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CUDA Code Verification for Safety-Critical Systems

The only automated tool for NVIDIA's official CUDA C++ Safety Guidelines

A growing part of your software's safety-critical logic runs on GPUs, but traditional verification tools are blind to it.

Axivion is the only solution that makes your GPU-accelerated system safe, auditable, and ready for production.

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Axivion –
The only tool that natively supports and automates NVIDIA's official CUDA C++ Safety Guidelines, delivering what's needed to simplify your compliance audit and enable your product's safety certification.

Build Your NVIDIA CUDA Verification Infrastructure For Functional Safety

40% Faster

CUDA Code Verification

Reduce months of manual reviews to days through automated CUDA development analysis that understands parallel execution, memory patterns, and architectural boundaries.

70-80% Less

Audit Preparation for CUDA Programming

Generate compliance evidence in hours instead of 4 weeks. Continuous documentation for Functional Safety standards, and NVIDIA CUDA guidelines.

 

15% Increase

In CUDA Development
Productivity

Save 2-3 months per developer annually by eliminating manual verification tasks. Your CUDA programming experts build features, not compliance reports.

 

100% Visibility

Complete Coverage of C++ and CUDA Code

The first and only tool for NVIDIA's CUDA C++ Coding Guidelines. Complete visibility across CPU-GPU boundaries where other tools see nothing.

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The Challenge of GPU-accelerated Safety-Critical Systems

CUDA Programming –
Your Biggest Innovation and Biggest Risk in Functional Safety

Your most groundbreaking and innovative software (perception algorithms, sensor fusion, diagnostic AI) run on NVIDIA CUDA. This is your competitive edge.

These are complex safety-critical systems that traditional static analyzers and verification tools can't verify. Your GPU code that runs in these products, covering almost 40% of your entire safety-critical system, goes completely unverified.

What this actually means:

Legal exposure growing daily
Every unverified kernel in production translates into liability risks you are carrying

Innovation moving elsewhere
3-4 weeks to manually verify CUDA code changes equals teams wasting their time in actual developing

Talent walking out
Senior engineers spending almost half of their time on compliance and fixing issues that could be avoided. Your best C++ and CUDA engineers didn't join to be compliance officers

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The Solution Is Verification Infrastructure – Not More Processes

The Structural Control Layer for NVIDIA CUDA Development

Axivion for CUDA isn't another testing tool. It's the governance infrastructure that makes CUDA programming safe in mission-critical systems.

Axivion is the first tool that provides the functional safety verification layer that makes CUDA development both fast and safe.

This is your only automated checker that natively enforces the official NVIDIA CUDA C++ Guidelines to ensure continuous architecture and code verification and compliance. Your safety-critical GPU-accelerated system becomes as managed as everything else.

The measurable difference:

– 40% less manual verification work
– 70% faster compliance documentation
– 15% productivity gain year one


Transform GPU-accelerated code from ungoverned risk into managed capability.

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See How It Works

Watch an interactive demo showing the actual verification process, the key features and functionality. 

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How Modern Organizations Govern NVIDIA CUDA Programming for Safety-Critical Systems

  • 1. Complete Visibility
  • 2. Automated Compliance
  • 3. Developer Productivity Restored
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1. Complete visibility for CUDA Development – Finally

Traditional tools see functions. Axivion sees complex systems.

– NVIDIA CUDA computation understood: Parallel patterns, memory hierarchies, kernel semantics; analyzed as GPU operations, not text

– Real architecture mapped:
C++ and CUDA architecture verification. Actual CPU-GPU data flow versus intended design exposed

– Hidden issues surfaced:
Race conditions and boundary violations accumulating for years become visible


CUDA code risk detection:
Surfaces race conditions, memory violations, and architectural drift that have been accumulating in your CUDA development for years

Key insight: Most teams discover critical issues in their system within hours of their first scan; issues that testing missed and reviews overlooked.

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2. Automated Compliance that Scales with Your NVIDIA CUDA Programming Ambition

Manual verification consumes 3-4 weeks. Automated compliance work in every commit.

– Native Checker for NVIDIA CUDA Guidelines: First and most complete automated tool with native checker built for NVIDIA CUDA C++ Guidelines for Effective Safety-Critical Programming

– Extended standards for C++ and CUDA:
MISRA C++:2023 adapted for CUDA, AUTOSAR C++14, CERT, and other rule sets.


Continuous documentation: Audit evidence generated automatically, maintaining compliance trail without manual effort

 

Time returned: 70-80% reduction in audit preparation. From 3-4 weeks of manual documentation to automated proof generated in hours.

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3. Developer Productivity Restored

Stop wasting expertise on repetitive CUDA code verification. Engineers build features, not compliance reports.

