agenda
Below you will find an outline of the training course schedule.
- Overview of Safety Analyses: What they are and why they are needed
- FMEDA Basics: Understanding the purpose and structure of an FMEDA
- Diagnostic Coverage: Approaches for estimating diagnostic coverage
- FMEDA Template: How to perform an FMEDA
- FIT Rate Calculations: Identifying and applying appropriate FIT-rate data
- Advanced Topics: Confidence levels, vendor-provided FIT rates, EEC, and the impact of ASIL decomposition
- FMEDA Exercise: Conducting an FMEDA using an actual automotive circuit and the provided FMEDA tool

