Title: Standard for the Enablement of Functional Safety Interoperability with Reliability

Purpose: At different levels of supply chains, companies struggle with many different types of methods and description languages for the exchange of functional safety and reliability information. Therefore, the purpose of this standard is to enable a seamless exchange of data and interoperability between functional safety and reliability engineering activities at the same or different levels of object abstraction.

Need for this project: The development of safety critical systems is rapidly growing due to the expansion of new applications such as automated driving or autonomous mobile robotics. However, currently, there are no common methods, languages, or formats to exchange data related to safety in the context of reliability (such as modeling for Base Failure Rate, Soft Error Rate, System RAS and Prognostics), while executing lifecycle activities to comply with requirements at different levels of the supply chain. As a result of this gap, companies are struggling with many different types of methods and description languages and are investing valuable time and effort to reconsolidate, compare, integrate, and combine the data. For this reason, the safety critical community is urgently asking for a solution to accelerate the safety engineering process while reducing risks and costs.

Scope: This standard defines a method of seamlessly exchanging functional safety and reliability related information in a technology independent manner. Therefore, the standard helps enabling interoperability between tools used by functional safety and reliability engineers at the same or different levels of object abstraction. Hence, the standard guides implementers on key methods, description languages, and database topics identified in the IEEE Std 2851-2023. The standard covers topics that relate to radiation testing for soft errors, vulnerability factors measurements, base failure rate estimation, Reliability Availability Serviceability (RAS) system architecture, and prognostics activities. In addition, this standard defines an alignment flow of functional safety and reliability in the dependability lifecycle context, as described in IEEE Std 2851-2023.