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According to ISO 26262, ASIL decomposition is the breakdown of a top level safety requirement derived from safety goal into redundant safety requirements with sufficient independence to achieve the safety goal independently. The usage of decomposition enables the opportunity to reduce the ASIL rating of the decomposed safety requirements of a safety goal. To apply decomposition, the decomposed safety requirements should be allocated to sufficiently independent architectural elements. If the redundant/decomposed safety requirements cannot be allocated to sufficiently independent architectural elements, then these redundant safety requirements inherit the initial ASIL of the safety goal. ASIL decomposition can be applied to the functional, technical, hardware or software safety requirements of the item.

In recent years the automotive companies are developing their self-driving technology very rapidly. Most of them want to launch their self-driving vehicles with SAE level 4 at the beginning of 2020. The main goal of the development of self-driving cars is to reduce accidents caused by driver errors. But there are some technological challenges to solve such as increasing of the safety and availability in order to get the acceptance from the customers. The purpose of this research is to investigate the possible fail-operational safety architectures for both conventional systems as powertrain and the entire ADAS processing chain.

Safety is becoming more and more important with the ever increasing level of safety related E/E Systems built into the cars. Increasing functionality of vehicle systems through electrification of power train and autonomous driving leads to complexity in designing system, hardware, software and safety architecture. The application of multicore processors in the automotive industry is becoming necessary because of the needs for more processing power, more memory and higher safety requirements. Therefore it is necessary to investigate the safety solutions particularly for Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL-D) Systems. This brings additional challenges because of additional requirements of ISO 26262 for ASIL-D safety concepts. This paper presents an approach for model-based “dependent failure analysis” which is required from ISO 26262 for ASIL-D safety concepts with decomposition approach.