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EPSRC Reference:	GR/N36271/01
Title:	DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY FOR ELECTRONICS IN AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURE (DREAM)
Principal Investigator:	Richardson, Professor A
Other Investigators:	Seward, Professor DW
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	Daewoo Motor Co Ltd Micro Circuit Engineering TRW
Department:	Engineering
Organisation:	Lancaster University
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	15 February 2001	Ends:	14 July 2004	Value (£):	176,648
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Control Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Electronics Transport Systems and Vehicles
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Automotive electronic systems, especially on the Foresight Timescale will be highly integrated and mechatronic by nature comprising microprocessor control, intelligent sensing and actuation and networking functions. Many of these systems will also be located in harsh environments. The distributed nature of these sub-systems and in many cases the criticality of their function will require conformance to zero failure in the context of the user. This implies the need for high reliability design and manufacture and on-line monitoring functions capable of detecting faults on-line and acting upon the fault to prevent system failure.Meeting these specifications is now feasible providing a cost effective methodology is developed to identify and eliminate the main failure modes in the electronic sub-system components (mainly packaging and interconnect) and implement self-test and on-line monitoring functions to cover the remaining potential failures. The DREAM project will address this challenge by carrying out research into:1. how self-test, on-line monitoring reconfiguration functions developed in the microelectronics and microsystem industries can be applied to automotive, mechatronic sub-systems.2. How mixed signal fault simulation and failure mode and effect analysis can be used to identify failure modes, their effect and methods of detection in complex, next generation automotive electronic systems.EngProg\
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