Addressing the Evolving Landscape of Automotive SoCs
Automotive and industrial SOCs have extremely high design and verification complexities. These devices integrate a broad range of IP – simple sensors, complex interface IP (e.g., DDR), accelerators (e.g., GPU/AI), industrial interface IP (e.g., CAN), safety and security (e.g., tamper), etc. These IP can come from widely dissimilar sources – often internal as well as multiple external (“third-party”) sources. These SOCs typically support a wide range of customer use cases and software stacks. After a brief introduction to this problem and scope, we will cover two major topics. First, we will look at some case study silicon escapes, root cause, and potential corrective actions. Second, we will look at evolving requirements in this space and the impact to design verification scope.