Automotive Standards and Qualifications
Altera is committed to supporting the automotive industry’s quality and reliability requirements with top-notch, defect-free products. Altera has an aggressive zero parts per million (PPM) roadmap and continues to make strides in achieving its goal. To date, Altera has had a solid track record in shipping quality products to the automotive industry.
AEC-Q100
AEC-Q100 is a set of stress test qualifications for automotive integrated circuits (ICs). Altera is a member of the automotive electronics council (AEC). For more details on Altera’s AEC-Q100 testing or device-specific results, contact the automotive quality group at customer-quality@altera.com.
TS-16949
Altera is an ISO 9001:2000 certified supplier. The TS-16949 standard is the automotive portion of the ISO 9001:2000. All of Altera’s automotive-grade semiconductor products are manufactured at TS-16949 compliant facilities (see Figure 1). Altera’s manufacturing wafer fab partners (TSMC and Wafertech) and its packaging and test partners (ASE and AMKOR) are TS-16949 certified and registered (see Table 1).
Figure 1. Altera’s TS-16949-Certified Manufacturing Flow
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
PPAP, 3rd edition, Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) is one of the key requirements for the automotive industry. A PPAP document outlines all the manufacturing quality processes that an integrated circuit (IC) manufacturer undertakes. To date, Altera has successfully provided over 70 PPAP submissions to various automotive customers. For more details on Altera PPAP documentation, contact the automotive quality group at customer-quality@altera.com.
Notes:
- ATK = Amkor Korea, ATP = Amkor Philippines, ASEM = ASE Malaysia, ASEK = ASE Taiwan (Kaosiung).
- Devices can be programmed many different ways. TS-16949 compliance is achieved if devices are pre-programmed by Altera or other TS-16949-compliant facility.
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