September 20, 2012, Seoul, Korea – Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL, www.freescale.com ) supports automotive electronics suppliers in more easily developing functional safety systems compliant with the ISO 26262 standard. Freescale announced today that its Qorivva MPC5643L 32-bit MCU (microcontroller) has become the industry's first semiconductor product to receive this certification, having been certified by the independent accredited evaluation provider Exida.

The Power Architecture®-based Qorivva MPC5643L 32-bit MCU is designed for use in a wide range of automotive applications requiring a high level of automotive safety integrity, including electric power steering, active suspension, anti-lock braking systems, and radar-based ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). This product is suitable for use at all ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Levels), including the most stringent level, ASIL D.

The MPC5643L MCU is part of the Freescale SafeAssure program, which provides design support for functional safety applications, including training, safety resources, and technical support, along with a wide set of MCU, sensor, and analog IC solutions.

"Ray Cornyn, Senior Vice President of Freescale's Automotive MCU business unit, stated, 'Freescale boasts a long history of successfully supplying innovative MCUs to the automotive market.' He added, 'Freescale's SafeAssure program supports OEMs in the automotive and industrial sectors in streamlining the processes and saving time required to achieve system compliance with functional safety standards.'" “The certification of the Freescale Qorivva MCU by Exida is further evidence of Freescale’s commitment to alleviating customers’ efforts to develop functionally safe battlefield systems,” he said.

According to ISO, functional safety is achieved when there is no undue risk resulting from risk factors caused by the failure of electrical/electronic systems. ISO 26262 aims for a complete automotive system and consists of 10 sections, including provisions on hardware, software, integration between the two, development, and production processes. Since the MPC5643L MCU is a component of such a system, Exida carefully tailored the scope of evaluation to all ISO 26262 provisions identified as applicable to the MCU. The MPC5643L has been successfully evaluated and certified for the relevant parts of the ISO 26262 standard for MCUs.

As a result, the ISO 26262 functional safety assessment certificate issued by exida, 'FREESCALE 1108067 P0026 C001', can be found in the Safety Automation Element List on the exida website.
"The Freescale MPC5643L is the first microcontroller to receive official ISO 26262 certification for ASIL D functional safety capability from an independent third-party accredited certification body," said Rainer Faller, Senior Partner at Exida. "This certification was issued because the product design, application development, and production processes were successfully evaluated against all ISO 26262 requirements and work product definitions identified as applicable to this microcontroller component. Freescale has achieved outstanding results with this product."

The Qorivva MPC5643L MCU is included in Freescale’s product life extension program and is guaranteed to be supplied for at least 15 years. Contract terms and a list of available products can be found at freescale.com/productlongevity.

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Supply situation
The Qorivva MPC5643L MCU is currently available from Freescale. Further details can be found here.

Freescale SafeAssure Program: Functional Safety, Simplification
The Freescale SafeAssure Functional Safety Program is designed to help system manufacturers more easily achieve compliance with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508. The program consists of a rich set of support resources centered around Freescale hardware and software solutions optimally designed to support functional safety implementation. For more information, visit www.freescale.com/SafeAssure .

ISO 26262 is designed to apply to safety-related systems installed in series production passenger cars that include one or more electrical and/or electronic systems and have a gross vehicle weight of up to 3,500 kg (7,700 lbs). Further details can be found at www.iso.org .