The Long and Detailed Road to Automotive Compliance
By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Semiconductor Engineering | Feat. Jörg Grosse, Product Manager Functional Safety, OneSpin
Bringing an engineering organization up to speed with automotive safety standards is a long and arduous process.
Compliance with automotive safety requirements is slowing down both innovation and participation by a flurry of startups as the whole ecosystem struggles to bring autonomous vehicles to reality.
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"Even if the designs are correct and safe, trust verification is essential to ensure that no hardware Trojans or other unintended functionality is inserted by any person or tool in any step of the development process," said Joerg Grosse, product manager for functional safety at OneSpin Solutions. "Also, security must be guaranteed so that no malicious agent can take control of the chips and cause a vehicle to behave in a dangerous way. Assuring IC integrity provides functional correctness, safety, security and trust."
