Kurt Shuler, Vice President of Marketing at Arteris IP authored this new article on the interpretation of ISO 26262 in today’s Semiconductor Engineering blog:

Learning ISO 26262 -2nd Edition

December 7th, 2020 – By Kurt Shuler

Interpreting the functional safety standard isn’t as simple as just looking at the document.

Ambiguity is a feature, not a bug!

Why? Partly ambiguity. Because what I think is clear, you may not think is clear. And some of this ambiguity is intentional: This is a voluntary (thought widely followed) standard, aiming to preserve flexibility for innovation and differentiation. The committees don’t want to be too prescriptive, which inevitably leads to some ambiguity.

To read the entire SemiEngineering article, please click here:https://semiengineering.com/learning-iso-26262-2nd-edition/