This automotive-grade MCU manufacturer launches ISO26262-ASIL certified new products to expand into the global automotive electronics market

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In the past two years, the trend of smart electric vehicles has been unstoppable, which has greatly increased the demand for MCU products. This coupled with the wave of local supply has driven domestic automotive MCU manufacturers to continuously improve their technical capabilities to expand the growth space of domestic automotive MCU products. Facing the new market structure, there are many domestic MCU original manufacturers eyeing the automotive electronics application market. How to lay out the direction of technology upgrades is becoming the "key to breaking the situation" for companies to achieve wider applications. What are the plans for the domestic original factory?


On October 25, at the 30th China Society of Automotive Engineers 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting and Exhibition, domestic independent architecture MCU chip design company Shanghai ChipON Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. (ChipON, hereinafter referred to as: ChipON Microelectronics) Product Director Lu Hengyang delivered a keynote speech "KungFu Core Automotive MCU Helps Automotive Chip Localization".


As the domestic leader in automotive-grade MCUs, Xinwang Microelectronics is continuously accelerating the pace of technology research and development and enriching its product matrix with its years of R&D experience in the field of automotive-grade MCUs. In this speech, Lu Hengyang focused on introducing the latest automotive-grade MCU product of Xinwang Microelectronics - KF32A158, and shared the company's latest technology upgrade progress.


In this article, Master Xin will use the sharing of Xinwang Microelectronics as a window to observe with readers in the industry: the sparks of the current domestic automotive-grade MCU market demand and technology collision, directly hitting the current technologically leading domestic automotive-grade MCU products and companies. Upgrade path.


Upgrading the technical safety fence KF32A158 from "autonomous ecology" to "autonomous safety ecology"


"Xinwang Microelectronics is committed to growing into a cornerstone supplier in the local automotive chip field." In sharing this event, Lu Hengyang once again emphasized the company's value proposition. As a "local cornerstone" supplier, the first thing to solve is the independence and diversity of products.


According to Mr. Xin, in the past ten years, Xinwang Microelectronics has built a complete KungFu MCU product ecosystem based on the independently developed KungFu instruction set and core architecture. Currently, it has launched more than 50 automotive-grade MCU products. It extensively covers scenarios such as chassis power, body control, automotive power supply and motor, and smart cockpit. With its three major characteristics of high reliability, low power consumption and high performance, KungFu MCU has been used in many Fortune 500 companies and well-known domestic companies around the world, deeply empowering the domestic automotive industry to be independent and controllable.


The launch of the new KF32A158 product series marks that Xinwang Microelectronics is moving towards a new journey towards automotive MCU applications.


According to Lu Hengyang, KF32A158 is a KungFu core MCU launched by Xinwang Microelectronics that meets the ISO26262-ASILB level. KF32A158 can provide up to 2MB ECC Flash and 256KB RAM; it also supports A/B partition bootloader; the unique information security management unit can provide secure storage of keys, multiple AES encryption and decryption, and secure boot functions.


In terms of peripheral resources, KF32A158 provides 3 channels of CANFD interfaces and up to 4 channels of USART (LIN); there are also multiple channels of SPI and IIC , which can meet the needs of current complex body control systems.

 ▲ KF32A158 product parameters


As an MCU product that meets functional safety standards, KF32A158 provides memory protection unit-MPU, clock detection unit-CMU, power management-PMU. In addition, it provides modules for common functional modules such as GPIO and ADC. Self-check function. The design of these security mechanisms ensures that the MCU can easily achieve the security goals of system applications.


Judging from the official product announcement information, in addition to comprehensive upgrades in product performance, the KF32A158 series products are even more eye-catching - they comply with the ISO26262-ASILB level.


ISO 26262 is a globally recognized automotive functional safety standard. Products must pass this standard certification. The assessment indicators cover the entire life cycle of the product, including functional safety management, concept stage development, system stage development, hardware stage development, software stage development, and support. Process, security analysis, product release and all other aspects.


