WORKSHOPS
AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONIC WORKSHOP
Driving into the Future
Tuesday 24 September
16:20 - 18:20
Room Pizzetti
The automotive industry is experiencing a high-speed, overwhelming metamorphoses. On the journey towards autonomous driving, the semiconductor content and its complexity in vehicles is increasing rapidly. A vehicle equipped with the latest advances today will be antiquated tomorrow.
In this workshop, challenges and solutions related to this revolution will be presented and discussed. Experts in battery management, on-chip monitoring, functional safety, and long-live application mission profiles have prepared topics to share and discuss with hopefully a very large audience.
Students are more than welcome to join as well, because attracting the next generation of talented engineers to “drive into the future” is a challenge by itself.
​​​RENE RONGEN NXP​
René Rongen is Fellow Applied Reliability
in the Corporate NTI/NPI Quality & Reliability
Team of NXP.
Since 1997, when he joined Philips / NXP, he has been active in the area of reliability physics in various functions. Internal NXP, he is lead editor of NXP’s Reliability Policy, owner of many product reliability test specs and the Reliability Knowledge Framework. He is actively representing NXP in industry standardization bodies like AEC, JEDEC and ZVEI. As such, he contributes to revisions of AEC-Q100 and -Q006, JESD47 and ZVEI Handbook for Robustness Validation. He is (co)author of many papers on various topics; e.g., reliability of Cu-wire, of solder joints and of WL CSP devices. He is visiting reliability relevant conferences and workshops, like IRPS, ESREF, ECTC and AEC-RW, to present papers, as invited speaker or as technical committee member. From 2005 until 2018, he was supporting the Dutch Accreditation Council as reliability test specialist for the ISO17025 accreditation of reliability labs from various companies in the Netherlands.
Moderator
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Motorvehicle University of Emilia-Romagna - Education, Research and LifeLongLearning
Motorvehicle University of Emilia-Romagna (motorvehicleuniversity.com), is an association founded by the 4 universities of the Emilia-Romagna region and the most important companies in the Italian Motor Valley, to train the vehicle engineers of the future. International talent education, edge research, and lifelong learning are challenges that must be overcome to ensure the industrial success of companies in a context of deep and unpredictable transformation of reference technologies and automotive paradigms.
​​​FRANCESCO LEALI Muner​
Francesco Leali is full professor of Design and Methods of Industrial Engineering, holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is an expert in model based design for automotive. He is dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and a delegate member of the board of MUNER (Motorvehicle University of Emilia-Romagna).
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Definition of sensors and their positioning inside the battery packs in automotive applications
During the past decade, the automotive industry is enduring a severe process of electrification. One of the keys components for this transition is the battery, whose design is highly affected by the cell formats that are available on the shelves.
This contribution to the workshop aims to give an overview on the strategic choice of battery sensors positioning with the goal of optimizing an electric vehicle battery design, assembly and rework. Furthermore, it will be given an insight on the choice of the typology and minimum number of sensors in a battery, from whose information virtual sensors can be modeled. Finally, it will be sketched how the combined use of physical and virtual sensors is employed for diagnostics purposes and to improve reliability with degraded modes.
MATTEO TASSINARI Ferrari​​
Matteo Tassinari completed his Master degree in Automation Engineering at the University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum in 2014. His first work experiences have been in the field of automotive in the Engine Control Unit in Ferrari on the V12 naturally aspirated engine until 2017.
In The 2017 in Ferrari born the Hybrid department and he became part of the system simulation and battery development. During the growth of the department, that actually change name in ElectroMechanical and Electronics Component, became responsible for Battery Simulation and Battery Control strategies.
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On-chip monitoring opportunities to address software defined vehicle opportunities
The automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation driven by main factors like autonomous driving, connectivity, electrification and advanced infotainment. Differently to the past, not only the latest technology nodes, maybe even chiplet technologies have to be used, to fulfill those use cases, but also the mission profile itself is moving from 8000h ignition on time to 131 400h always on. To maintain or even improve the field quality, through this fundamental transformation is an enormous challenge for the automotive industry. This contribution to the workshop will propose and discuss the use of on chip monitoring as potential mitigation for those challenges.
HEINZ WAGENSONNER Audi​​
Heinz Wagensonner is management expert in the Audi Semiconductor Robust Design Team. 28 years ago he began his professional journey at Siemens Semiconductors, later moving to OSRAM OS as a Product Development Engineer. He spent 16 years at Continental as Senior Technical Expert for Semiconductor Quality and received in 2008 the Continental Gold Award for his patents. In 2021, he joined CARIAD as the Quality Lead for CARIAD Semiconductors in VW cars and moved to Audi in January 2024. He holds an engineering degree in Microsystem Technology from the University of Applied Sciences in Regensburg and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering.
DAN ALEXANDRESCU Synopsis​​
Dan Alexandrescu is Principal Engineer at Synopsys and has a 25+ years' experience in the architecture, implementation, and test of dependable electronic systems. He's currently focusing on SLM technologies to support reliability and safety goals for large fleets of advanced devices.
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Hands on to hands off to eyes off and the implications
The complexity of the requirements for automotive applications is increasing at an astonishing pace, none more so than autonomous driving. The acceleration driven by advancing global safety standards (NCAP) calls for a lot more than just a rigorous step by step approach. The functional safety of systems, products and processes increases with every day and with every new development and we must maintain a grasp of the risks during every phase. We will discuss the challenges of implementing a safe, secure, complex driver assistance system that paves the way towards autonomous driving.
MARTIN DUNCAN STM​​
Dr. Martin DUNCAN is currently VP Global Key Account. In this role he drives the whole business line for partially and fully autonomous vehicles. He has been in charge to drive the strategy and implementation for those advanced products and applications since the humble beginnings in 2005. He joined STMicroelectronics in 1990 and has held various positions in R&D before moving into the automotive business arena in 1998 He holds both a B.Sc. (honors) in Microelectronics (1987) and a Ph.D. in Microelectronics from Edinburgh University (1992).
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Extended Mission Profiles for Automotive Applications - Needs and Solution Approaches
Lifetime requirements in automotive, especially with respect to operating hours, have significantly increased over the recent years. At the same time modern technologies lead to decreasing robustness margins. This brings a severe demand of sufficient but realistic mission profiles.
This presentation will sketch the needs and provide ideas for potential solution approaches. It will furthermore give a snapshot of running industry and standardization activities.
ULRICH ABELEIN Infineon​​
Ulrich Abelein is with Infineon as a Senior Principal Engineer and is responsible for product reliability methods. He leads the AEC-Q100 and AEC-Q006 task groups within the Automotive Electronics Councils and contributes regularly to industry wide working groups and activities dealing with mission profiles and the standardization of lifetime requirements.