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Modern vehicles are transitioning to centralized, software-defined architectures, introducing fundamental safety challenges that traditional FuSa practices were not designed to address.

This session explores practical approaches to evolving ISO 26262 compliance across distributed, domain, and zonal E/E architectures, using real-world examples to show how functional safety scales with architectural complexity.

What you’ll learn:

  • How E/E architecture evolution changes the nature of functional safety challenges, not just their scale
  • How ISO 26262 methodology adapts across distributed, domain-centralized, and zonal E/E with HPC architectures
  • Practical engineering approaches for fault containment, hardware metrics, dependent failure, power management, and OTA governance in centralized platforms
  • Why the safety principle is invariant, but the implementation must change with each architecture generation
  • How test automation, rollback governance, and living safety cases become safety-critical disciplines in software-defined vehicles

Meet the experts

Ramachandra Vannala

Senior Staff Functional Safety Engineer, Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies