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A key challenge for complex semiconductor chips is to pass safety and reliability assessments for application in safety and mission-critical systems. Safety standards, such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, ARP4761, EN 50126 and others, have identified failure mode, effects and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA) as the state-of-the-art method to assess and quantify the failure characteristics of an integrated circuit (IC).

With the advent of ISO/PAS 19451 (2016) and the corresponding ISO 26262, Part 11: “Guidelines on application of ISO 26262 to semiconductors” (2018), a detailed approach exists to perform FMEDA in the context of automobile systems.

This technical specification document details how ANSYS medini analyze can be used to meet these requirements for semiconductors.

With ever-shortening product life cycles, semiconductor and electronics companies face incredible pressure to innovate, quickly and consistently. The strategic application of engineering simulation — in which products are designed and validated in a virtual environment — is separating the leaders from the followers. ANSYS offers best-in-class electromagnetics capabilities, along with the solvers you need to conduct structural, thermal and fluid dynamics analyses for innovative and optimal design. By analyzing performance at the component level — as well as at the system level via multiple physics solvers — electronics engineers can have the highest-possible confidence that products will perform as expected in the real world.