Currently, ISO26262 is only a recommended assessment standard for "top students" in automotive-grade semiconductor products, and is not a mandatory standard. This standard aims to improve the functional safety performance of automotive electronics and electrical products. However, for domestic automobile OEMs and parts suppliers, establishing a functional safety management system and developing products that meet functional safety requirements have become the threshold that must be passed to enter the international automobile OEM supplier system.


The KF32A158 series products meet the ISO 26262 automotive functional safety standard, which means that Xinwang Microelectronics has built a product development and process system layout that meets the globally recognized ISO 26262 standard. The results of the accelerated improvement of the supporting R&D capabilities and management capabilities of automotive-grade MCUs have already appeared.


In addition, Xinwang Microelectronics’ automotive-grade MCU’s powerful product resources, supported by globally recognized functional safety certifications, can be applied to global brand automotive control systems, including body control systems, lighting control systems, instrument control systems, and thermal management control system and regional body domain control system, etc.


After the KF32A158 series is officially launched into the market, it will start a new journey of Xinwang Microelectronics automotive grade MCU from "autonomous ecology" to "autonomous safety ecology". This is a historic breakthrough in the independent ecology of China's local automotive grade MCU.


Comprehensive endowment of "security" skills KungFu MCU ecological start again


Lu Hengyang introduced that with more than ten years of profound accumulation and technological accumulation in the automotive market, Xinwang Microelectronics has obtained ISO26262 ASIL-D process certification and IATF16949 automotive quality management system certification in 2022.  In the first half of this year, some core MCU products have obtained ISO26262 ASIL-B product certification certificate, steady progress and continuous evolution have laid a solid foundation for KF32A158's innovation in automotive functional safety, and has gradually built a mid-to-high-end product camp that meets automotive functional safety standards.


With the R&D experience of the KF32A158 product series in safety technology, in the future, Xinwang Microelectronics automotive-grade MCUs will gradually deepen "security empowerment" and promote the development of KungFu series MCUs to higher functional safety level applications, heading towards the next domestic automotive-grade MCU. Application milestones.

 ▲ Xinwang micro-car MCU product development roadmap


In order to ensure the rapid development of this product safety technology path, in this speech sharing, Xinshiye learned that Xinwang Microelectronics focuses on improving the capabilities of the new "safety" technology platform from two aspects.


On the one hand, Xinwang Microelectronics is strengthening the construction of a sustainable automotive chip reliability testing platform. As an early domestic chip manufacturer that entered the automotive MCU field, Xinwang Microelectronics has accumulated rich and advanced technical experience in the field of automotive electronics. Through years of continuous investment in building its own reliability laboratory, it has ensured the reliability of its automotive grade products. The reliability testing process has accelerated the progress of the reliability testing process for its vehicle-specific product lines to pass various certifications. Coupled with Xinwang Microelectronics' continuous strengthening of long-term cooperation with third-party laboratories leading in testing technology, a sustainable and authoritative automotive chip reliability testing system has been formed to escort the various certification processes of its automotive products.


On the other hand, Xinwang Microelectronics continues to improve the KungFu series MCU development ecosystem. Lu Hengyang mentioned in introducing the development ecology of KF32A158 that Xinwang Microelectronics development ecology service package now includes: ① Provide standard MCAL software services for AutoSar platform development; ② Provide more advanced and direct HLI (High Level) for non-AutoSar platform development Interface) interface services; ③ Provide more direct and efficient LLD (Low-Level-Driver) software services for customers with complex applications; ④ Provide complete STL software packages and other special services for functional safety projects. The underlying software architecture of these ecological services can be unified or independently disassembled to meet a variety of user needs.


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At present, the automotive electronics market is accelerating the introduction of domestic MCU products, and domestic automotive-grade MCUs are facing broad development opportunities. Standing in front of a historic application window, how to differentiate and innovatively upgrade domestic automotive-grade MCUs to break through is a question that every company on the track must think deeply about.

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