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This paper provides an overview of the new MISRA publication, Guidelines for Safety Analysis of Vehicle-Based Programmable Systems. It describes a process which needs to be incorporated into a company's or organization's management structure so they can manage safety effectively. The MISRA Safety Process comprises two principal phases: Preliminary Safety Analysis and Detailed Safety Analysis. The former identifies what needs to be done; the latter demonstrates that it has been done correctly.

MIRA is involved in a number of activities which are aimed at integrating electromagnetic modeling techniques into established CAD and CAE strategies used by automotive manufacturers and component suppliers for vehicle design. This paper describes the objectives of the work, the major activities and the progress to date. It includes a review of user requirements identified during earlier work, the results of the validation activities being undertaken and the progress with developing a strategy for integration of electromagnetic modeling into vehicle design processes. The results of a preliminary study into the use of high-performance computing are also reported.

The introduction of drive-by-wire systems into modern vehicles has generated new challenges for the designers of embedded systems. These systems, based primarily on microcontrollers, need to achieve very high levels of reliability and availability, but also have to satisfy the strict cost and packaging constraints of the automotive industry. Advances in VLSI technology have allowed the development of single-chip systems, but have also increased the rate of intermittent and transient faults that come as a result of the continuous shrinkage of the CMOS process feature size. This paper presents a low-cost, fault-tolerant system-on-chip architecture suitable for drive-by-wire and other safety-related applications, based on a triple-modular-redundancy configuration at the processor execution pipeline level.

As the discipline of Functional Safety spreads from its traditional industries such as process and aviation to the automotive sector, this paper - based on the MISRA Safety Analysis Guidelines - describes how a functional safety lifecycle can be applied in a way which is both appropriate for automotive systems and aligned with international standards such as IEC 61508.

MISRA (The Motor Industry Software Reliability Association) develops practical guidance to assist the developers of safety-related systems in the automotive industry and other sectors in implementing safe and reliable systems. This paper presents a short overview of MISRA's ongoing activities, with particular emphasis on guidance being produced in two areas: process measures for safety-related systems engineering, and product measures for safety-related systems development. Subsequent papers in the session give more details on these activities.