Jetson Safety Extension

Achieve functional safety along with highest AI performance using NVIDIA Jetson

Functional safety is about implementing protection functions to deal with the risk of system malfunctions. Functional safety is important in multiple applications like manufacturing, agriculture, robotics, construction, medical, avionics and others, to protect people, property and environment from unexpected or abnormal behavior of the system.

NVIDIA Jetsons approach to Functional Safety is to give access to the hardware error diagnostics foundation that can be used in the context of safety-related system design. Jetson Safety Extension Package (JSEP) provides error diagnostic and error reporting framework for implementing safety functions and achieving functional safety standard compliance. In addition, JSEP includes various documentation and guidance from NVIDIA safety experts to ease the functional safety process.

Address IEC 61508 and ISO 13849 functional safety standards in combination with the support provided by Jetson Safety Extension Package.


Jetson Modules Designed For Safety

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial module includes the Xavier SOC which is TUV SUD assessed for meeting all applicable requirements for ISO 26262. The module also includes various safety extensions built -in:

  • Safety Cluster Engine (SCE), a dedicated ARM Cortex R5F lock-step subsystem for integrated fault detection.
  • In-System-Test (IST), LBIST (Logic Built In Self Test) & MBIST (Memory Built In Self Test) for detecting permanent and latent failures.
  • Hardware Safety Manager (HSM) and Error Collator (EC) for monitoring and reporting error signals.
  • Support for adding external safety MCU
  • DRAM & GPU ECC (Error-Correcting Code)*
  • SEC (Single Error Correction), DED(Double Error Detection) and Parity protection for each IP*
  • ARM CCPLEX RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability)*
  • Temperature, Clock and Voltage monitoring*

*Feature is enabled by Jetson Linux and does not require JSEP

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Jetson Safety Extension Package (JSEP)

Jetson Safety Extension Package provides error diagnostic and error reporting framework for implementing safety functions and concepts to achieve functional safety standard compliance.

Features:

Safety Documents

JSEP includes various documentations and guidance from NVIDIA safety experts to ease the functional safety process.


Available Under NDA

Safety Document Content
Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial in Safety-Related Systems Application Note
  • Type of support provided with respect to systematic failures and hardware random failures
  • Summary description of Safety Extension Documentation provided with JSEP
  • ISO 13849 safety architecture examples
  • Change impact analysis between ISO 26262 and ISO 13849 / IEC 61508
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Available Under License

Safety Extension Document Content
Xavier Safety Extension Manual
  • Detailed description of hardware diagnostics, with related assumption of use for System Implementer
  • Error Reporting Strategy
  • Support for Freedom from Interference
Xavier FMEDA & User Guide
  • Detailed Failure Modes Effects Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA), with the list of failure modes, related faults and potential errors, and the failure rate details for both permanent and transient fault models
  • User guide that explains NVIDIA’s approach to FMEDA
Xavier SOC Assessment Report Summary
  • Technical Summary Report by the accredited certification body TUV SuD Rail for the testing of the SEooC Xavier according ISO 26262.
TUV Rheinland concept report on Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial in Safety-Related Systems Application Note (in progress)
  • Concept Report by the accredited certification body TUV Rheinland on Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial in Safety-Related Systems Application Note, including review of change impact analysis between ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 as provided in the Application Note.

Jetson Safety Extension Package which includes software and safety documentations is available for purchase from our distribution partners. Contact us to get started Link