Safety Support Opens up Automotive, Health and Industrial Markets for ARM Cortex-R5 Processor
22 Janvier 2015 - 1:01AM
Business Wire
ARM has delivered a comprehensive safety document set for the
ARM® Cortex®-R5 processor to drive its adoption in safety-critical
applications. This is a vital step toward the cost-effective
deployment of more technically advanced systems across multiple
sectors including automotive, health and industrial. The Cortex-R5
is the first in a range of ARM processors to come with a safety
document set that semiconductor companies can use to demonstrate
compliance with new functional safety standards.
“Functional safety is increasingly important for many markets,
including automotive, medical and industrial applications, and ARM
is committed to supporting partners wishing to pursue these
rapidly-expanding markets,” said Noel Hurley, general manager,
CPU group, ARM. “The Cortex-R5 processor has a rich set of fault
detection and control features and the addition of generic safety
documentation means developers can now use it across the broadest
range of safety applications. ARM will be supporting other
processors from our diverse product portfolio in a similar
way.”
System developers now have assurance that the Cortex-R5
processor can be used in safety-related applications as the SoC
developers have access to additional information required for
demonstrating functional safety. For automotive applications such
as powertrain and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Cortex
R5-based designs with ISO 26262 enables a reduction in the overall
quantity of components. This results in faster design cycles and
lower manufacturing and overall system costs as well as reduced
power consumption and vehicle emissions.
In addition, industrial safety-related systems need to
demonstrate compliance to the IEC 61508 standard and the Cortex-R5
safety document package supports this qualification. The generic
safety documentation also enables Cortex-R5 to be applied to many
other markets, including medical, which is covered by a broad range
of standards, requiring a generic approach.
Furthermore, the industry-standard ARM Compiler is now TÜV SÜD
certified, allowing for safety-related software development up to
ISO 26262 ASIL D and IEC 61508 SIL 3 without further toolchain
qualification activities. The TÜV certification complements the ARM
Compiler Qualification Kit, which contains the Safety Manual,
Development Process Document, Test Report and Defect Report.
The Cortex-R5 processor is an advanced and cost-effective
real-time processor for many embedded applications and has been
widely adopted by silicon vendors to develop both
application-specific SoCs and general purpose microcontrollers.
Partner Quotes
“Functional safety is a critical must often seen as a cost by
silicon vendors. A perfect fit with the CPU subsystem helps change
this cost into pure benefit,” said Bruno Paucard, CEO, Scaleo chip.
"This is why we’ve been working closely with ARM for years, fine
tuning the close connection between Scaleo’s
SILant® safety technology and the safety features of Cortex-R5
processors embedded into the OLEA
microcontrollers family. We are also complementing
the Scaleo Safety manual with the critical information
provided by ARM through this initiative.”
“We are pleased about ARM’s growing investment in the area of
functional safety as it will greatly enhance and strengthen the
Cortex-R5 processor platform,” said Takeshi Fuse, senior vice
president, automotive MCU BU, Spansion. "We welcome further and
pervasive adoption of Cortex-R5 architecture in the automotive
industry.”
“Functional safety techniques are being applied at increasingly
lower levels of design abstraction. ARM’s approach for functional
safety designs with the Cortex-R5 core will ease the safety
certification burden for our customers in the automotive, health
and industrial markets,” said Norbert Asche, general manager,
safety microcontrollers, Texas Instruments. “Our Hercules™
TMS570LC4x and RM57x microcontrollers (MCUs), based on the ARM
Cortex-R5 core, and our SafeTI™ design packages help designers meet
requirements of industry standard functional safety standards such
as ISO 26262, IEC 61508 and ISO 13849 while managing both
systematic and random failures."
Further Information
The automotive industry in particular is a growing market for
ARM technology as vehicles increasingly use embedded compute
systems to address both safety and fuel efficiency demands from
consumers and legislators. Research firm IC Insights1 forecasts
semiconductor consumption in the automotive sector will grow at
almost 11 percent CAGR until 2018, driven by demand for systems
such as reversing cameras, eCall, chassis control, instrument
cluster processing and other advanced driver assistance
systems.
The Cortex-R5 safety documentation is available now for
licensing and adds to ARM’s support for industrial and automotive
applications where ARM-based SoCs are increasingly used.
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Notes to Editors
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http://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/Automotive-IC-Market-To-Display-Strongest-Growth-Through-2018/
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