– IDE integration: Issues surface during coding, not weeks later

– 30-40% faster debugging:
Race conditions and memory issues in NVIDIA CUDA caught with full context, fixed immediately


– Remove manual documentation: 
2-3 months per C++ and CUDA developer per year recovered from manual compliance tasks through automated documentation

Result:
15% productivity increase during first year. 

30% senior engineer time returned to development through eliminating manual verification overhead.

Why Axivion Changes Safety-Critical CUDA Programming Forever

 Your GPU-accelerated code should be a performance enhancer — not a bottleneck.
Min. 40% of functional-safety code invisible
3-4 weeks audit prep for C++ and CUDA
Manual NVIDIA CUDA compliance
2-3 months/developer on code reviews
CUDA development errors found late
C++ and CUDA architecture erodes

With Axivion for CUDA

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The Impact on CUDA Programming

 Full visibility = reduced liability 

 70-80% time saved, always audit ready

The only certified solution in the industry

 15% productivity recovered 

 30-40% faster debugging 

 One-third reduction in maintenance cost 

40% Faster
GPU Debugging and Validation
15% Increase
in Developer Productivity Turing The 1st Year
Built for How CUDA Teams Actually Work

Transform How Your Teams Build And Verify GPU-accelerated CUDA Systems:

A comprehensive feature set to your C, C++, and CUDA code to enhance the data processing of your application.


Architecture Verification

Clone Detection and Management

Metric Monitoring


Coding Guidelines & Defect Detection

Dead Code Analysis

Cycle Detection

KEY FEATURES & TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Technical Capabilities for CUDA Programming Teams

Comprehensive NVIDIA CUDA analysis that goes beyond surface-level checks.


Axivion for CUDA isn't a standard linter—it's purpose-built for C++ and CUDA in safety-critical systems.

Here's what your development teams gain:

 

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Architecture Verification for CUDA Programming

Enforces CPU-GPU boundaries, catches architectural drift before it compounds, and proves Freedom from Interference (FFI) for mixed-criticality systems — all automated.

NVIDIA CUDA Specific Static Analysis

Analyzes parallel execution patterns, memory hierarchies, and thread synchronization as GPU operations—catching race conditions, deadlocks, and memory violations that traditional static analyzers miss.

Automated Compliance for CUDA Code

Verifies NVIDIA CUDA C++ Coding Guidelines (first complete tool), extends MISRA/AUTOSAR/CERT to GPU code, and enforces your custom standards continuously.

Clone Detection & Management

Finds duplicate patterns across C/C++/CUDA even after refactoring, tracks clone evolution, and identifies consolidation opportunities to cut maintenance burden.

Metric Monitoring

Calculates complexity metrics for parallel code, nesting depth, and maintainability scores.

Dead Code Analysis

Identifies unreachable kernels, unused device functions, and orphaned GPU allocations, enabling safe cleanup of legacy CUDA without breaking hidden dependencies.

Cycle Detection

Catches recursions in device code, circular CPU-GPU dependencies, and include tangles before they impact compilation or performance.

Safety Standards Compliance

Pre-qualified for ISO 26262 (ASIL-D), IEC 61508 (SIL 4), IEC 62304 (Class C), and EN 50128/50629 with test suites validating your verification process.

Seamless Integration

Works with all major IDEs, compilers including NVIDIA nvcc, integrates with CI/CD pipelines (eg. Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps), and provides delta analysis to focus verification only on changed code.

Tool Qualification Kit for CUDA Verification

The Axivion Tool Qualification Kit helps you by covering both static analysis and architecture verification for C, C++, and CUDA C++.

Supports you to meet the safety-critical industry's strictest safety standards.

How Axivion Works with Your NVIDIA CUDA Development Projects

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Architecture Verification: Your Safety Net for GPU-accelerated Code

Axivion doesn't just find bugs. It enforces your intended architecture as code evolves.

Every commit triggers verification that maps actual GPU behavior against design intent, violations caught before they compound, and system structure gets documented automatically.

How we're different:

Traditional static analyzers aren't advanced enough for the complexity of CUDA programming. Axivion understands parallel execution, memory hierarchies, and CPU-GPU boundaries as computational structures.

What this means:

– Race conditions surface at commit, not in production
– Memory violations caught immediately, not during testing
– Architectural drift blocked before it becomes permanent

 

Your architecture stays clean. Your compliance liability stays manageable.

 

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Automated Compliance That Runs Continuously

Why Speed Your Compliance Certification with Axivion

The certification and compliance bottleneck gets solved. Stop scrambling quarterly for audit evidence. Axivion generates compliance documentation with every build.

Always verified:

– All 49 coding rules from NVIDIA CUDA C++ Guidelines
– MISRA C++:2023 extended for GPU code
– AUTOSAR C++14 adapted for CUDA
– CERT security standards


Delta Analysis included:
Only verify what changed. Reduce re-certification overhead by 70% while maintaining complete traceability.

