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Appendix A
Change impact analysis for other safety
standards
The safety analysis reported in this user manual is carried out according to ISO 26262 safety
norm. In this appendix a change impact analysis with respect to different safety standard is
performed. The following topics are considered for each addressed safety norm:
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Differences in the suggested hardware architecture (architectural categories), and how
to map what is foreseen in the new safety norm on the standard safety
architectures of ISO 26262.
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Differences in the safety integrity level definitions and metrics computation methods,
and how to recompute and judge the safety performances of STM8AF devices
according to the new standard.
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Work products required by the new safety norms, and how to remap or rework if
needed existing ones resulting as output of the ISO 26262 compliance activity.
The safety standard examined within this change impact analysis is the following:
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IEC 61508:1-7 – ed. 2
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IEC: 2010: Functional safety of
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems.
A.1 IEC
61508
The IEC 61508 is the international norm for functional safety of
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic (E/E/PE) safety-related systems.
The ISO 26262 standard is derived from the IEC 61508 standard.
As ISO 26262, the IEC 61508 standard defines four safety integrity levels (SILs), based on
the assessment of the hazard and risk analysis, with SIL1 being the lowest and SIL4 being
the highest.
Despite automotive level of safety integrity (ASIL) defined in ISO 26262 (with a scale from A,
the lowest level, to D, the highest level), comes from its parent standard SIL definition,
there is no direct correlation between IEC 61508 and ISO 26262 ASIL levels as the ASIL in
ISO 26262 is not stated in probabilistic terms while the SIL in IEC 61508 it is.
A correlation matrix between SIL and ASIL values has been empirically identified by TÜV
SÜD and is illustrated in
.