Automotive-Grade Electronics: Reliability Design Theory, Development Process, and Full Lifetime Management - Softcover

Zuo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443540098 ISBN 13: 9780443540097

Publisher: Elsevier, 2026

Synopsis

Automotive-Grade Electronics: Reliability Design Theory, Development Process, and Full Lifetime Management provides readers with a comprehensive, up-to-date, expert, and best practice reference resource. The book fills a gap in the current literature by providing readers with a systematic exploration of reliability design theory, development processes, and full lifetime management of automotive-grade electronics, for both components and parts. The book takes a unique industry perspective, drawing upon the authors' two decades of experience in the electronics industry.

• Provides best practice guidance for R&D, testing, and manufacturing in the automotive electronic, chips, component, and parts industries
• Systematically describes reliability design theory, development processes, and full lifetime management of automotive-grade electronics for both components and parts
• Includes analysis of Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) standards for electronic components, automotive-grade certification, and functional safety (ISO 26262)
• Covers electrical and environment testing and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) testing of automotive electronic parts, including Design Verification and Product Validation (DV/PV) tests
• Examines reliability requirements for the entire lifetime of a vehicle

About this title

About the Authors

Chenggang Zuo is the CEO and co-founder of Futureauto Tec, an automotive electronics parts company. He obtained a Bachelor's degree from the China University of Mining and Technology. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the design of automotive Electronic Control Units or ECUs. Chenggang Zuo has worked at BYD and Lear’s Asia Pacific Technology Center, where he led the design and development of multiple body controllers, power management modules, and gateways (crucial components in managing and distributing electrical power, particularly in complex systems)

Xueli Heng is Research and Development Director of Futureauto Tec, an automotive electronics parts company. She obtained a Bachelor's degree from Peking University. Xueli Heng has nearly 20 years of experience in the design of automotive electronic controllers. She previously worked at BYD and Continental Automotive Holding (Shanghai). Xueli Heng is an automotive functional safety expert and process expert

From the Back Cover

At a time when the new energy and automatic pilot vehicle industry is undergoing rapid expansion, Automotive-Grade Electronics: Reliability Design Theory, Development Process, and Full Lifetime Management provides readers with a comprehensive, up to date, expert, and best practice reference resource. The number of ECUs (Electronic Control Units) in vehicles has increased rapidly and a key concern for the industry is how to ensure high reliability for the lifetime of automotive electronic components and parts. This timely book addresses this issue at system level. This book fills a gap in the current literature by providing readers with a systematic exploration of reliability design theory, development processes and full lifetime management of automotive-grade electronics, for both components and parts. The book takes a unique industry perspective, drawing upon the authors' two decades of experience in the electronics industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443540098
• ISBN 13: 9780443540097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 616