Automotive Standards and Qualifications

Altera is committed to supporting the automotive industry's quality and reliability requirements with top-notch, defect-free products. We have an aggressive zero parts per million (PPM) defects roadmap and continue to make strides in achieving our goal. To date, we have 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 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 by submitting a service request at mysupport.

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 IC manufacturer undertakes. To date, we've successfully provided over 100 PPAP submissions to various automotive customers. For more details or to request an Altera^® PPAP document, contact the automotive quality group by submitting a service request at mysupport.

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 our automotive-grade semiconductor products are manufactured at TS-16949-compliant facilities (see Figure 1). Our manufacturing wafer fab partners (TSMC and Wafertech) and our 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.