Best-in-Class Safety-Ready Solutions to Accelerate Time to Market

Arm solutions are developed with a โ€œsafety firstโ€ mindset. Our safety-ready AE products include best-in-class safety mechanisms embedded in the design, a comprehensive safety package, and a support structure that enables our partners to speed up system development and stay ahead in the automotive market.

 

Arm safety-ready solutions support a wide range of technologies developed by our world-leading partner ecosystem for the automotive industry. Arm delivers safety-certified IP, software test libraries, software development kits, tools, operating systems, and compilers to aid the seamless integration of safety solutions into the customer-specific design.

Armโ€™s Unrivalled Commitment to Safety

As IoT and automotive markets become more autonomous and require more complex computing workloads due to the rise of software-defined vehicles, industry 4.0, and the next generation of robots, safety-critical computation is an essential consideration.

We provide high-performance safety-capable products to the IoT and automotive industries through our leadership in functional safety technologies across real-time systems, lock step, hybrid mode, and software test libraries. This enables our partners to develop possible systems, products, and features for safe compute solutions.

Designing for Functional Safety with Arm

To help our partners enable functional safety, Arm offers a wide range of IP, tools, and support.

Information for Compliance

Includes evidence of external certification, allowing more time to focus on integrating Arm functional safety IP at a system level. 

Robust Functional Safety Process

Systematic approach to product safety design and verification activities based on ISO26262 and V model-based approach.

Supporting Functional Safety Documentation

Includes comprehensive details on specific product safety features, verification, Failure Mode Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA), safety manual, and more.

Shortened Time to Market

Ongoing development of IP, tools, and test libraries that help reduce time to market and meet industry assessment standards. 

Arm Functional Safety Partners

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Functional safety and safety certification are key concerns for everyone in the integrated circuit (IC) supply chain. If you have any questions about functional safety for Arm-based devices, talk to an Arm expert.

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The Arm Safety Ready Portfolio

The comprehensive Arm Safety Ready portfolio is developed through the application of a well-defined process combined with safety tools and software components for faster than ever safety development. Arm strives to provide best-in-class documentation and certify our product portfolio with independent assessment teams to deliver the Arm Safety Ready strategy.


The Arm Safety Ready Portfolio


Arm offer products, tools, platforms, and software to enable functional safety, thereby accelerating time to market for deploying these safety-critical applications.

Development tools include Software Test Libraries (STL), Functional Safety Run-Time System (FuSa RTS) and Arm Compiler for Embedded FuSa


Key:

๐Ÿ”ต Arm Compiler for Embedded FuSa 

๐ŸŸ  Arm Run-Time System for Functional Safety

Arm Safety Ready IP 

Arm IP Software Test Library
support
Level of Functional
Safety support
Tools and Software
support
Processor available in
Arm Flexible Access*
Cortex-A78AE

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A78C

 

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A78

 

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A76AE  

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A76  

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A75  

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A72

Available in 2023

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A65AE  

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A65  

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A57  

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A55

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

 
Cortex-A53

โœ”

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-A35  

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-A34  

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-A32  

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-R52+

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-R52

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-R5

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-M85

Available in 2024

Extended

 

 

Cortex-M55

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-M33

โœ”

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-M23  

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต

โœ”

Cortex-M7  

Extended

๐Ÿ”ต๐ŸŸ 

โœ”

Cortex-M4

โœ”

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต๐ŸŸ 

โœ”

Cortex-M3

โœ”

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต๐ŸŸ 

โœ”

Cortex-M0+

โœ”

Standard

๐Ÿ”ต๐ŸŸ 

โœ”

Mali-G78AE

N/A

Extended

   
Mali-C78AE

N/A

Extended

   
Mali-C71AE

N/A

Extended

   
GIC-600AE

N/A

Extended

   
MMU-600AE

N/A

Extended

   
CMN-600AE

N/A

Extended

   

* Selected IP is available in Arm Flexible Access.
* Extended portfolio refers to products assessed by independent third-party functional safety assessment bodies.

Safety Resources

State of the Art Software Test Libraries (STL) and ASIL B: Truths, Myths, and Guidance

Learn more about the internationally agreed standards that are in place to help ensure systems achieve the required levels of reliability and safety integrity.

Safety-Critical Graphics with CoreAVI

Assure functionally safe reliable displays for transportation, robotics, aerospace and industrial use cases through proven system design and certification techniques.

Embedded Software for Safety with OpenSynergy

Learn how to integrate several functionalities with different safety requirements on a single SoC for automotive, avionics, railway and agricultural applications.

Embedded Safety with Green Hills Software

Reduce program risk and time-to-safety with Green Hills Softwareโ€™s solutions to achieve the highest levels of safety for avionics, railway and automotive standards.