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

  • Book

  • September 2026
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
  • ID: 6251696
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.

Table of Contents

Part I: Background of the automotive electronics industry chain and reliability requirements for in-vehicle electronics
1. Overview of automotive electronics and reliability
2. In-vehicle applications of electronic modules
3. External environmental challenges for automotive electronic modules
4. Electrical and electromagnetic environments
5. Automotive-grade testing for electronic modules

Part II: AEC standards and characteristics of automotive grade electronic components
6. Introduction to AEC standards
7. Automotive-grade electronic components

Part III: Engineering practices for full life cycle reliability management of AECs
8. Design and development of electronic modules
9. Automotive electronics reliability Conclusion

Authors

Chenggang Zuo CEO and co-founder, Futureauto Tec, China.

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 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