Safety-critical vehicle software, from hazard analysis to production.
Unatech engineers functional safety, software-defined vehicle architecture and embedded software for automakers and their suppliers. Our engineers teach the standards to industry and apply them on production programs. We also build our own tools for the work: SST and the SST Runtime.
We teach ISO 26262. We also ship it.
Plenty of firms can recite the standard. Fewer have carried a safety concept from HARA to the hardware-software interface on a real program, against a real gate date, with a silicon vendor's safety manual open on the desk.
That is the work we do. The same engineers who teach functional safety, AUTOSAR and cybersecurity to industry professionals write the safety concepts, architectures and safety analyses our clients take into production. You get people who know what an assessor will ask and what the software can actually do.
- Six years teaching TÜV NORD's ISO 26262 certification course
- Professional courses at Oakland University in ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, cybersecurity and SDV
- Safety work across ISO 26262 Parts 2 to 6, from item definition to software architecture
- Central compute experience down to the silicon safety manual, the hypervisor and the safety microcontroller
- Fixed-price work packages with defined deliverables and bounded iterations
Consulting for the hard parts of vehicle software
Six practices, staffed by senior engineers. We take on defined work packages, lead a program phase end to end, or embed engineers in your team.
Functional safety
ISO 26262 from item definition, HARA and safety concepts through hardware metrics, software architecture and safety analyses.
Functional safetySDV and E/E architecture
Central compute platforms, hypervisors, safety microcontrollers, camera and display paths, and zonal networks.
SDV architectureAUTOSAR and embedded software
Classic and Adaptive architecture, BSW strategy, multicore partitioning, migrations and supplier selection.
AUTOSARCybersecurity and content protection
ISO/SAE 21434 analysis and concepts, HSM-based security, and protection for premium media content.
CybersecuritySystems engineering and process
Requirements and test baselines, SysML, traceability, ASPICE-aligned workflows and the tooling that keeps them honest.
Systems engineeringControls, diagnostics and OBD
Model-based controls, OBD concepts and certification, IUMPR, and aftertreatment and powertrain diagnostics.
Controls and OBDTools we built because the work needed them
Our consulting runs on our own platform. The same tools are available to your teams.
SST
Requirements, safety analysis and design in one model you own. From that model SST deploys to AUTOSAR, Linux, Android or the SST Runtime, so the runtime decision stays open.
About SST Lean base softwareSST Runtime
Communication, diagnostics and non-volatile memory services, configured straight from the SST model. Designed for ISO 26262 ASIL D, with a certification path under discussion with independent assessment bodies.
About the SST RuntimeRecent programs
Client names stay confidential. The work does not have to.
Safety architecture for an SDV central compute platform
Platform software safety requirements and architecture for a mixed-criticality central computer with a hypervisor and a safety microcontroller.
Commercial vehicles · concept to A-sampleBy-wire braking and steering
Concept architecture, HARA and functional safety concepts, then electronic system design, BSW architecture and HSI.
Passenger vehicles · engineering processSystems engineering workflow for a major automaker
Design boundaries, gold-standard requirement and test artifacts, and the tool automation to run them continuously.
From the silicon up
Safety and architecture decisions live or die on the details of the parts underneath them. These are the platforms, standards and toolchains our engineers work in every week.
We teach what we practise
Our engineers teach ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, cybersecurity and software-defined vehicles in Oakland University's professional courses, and taught TÜV NORD's ISO 26262 certification course for six years. We also sponsor student research at Oakland University.
Bring us the hard part.
A HARA that won't close, a silicon safety manual nobody has mapped, an architecture spread across ten tools. Tell us where your program is stuck and we'll tell you how we would get it moving.