Safety-Critical Design Managing Requirements in Your Design Flow D A T A S H E E T FEATURES: ■■ Trace requirements throughout the design process. ■■ Assess and manage the impact of requirement changes. ■■ Link all project documents with design, verification, and implementation tools. ■■ Communicate through visualization and intuitive, automated status reports. BENEFITS ReqTracer TM is an efficient solution for managing requirements traceability and impact analysis across hardware and software project lifecycles. A Best Practice for Project Management The ability to completely trace and manage design requirements from specification through implementation and verification is simply “good project management”. ReqTracer facilitates the deployment of a requirements-driven design flow, while allowing project teams to focus on their implementation and verification work for maximum efficiency. It is only when functionality and verification results fully meet the requirements, that a project is complete and the project team can confidently put the product into production. This flow is beneficial to all projects, but especially needed in safety-critical applications and mandatory for DO-254 and ISO 26262 certification, where product failure could result in injuries or fatalities. ReqTracer links, manages, and tracks requirements from multiple sources throughout the design process. It also provides automated documentation and reports at any stage and manages the impact of requirement changes, resulting in better control and predictability of design schedules and improved overall product quality. ReqTracer in the Process Requirements tracing should be approached proactively throughout the project development process: ■■ Improve overall project quality with automated requirement coverage analysis across multiple engineering disciplines. ■■ Facilitate process improvements and best practices. ■■ Confirm that design requirements have been fully implemented and tested. ■■ Fulfil key regulatory mandates for safety standard compliance. SAFETY-CRITICAL DESIGN Safety-critical design means “the design requirements exactly match the verified implementation”. ReqTracer can provide the proof needed to deliver end products that meet these requirements and automate requirement traceability for DO-254 certification or ISO 26262 compliance. Clear, top-down and bottom-up traceability proves verified requirements, traceability of ECOs, and confirms that changes were fully implemented and validated. Associated reports ensure successful audits

■ Analyze requirement sources in place without a separate database. ■ Automatically filter requirements. For example: only extract safety-related requirements. ■ Support corporate and external standards like DO-254, ■ Connect authored requirements from many databases, file sources, and formats includinq: - IBM® Rational® DOORS® and RequisitePro® - Microsoft® Office, Apache OpenOfficeTM, Adobe® - ASCII, HTML, XML, XMI, CSV, MIF, and bitmap - User requirements, test, and specification documents - RTL, software source code, testbenches, inteqration tests, schematic, synthesis and constraint files...