Reliability issues for automobile SoCs

Abstract

Current vehicles are built with complex electronic systems embedded with more than a hundred microprocessors through complicated automotive networks. In the de facto ISO 26262 standard in the automotive industry, Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) is classified into four different levels. In this chapter, the ISO 26262 hardware ASIL is described in detail. Then, we introduce fault diagnosis architectures that use various design for testability techniques such as scan design, built-in self-test, IEEE boundary scan design, and error correcting codes for increasing hardware reliability. © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014.