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 an exemplary 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.

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

PPAP, 3^rd 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 or to request an Altera PPAP document, 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 fib 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

Notes:

1. ATK = Amkor Korea, ATP = Amkor Philippines, ASEM = ASE Malaysia, ASEK = ASE Taiwan (Kaohsiung).
2. 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.