ISO 26262 Functional Safety
Approach & Delivery
Subject matter experts delivering end-to-end ISO 26262 safety — from concept to production.
IAST delivers complete ISO 26262 engineering support across safety concept development, technical safety implementation, software integration, and Validation.
- Overall safety management
- Safety management during item development
- Safety management after release for production
- Safety planning and confirmation measures
- Functional safety culture and process compliance
- Project-independent safety assessment
- Item definition
- Initiation of the safety lifecycle
- Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessment (HARA)
- Functional Safety Concept (FSC)
- Safety goals and safe-state definition
- ASIL classification and allocation
- Initiation of product development at the system level
- Specification of technical safety requirements
- System design
- Item integration and testing
- Safety validation
- Functional safety assessment
- Initiation of product development at the hardware level
- Specification of hardware safety requirements
- Hardware design
- Hardware architectural metrics
- Evaluation of random hardware failures
- Hardware integration and testing
- Initiation of product development at the software level
- Specification of software safety requirements
- Software architectural design
- Software unit design and implementation
- Software unit testing
- Software integration and testing
- Software verification
- ASIL tailoring and decomposition
- Criteria for coexistence
- Dependent failure analysis
- Safety analysis activities
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Interfaces within distributed developments
- Overall management of safety requirements
- Configuration management
- Change management
- Verification activities
- Documentation management
- Software and hardware qualification
- Functional safety validation
- Functional safety assessment
- Release for production
- Item integration and testing
- Verification activities
- Safety confirmation reviews
IAST actively supports customers across all key ISO 26262 parts, with clearly defined ownership models — from independent delivery to collaborative co-engineering.
Overall Safety Management
Safety plan, development interface agreement (DIA), safety impact analysis, and overall project safety management.
Concept Phase
Autonomous Driving use-case, Item Definition, HARA, DIA — delivered independently or in collaboration with the customer.
Product Development — System
Autonomous Driving use-case, system architecture design including FSRs and TSRs, SYS.2 and SYS.3 artifacts.
Hardware Safety
HW safety requirements, FMEDA analysis, L3 safe-state simulation as per E-GAS specification.
Product Development — Software
SW safety requirements, memory partitioning, base software safety modules (WDG, VectorOS), SWE.1–SWE.6 deliverables.
Supporting Processes
Tool qualification reports, SW component safety qualification, and supporting process compliance.
Safety Analysis
FTA guideline, FMEA approach definition, DFA guideline, System FMEA, System DFA, System FTA, System FMEDA.
A structured lifecycle framework defining IAST's delivery responsibilities across project phases — from initiation through closure — with clear ownership at every step.
- Safety Impact Analysis
- Safety Plan
- DIA
- Safety Assessment Plan
- HARA
- Item Definition
- Safety Goal
- Functional Safety Concept
- Technical Safety Concept
- System FMEA
- FTA (Concept Validation)
- SW/HW Component List
- Tool List
- FSA0 Assessment
- SW Safety Architecture
- SW Safety Requirements
- SW Unit Design & Impl
- SW Integration & Test
- SYSTEM DFMEA / DFA / FTA
- FMEDA · FSA1 Assessment
- SW Qualification Test
- System Safety Analysis Report
- SW Safety Analysis Report
- Safety Case
- FSA2 Assessment
- External Audit Support
- Maintenance
- Field Defect Analysis
IAST has successfully executed ISO 26262 functional safety programs across Autonomous Driving, Electric Vehicles, and Last Mile Delivery platforms at the highest ASIL integrity levels.
