Interval Estimations of Software Functional Safety for E/E/PE Safety-Related Systems  
Author Shinji Inoue

 

Co-Author(s) Takaji Fujiwara;  Shigeru Yamada

 

Abstract Among safety-related systems that are responsible for the functional safety of an overall system, the share of E/E/PE safety-related systems with embedded software is expanding. Under that situation, there is necessity to discuss the functional safety for the software installed into the E/E/PE safety-related system, not only for the hardware systems. We discuss quantitative software functional safety assessment methodologies for the software of the E/E/PE safety-related systems, which enable us to conduct simulation-based interval estimations of target failure measures even if the size of software failure data is small by applying a bootstrapping method. Numerical examples for our approaches to be proposed here are also shown to demonstrate our simulation-based interval estimation approaches.

 

Keywords E/E/PE safety-related systems, Functional safety, Interval estimation, Target failure measures, Bootstrapping method
   
    Article #:  RQD2025-15
 

Proceedings of 30th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability & Quality in Design
August 6-8, 2025