The SEooC lifecycle has become a dominant pathway for semiconductor suppliers to deliver solutions to schedule- and cost-challenged OEMs and Tier-1s, who can no longer afford to follow the ideal V-model of top-down, years-long developments. OEM/Tier-1s expect IC suppliers to provide viable complete SEooC systems (chipsets or SoCs) that can be rapidly and cost-efficiently adapted to their specific safety requirements. Here we provide our guidance on successful strategies for confronting this challenge:
• Specific case studies in automotive power and advanced sensing of strategies to optimize adaptability to improve the customer experience at design-in time
• Balancing availability vs safety in fail-operational systems through system level architecture
• Reducing the risk of the overdesign trap in bottoms-up thinking
• How to be ready for engagement with customers of SEooCs when they need to analyze the impact of changes to the assumed concept