Auto Chip Design, Test Changes Ahead
By Kevin Fogarty, Semiconductor Engineering
The automotive industry’s unceasing demand for performance, coupled with larger and more complex processors, are driving broad changes in how electronics are designed, verified and tested.
What’s changing is that these systems, which include AI-oriented logic developed at the most advanced process nodes, need to last several times longer than traditional IT and consumer devices, and they need to work under conditions that even a year ago would have been considered unrealistic. This is forcing changes from one end of the supply chain to the other, raising questions about how this will impact time to market, cost, and which approaches ultimately will work best.
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