Case Study
Tuesday, December 09
09:45 AM - 10:10 AM
Live in Dearborn, Michigan
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The growing reliance on open-source platforms in automotive systems brings new challenges for ensuring functional safety, especially as high-performance processors become central to safety-critical applications. This presentation explores how safety goals can still be achieved when using open-source operating systems in complex automotive architectures. It highlights practical approaches such as system partitioning, layered supervision, and architectural safeguards that help meet safety standards without compromising performance or flexibility. Attendees will gain a forward-looking perspective on how the industry can evolve safety frameworks to support innovation, openness, and compliance in next-generation vehicle platforms.
In this presentation, you will learn:
Rohitaswa Bhattacharya is a Technical Director at NXP, overseeing system architecture with a focus on functional safety. Based in Austin, Texas, he brings over two decades of experience across product architecture, design, and safety management for high-performance SoCs and mixed-signal ICs. He serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE Functional Safety Standards Committee (FSSC) and is the Functional Safety Technology Pillar for NXP's Secured Connected Edge business, driving strategic safety initiatives. He is also expanding his knowledge in Industrial Functional Safety, deepening his understanding of safety-critical applications across broader domains.
The Pop in Your Job:
I love transforming complex silicon and system level safety challenges into elegant, scalable architectures that make real products possible. Watching those designs enable intuitive cars, push toward zero accident driving, unlock autonomous vehicles and advanced robotics, and materially reshape how we live is what motivates me every day!