Compliance becomes background process, not quarterly panic.

Start Governing Your Safety-Critical CUDA Code in Weeks

How to Get Started

 

1. Baseline Analysis – Reality Check

Scan your actual CUDA codebase. Discover architectural violations, hidden race conditions, compliance gaps. In the Proof of Value Workshop, we can test this in your actual code, no hypotheticals.

2. Standards Configuration – Encode Your Standards

Encode NVIDIA CUDA C++ Coding Guidelines, MISRA rules, custom standards. Map your intended architecture (or let Axivion reverse-engineer it). Set boundaries between safety-critical and performance code.

3. Integrate With Zero-Disruption

 

Connect to your pipeline (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and more). Activate IDE feedback. No workflow changes: Developers get immediate feedback in their IDE.

4. Keep Continues Verification Running

Your team builds. Axivion verifies. Every commit checked, boundaries enforced, compliance automated.

Works with your existing tools, compilers, and all major CI/CD platforms.

Frequently Asked Questions About CUDA Development & Functional Safety

What changed with NVIDIA's CUDA C++ Coding Guideline announcement?

  • NVIDIA CUDA

This is a watershed moment for any team using CUDA in high-reliability systems.

For the first time, NVIDIA has published an explicit, vendor-backed "golden standard" for NVIDIA's official CUDA C++ safety Guidelines for Effective Safety-Critical Programming This means GPU code is now an auditable part of the safety argument, just like CPU code.

This is the key for you:
Axivion is the only tool that natively supports and automates these official guidelines and delivers the Tool Qualification Kit needed to simplify your compliance audit and support your journey to product safety certification.

Our tools must handle CUDA somehow?

  • NVIDIA CUDA

Check your last analysis report. Most traditional static analyzers are blind to CUDA.

They either crash, skip the GPU code entirely, or misinterpret CUDA-specific syntax as standard C++, leading to a storm of false positives. They cannot see or enforce NVIDIA's new safety rules. Axivion is the only tool that is purpose built and natively understands CUDA syntax, kernels, and host-to-device patterns.

Is automated safety verification actually required with CUDA programming?

  • NVIDIA CUDA

For regulated industries dealing with safety and security standards, yes. You must prove compliance, and manual verification isn't scalable, repeatable, or provable in an audit. NVIDIA's CUDA C++ Coding Guidelines were explicitly written to for Functional Safety and Axivion for CUDA is the only and first tool that automatically makes these enforceable. For an auditor, an automated, tool-based report is the a reliable way to produce the required compliance evidence.

We've done manual compliance verification reviews for years. Why change now with CUDA?

  • NVIDIA CUDA

Because manual reviews can't scale and they miss the most dangerous bugs and errors that cause software recalls and threaten safety and security.

Manual verification comes with limitations at spotting complex, intermittent issues like race conditions, memory access violations, or subtle bugs that only appear in parallel execution. More importantly, manual reviews cannot reliably prevent architectural drift or violations that compromise functional safety, "freedom from interference", and other key requirements in the safety-critical software industry.

Automation frees your senior engineers from routine compliance checking and documentation bottlenecks so they can focus on actual development.

Will integrating Axivion for CUDA slow development?

  • NVIDIA CUDA

It does the opposite. Your current process is slow: developers write code, then wait days for a manual review, only to get feedback on code they've already forgotten. The process itself is just a big bottleneck, and causing you liability issues. You are losing time and money.

Axivion integrates directly into the IDE and CI/CD pipeline. Developers get instant feedback and see detailed explanations for any violation. They can fix issues immediately while the context is fresh, removing the review bottleneck entirely.

Can Axivion handle our legacy C++ and CUDA code?

  • NVIDIA CUDA

Yes. This is a primary use case.

Axivion analyzes the code you actually have, not just new code. It's the perfect tool for baselining your existing projects against the new offical NVIDIA's CUDA C++ Safety Guidelines for Effective Safety-Critical Programming 

With Axivion you'll start with getting verified with:
– All 49 rules from the NVIDIA CUDA C++ Safety Guidelines
– MISRA C++:2023 extended for GPU code
– AUTOSAR C++14 adapted for CUDA
– CERT security standards
– And your own custom rules.

Many teams find that this process immediately uncovers the root cause of software development issues they've been chasing for years.

Proof of Value: Your Code, Real Results

Stop evaluating tools on demo code. See what Axivion finds in your actual CUDA codebase.

In one workshop, discover:

– Critical violations hiding in production
– Architectural drift accumulated over years
– Compliance gaps creating liability
– Exact implementation path for your team


Get your system analyzed without relying on generic demos and benchmark code. 

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