Broad perspective, a line of international semiconductor industry engaged in automobile electronic field has been not a short time, however, the market began to promote functional safety standard: ISO 26262, not only is the car with a line module factory need to meet this specification, in recent years, we can see a lot of a line of automotive semiconductor companies, in addition to AEC - Q100 basic equipped with outside of the solution, the word ISO 26262, began to appear in the world of automotive semiconductor.

New RTL synthesis of science and technology, power and test automation department Gal Hasson

Chip, however, to meet the requirements of AEC - Q100 or ISO 26262, check, or should start from EDA vendors, provided by the EDA industry solutions, to further according to the design of automotive semiconductor industry demand. New RTL synthesis of science and technology, power and test automation department Gal Hasson, said new thinking previously introduced ATPG tools TetraMAX (automatic test pattern generation)? Have been issued by SGS, TUV ASIL to the top ranks of the D in the ISO 26262 certification.

Gal Hasson goes further, TetraMAX? Is the main features of can reduce 25% of Test pattern (Test Patterns) output, but in the Test pattern generation can boost the speed of 10 times, in simple terms, is to save the Test cost for the customer. Chip for many companies, such as qualcomm, broadcom, or mediatek, test time means that the existence of the test cost, so how to further reduce or lower, has become the industry one of the important topics. New thinking can provide not only just testability analysis, such as compression test time and test build and yield analysis, etc., is one of the new thinking can provide solutions,

However, Gal Hasson also stressed that reduce 25% of test pattern can indeed save some time for the customer, but relatively, without reducing the 25%, relative also can let customers developed by the chip quality is improved, so the relative balance between time and quality, is the customer itself subject to contemplate. On the other hand, he also revealed that there are car chip manufacturers have process node aimed at 14 and 16 nm FinFET process, although can't disclose customer name, but the new thought has already begun to help them deal with this aspect of the design and technical issues.