Episode 07: Tool Confidence Level

When using a software tool or compiler in a safety-relevant project, it’s important to be confident in its results — using the ISO 26262 safety standard, we call this reliability the tool confidence level (TCL). In this episode, Oscar explains how TCL classes are determined and how they affect the tool usage, why you wouldn’t want the lowest TCL for your product, and where TCL classification might be more trouble than expected.

To learn about the role of confidence and classes in safety-relevant projects, listen to Episode 03: Classification or Episode 35: Tool Confidence — Revisited, and for an informed look at the effects of the ISO 26262 safety standard, check out our Episode 33: ISO 26262 or Question 01: Did ISO 26262 abolish tool qualification in its second edition?

Your producer and friendly representative of the audience in this episode has been Ivana Kurecic.

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