Design & verification of automotive SoC firmware

Increasing complexity and functionality of automotive SoCs (Systems-on-Chip) leads to a growing part of functionality implemented in firmware. Requirements for short-time-to-market and extensive verification due to safety-critical environments requires firmware development and verification to happen concurrent with hardware development, which is challenging in traditional hardware-centric SoC flows. We present in this paper a set of different techniques part of Infineon´s ISO 26262 flow for firmware development, which tackle these challenges and enable us to align firmware development to the same time line as the remaining SoC development.