Excellent Processes: SGS-TÜV Saar awards ISO 26262 certification to Faraday Technology

14 March 2017

Faraday Technology Corporation is the world's first ISO 26262 certified ASIC service company to be awarded the certification for safety-relevant electric/electronic systems in motor vehicles. SGS-TÜV Saar, as an independent auditor, confirmed the Taiwanese company's excellent Functional Safety Processes. The design-development process has been certified by means of a pilot project for control units for the electric drive in e-cars.

According to McClean Report 2016, Faraday is one of the Top 50 fabless IC suppliers and known for their ASIC-components. ASIC stands for application-specific integrated circuit and refers to microchips, which can be adapted to the needs of the customer and the application. Many well-known automotive industry suppliers use these IT-components in their control units.

The SGS-TÜV Saar validates Faraday's development process conformity with the ISO 26262 certification. The basis for this was a comprehensive on-site audit. In this way, the company can successfully demonstrate that Functional Safety standards for the automotive industry are implemented in its development process and hardware design – starting from the product idea all the way to serial production.