
About this document
UM1915
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1 About
this
document
1.1 Purpose
and
scope
This document is addressed to system designers willing to evaluate the safety of their
solutions. It describes how to use STM8AF microcontrollers in the context of a safety-related
system, specifying the user responsibilities for installation and operation, to reach the desired
safety integrity level.
1.2 Terms
and
abbreviations
Table 1. Terms and abbreviations
Acronym
Definition
AoU
Assumptions to use
ASIL
Automotive safety integrity level
CCF
Common cause failure
COTS
Commercial off-the-shelf
CPU
Central processing unit
CRC
Cyclic redundancy check
DC
Diagnostic coverage
DTI
Diagnostic test interval
FIT
Failure in time
FTTI
Fault tolerant time interval
FMEA
Failure mode effect analysis
FMEDA
Failure mode effect diagnostic analysis
HFT
Hardware fault tolerance
HW
Hardware
INTC
Interrupt controller
LFM
Latent fault metric
MCU
Microcontroller unit
MPF
Multiple point failures
MPFDI
Multiple point fault detection interval
NVIC
Nested vector interrupt controller
PMHF
Probabilistic metric for random hardware failures
QM
Quality management
SFF
Safe failure fraction
SIL
Safety Integrity level
SEooC
Safety element out of context
SPF
Single point fault
SPFM
Single point fault metric
SW
Software