Technical Paper
Mastering Semiconductor Datasheets for Delivering a Robust ECU Design Meeting Stringent Automotive Application Requirements
2019-04-02
2019-01-0474
As electronics enters every subsystem of a vehicle, ECU (Electronic Control Unit) designers need to judiciously select the semiconductor components to meet automotive application requirements. Choice of semiconductor components is governed by reliability and robustness on one hand and the needs of frugal implementations meeting the stringent automotive requirements. The former calls for adequate design margin to ensure trouble free life outlasting the vehicle life whereas the later demands in depth knowledge of semiconductor behavior so that cost/performance trade-off does not lead to potential filed problems. ECU designers need to critically study semiconductor datasheets, analyze application literature and extensively interact with semiconductor application engineers so as to arrive at the optimum choice of semiconductor components in their ECU Design.
