Functional Safety

Xilinx provides a comprehensive TUV SUD certified design flow solution for our customers to simplify and accelerate certifications based on functional safety specifications across Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Medical and Industrial markets where safety and reliability are key.

Xilinx has decades of proven success and experience across a wide variety of mission-critical industries and applications. Our customers choose our portfolio of FPGAs and SoCs for to enable:

• Configurability and increased performance at lower power
• Integration of complex and complete systems into a single device
• Reliability and long product life time
• Faster time to market

• Design and verification tools certified for use in Functional Safety applications
• Certified Compiler tools
• Functional Safety Certificate and Reports
• Functional Safety Package

• Certified functional safety design methodologies enable integration of safety  and non-safety functions in the same device
• Isolation Design Flow (IDF) and Vivado Isolation Verifier (VIV) / Isolation Verification Tools (IVT) provide a certified methodology to separate areas on a single device. Designs placed into these regions are physically isolated. The areas can be changed at any time without impacting other isolated regions, proven by the VIV/IVT tools (impact analysis)
• Certified Soft Error Mitigation (SEM) IP cores perform Single Event Upset (SEU) detection, correction, and classification for configuration memory. The cores utilize device primitives such as ICAP and FRAME_ECC to clock and observe the Readback CRC feature as part of the SEU detection function. For SEU correction,  the IP cores perform the necessary operations to locate and correct errors. For SEU classification, the IP cores use Xilinx Essential Bits technology to further increase system availability.

The Zynq®-7000 SoC has been reviewed and assessed for on-chip redundancy by TuV Rheinland. This Safety Concept Design study states Xilinx technology can be used to create a single chip solution that will support 2 independent safety channels for SIL3 safety functions referencing IEC61508 Part2 Annex-E.

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