Autonomous Drive for EV Bus
ASIL-D- DIA – Development Interface Agreement
- Safety Plan review
- Item Definition, HARA & FSC review
- System safety requirement review & System FMEA
- SW safety requirement derivation & architecture
- SW FTA & safety verification
- Co-existence of elements analysis
Autonomous Bot — Last Mile Delivery: Fail Safe Design
ASIL-C- DIA, Safety Plan & Safety Case
- Item Definition, HARA & FSC review
- System safety requirement review
- SW safety requirements, FTA, FMEA, DFA
- FMEDA (Part-5)
- SW safety verification & architecture
- Safety Qualification of SW tools (Part-8)
EV Powertrain — Vehicle Motion Control Safety
ASIL-D- Item Definition (Vehicle Motion Controls)
- HARA with ASIL classification
- Functional Safety Concept derivation
- FSRs–TSRs mapping and allocation
- stakeholder & system requirements analysis
- software requirement derivation
Gateway ECU — Vehicle Control Unit Safety
ASIL-B- In-vehicle network (Ethernet) requirements
- Ethernet module software requirements
- BSW system services architecture
- Software implementation & Software integration testing
- Test cases based on Software requirements
- FTA, FMEDA & DFA safety analysis (Part-9)
- Tool qualification & SW component qualification
Body Control Module Safety Integration
ASIL-B- AUTOSAR Classic safety BSW integration
- DEM/DCM diagnostic management
- Watchdog supervision configuration
- Safe-state transition logic implementation
- Memory partitioning & runtime protection
Safety Analysis Guidelines Development
Part 9- FTA Guideline authoring for internal programs
- DFA Guideline definition
- FMEA Approach documentation
- Reusable analysis templates across platforms
Industry-standard tools used across ISO 26262 safety engineering, AUTOSAR integration, safety analysis, and compliance workflows.
Medini Analyze
Functional safety analysis including HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, FTA and ISO 26262 workflow management.
APIS IQRM
Safety analysis — FMEA, FTA, FMEDA, and DFA — with structured guideline execution and report generation.
Polarion ALM
Safety requirements traceability, lifecycle management, FSR–TSR–SWE linkage, and compliance evidence tracking.
Enterprise Architect / Rhapsody / Cameo
System and software safety architecture modelling, SysML-based design, and item definition documentation.
Arbre Analyst
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and reliability analysis for safety-critical system safety analysis programs.
Vector CANoe / CANalyzer
UDS diagnostics validation, network simulation, CAPL automation, and fault injection workflows.
dSPACE HIL
Hardware-in-loop validation, real-time safety testing, and ECU fault behavior verification.
EB tresos / AUTOSAR BSW
AUTOSAR configuration, MCAL integration, DEM/DCM setup, and safety-focused BSW development.
MATLAB Simulink
Model-based development, simulation of safety mechanisms, and MIL/SIL verification workflows.
ISOgraph
Reliability and safety analysis including FMEA, FTA, and FMEDA for hardware-level diagnostic coverage.
DOORS / PTC Integrity
Requirements engineering and ALM for safety-critical projects, supporting ASPICE and ISO 26262 traceability.
Static Analysis Tools
MISRA-C compliance verification, runtime analysis, code quality checks, and safety rule enforcement.
Core engineering strengths that make IAST the right partner for ISO 26262 functional safety development and integration.
End-to-End Safety Lifecycle Support
Complete ISO 26262 lifecycle ownership from Item Definition, HARA, FSC, TSC, implementation, SWE.1–SWE.6 artifacts, validation, and compliance assessment.
AUTOSAR Safety Integration Expertise
Deep expertise in AUTOSAR Classic safety integration, watchdog supervision, SafeMCAL, DEM/DCM diagnostics, VectorOS, and runtime monitoring.
ASIL-D Delivery Capability
Safety-focused ECU software and hardware development aligned to ASIL-A through ASIL-D requirements, including Autonomous Driving use-cases.
Advanced Safety Analysis
HARA, FMEA, FMEDA, DFA, and FTA execution with diagnostic coverage evaluation, and internally authored guideline templates for reuse.
Multi-Domain Platform Experience
Proven delivery across Powertrain, BCM, EV, Autonomous Driving, Gateway ECU, and Last Mile Delivery robot platforms internationally.
Flexible Collaboration Model
Works independently, jointly with the customer, or in a review role depending on ISO 26262 part and project phase — defined through DIA.
TÜV-Certified Safety Team
TÜV Level-1 certified engineers with Level-2 external certification in progress for 2026, backed by bi-weekly safety community knowledge sharing.
Production-Ready Compliance Support
TÜV audit preparation, phased safety assessment (FSA0–FSA2), safety traceability, and complete safety evidence package generation.
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