This course provides an overview of Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and its crucial role in ensuring robust and reliable designs, particularly in safety-critical applications. We'll begin by defining FMEA and exploring the formal verification process, including methods like Assertion-Based Verification and Formal Property Verification. You'll learn how to identify potential failure modes, perform safety analyses, estimate failure rates, and compute safety metrics. Furthermore, we will delve into Design FMEA (DFMEA), covering the main steps, ranking systems, and risk priority number (RPN) calculation with examples. Finally, we'll discuss design improvements like fault tolerance and redundancy, and how FMEA results feed into quantitative safety analysis, including a brief overview of ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 standards.
Estimated Course Duration: 4