IEEE P2851.1

New IEEE Standard - Active - Draft.
This standard defines a method of seamlessly exchanging functional safety and reliability related information in a technology independent manner. The standard helps enabling interoperability between tools used by functional safety and reliability engineers at the same or different levels of object abstraction. Hence, the standard guides implementers on key methods, description languages, and database topics identified in the IEEE Std 2851-2023. The standard covers topics that relate to base failure rate estimation, vulnerability factors measurements, radiation testing for soft errors, Reliability Availability Serviceability (RAS) system architecture, and prognostics activities. In addition, this standard defines an alignment flow of functional safety and reliability in the dependability lifecycle context, as described in IEEE Std 2851-2023.

This standard defines a method of seamlessly exchanging functional safety and reliability related information in a technology independent manner. Therefore, the standard helps to enable interoperability between tools used by functional safety and reliability engineers at the same or different levels of object abstraction. Hence, the standard guides implementers on key methods, description languages, and database topics identified in the IEEE Std 2851-2023. The standard covers topics that relate to radiation testing for soft errors, vulnerability factors measurements, base failure rate estimation, Reliability Availability Serviceability (RAS) system architecture, and prognostics activities. In addition, this standard defines an alignment flow of functional safety and reliability in the dependability lifecycle context, as described in IEEE Std 2851-2023.
At different levels of supply chains, companies struggle with many different types of methods and description languages for the exchange of functional safety and reliability information. Therefore, the purpose of this standard is to enable a seamless exchange of data and interoperability between functional safety and reliability engineering activities at the same or different levels of object abstraction.