2 Functional Safety Design Life Cycle

For designing any functional safety compliant system, it is recommended to follow the proposed Functional Safety design life cycle which would aid customers design their FuSa compliant systems safer, faster and more efficiently. The radar sensor systems are used in safety critical applications like anti-lock braking system in a vehicle, vacuum robots, etc making FuSa standard compliance particularly important. The proposed FuSa design life cycle is a typical FuSa system design flow, helps create a reliable FuSa compliant radar sensor system design that meets the targeted End Equipment Requirements (EER). The proposed design flow to create FuSa compliant system comprises of five steps that minimize the risk associated with failures that could cause physical injury or damage to an environment or property.

Figure 2-1 Typical Functional Safety System Design Life Cycle Flow