Abstract

Functional safety standards specifies the requirements of implementation of safety in a system and helps with outlining safety goals to be met by that system. System designs that include functional safety must not only have lower risk from improper operation, but detect faults and minimize their impact. With more autonomy in automotive and industrial systems, stringent functional safety requirements are mandated to minimize equipment failure and human injury resulting from systematic and random failures. Comprehensive Safety Standards like ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 outline and define the process, artifacts and compliances demanded by variety of applications across automotive and industrial domain, respectively.

Safety is an integral part of TI's mmWave Radar sensor products and they enable the customers to meet stringent and critical safety certifications for their applications; easily and comprehensively. For ex., with AWR2944 Single Chip mmWave sensor, TI offers high performance coupled with functional safety enablers to help customers design, certify and deliver safety compliant radar solutions to the automotive market.

This Design Guide will walk through various steps typically involved in developing a Functional Safety Compliant System design. Corner radar of a car and intelligent robot sensing system are used as examples of a system design. This document also talks about various functional safety artifacts essentially needed for the Functional Safety Compliant certification of Applications .