Cross-discipline traceability
Product requirements need trace links to architecture, firmware, validation plans, defects, and release notes.
Industry Solution
Polarion ALM for Electronics and Semi Conductors
Connect chip, board, firmware, embedded software, verification, quality, and release evidence across fast-moving electronics and semiconductor programs.
The Challenge
Hardware, firmware, and software evolve together.
Electronics and semiconductor programs face parallel changes in requirements, RTL or hardware design, PCB constraints, firmware, test benches, manufacturing quality, and customer variants.
Variant and derivative pressure
Small feature differences across customers and product lines can create uncontrolled requirement and test duplication.
Quality feedback loops
Field issues, manufacturing defects, and verification failures must connect back to requirements and corrective actions.
How Polarion Helps
A digital thread from concept to qualified release.
Polarion brings requirements, verification, defects, risks, and release governance into one lifecycle model.
- Requirement structures for silicon features, board constraints, firmware behavior, and customer specifications.
- Traceability to verification plans, test benches, lab results, quality defects, and release approvals.
- Variant management for product families, derivatives, regional SKUs, and customer-specific builds.
- Integrations with source control, issue trackers, CI/CD, PLM, and test automation pipelines.
- Dashboards for verification coverage, unresolved defects, release risk, and compliance readiness.
Standards Coverage
Flexible enough for electronics compliance and quality programs.
IEC 61508
Functional safety lifecycle traceability for electrical, electronic, and programmable systems.
ISO 26262
Useful for automotive semiconductor and embedded electronics programs that require safety evidence.
IEC 62443
Security requirements, threat mitigations, verification evidence, and product cybersecurity records.
ISO 9001
Quality management evidence for customer requirements, corrective actions, and release governance.
CE / Technical Files
Controlled technical documentation, design evidence, test results, and change history for product releases.
APQP / PPAP
Quality planning and production approval evidence for electronics supplied into automotive and industrial chains.
Need a connected electronics lifecycle?
Radax can help build Polarion templates for requirements, verification, variants, quality workflows, and release dashboards.