Powering Reliability - Ensuring Automotive Quality beyond AEC Q100/101

June 30th, 2009

Hans-Peter Hoenes, Senior Manager for Product Line Applications, Automotive at Fairchild Semiconductors, writes:

The increasing complexity of electronic systems in modern automobiles reached a level where a paradigm shift both in design and the qualification process becomes mandatory. Releasing products according AEC-Q101, a sampling based method derived from ammunition testing in the 1940s and implemented in the 1960s for automotive, is absolutely insufficient to support a zero defect strategy. The combined use of state-of-the-art design tools and methods for robustness validation allows designers to cope with these challenges.

Read the complete article on the Automotive DesignLine website.

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