Automotive Electronics Council

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The Automotive Electronics Council ( AEC for short ) is an American organization for the standardization of the qualification of electronic components in the automotive supplier industry .

history

The idea of ​​the AEC was born in the summer of 1992 at a JEDEC meeting. Gerald Servais' ( Delco Electronics - General Motors ) and Jerry Jennings ( Chrysler ) discussed the difficulties of qualification in the relatively small business area of ​​automotive electronics. The idea of ​​standardizing qualifications was mentioned as a possible way to improve this situation. At a subsequent JEDEC meeting, Mr. Servais discussed this possible collaboration with Robert Knoell (then Ford , now NXP Semiconductors ), who found the support of his boss Earl Fischer for this idea.

At a meeting in January 1993, the various reliability tests used by each company were discussed. Work on the reliability tests for integrated circuits ( IC ) "Q100" began shortly thereafter. During the development of Q100, primary IS suppliers had the opportunity to comment on the document. The first edition of the CDF-AEC Q100 (now abbreviated to AEC Q100) was presented to all IS suppliers at a June 1994 meeting in Denver. AEC Q100 became the preferred reliability test document for Chrysler, Delco Electronics, and Ford. It encouraged the sharing of reliability data. Circuits that are AEC Q100 qualified are for all three companies and do not require any further reliability tests.

Later specifications for reliability tests of other sub-categories were developed: AEC Q101 for discrete semiconductor components and AEC Q200 for passive components .

AEC holds a reliability workshop every year .

In the meantime, the quality requirements according to AEC Q100 are the minimum standard of all automobile manufacturers and suppliers worldwide, although alternative methods such as Robustness Validation have been developed since 2005 , which better reflect the quality requirements of the automotive industry.

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