New Shifts In Automotive Design
By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Semiconductor Engineering
Four big shifts in automotive design and usage are beginning to converge—electrification, increasing connectivity, autonomous driving and car sharing—creating a ripple effect across the automotive electronics supply chain.
Over the past few years the electronic content of cars and other vehicles has surged, with electrical systems replacing traditional mechanical and electro-mechanical subsystems. That has been a key driver for semiconductor growth, and autonomous vehicles are the poster child of this effort. But the emergence of this market also will result in profound technological and sociological changes.
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“The ISO 26262 standard sets a high bar for functional verification and elimination of systematic faults, as well as the ability to handle random fault effects in operating devices,” said David Landoll, solutions architect at OneSpin Solutions. “Some EDA vendors are obtaining external certification for compliance to this standard. This makes it easier for their customers, semiconductor suppliers, to meet functional safety compliance requirements and, in turn, for subsystem and vehicle manufacturers to do the same.”
