IEEE Draft Standard for Functional Safety Data Format for Interoperability within the Dependability Lifecycle

A dependability lifecycle of products with focus on interoperable activities related to functional safety and its interactions with reliability, security, operational safety and time determinism are defined in this standard. The standard also describes methods, description languages, data models, and database schema that have been identified as necessary or critical, to enable the exchange/interoperability of data across all steps of the lifecycle encompassing activities executed at intellectual property (IP), system-on-chip (SoC), system and item levels, in a way that allows integration in different application domains such as automotive, industrial, medical and avionics safety critical systems.