LLL Collector has been awarded a functional Safety management development process certification by T-ChengDu lmage Design Technology co.,Ltd.

Collector has been awarded a functional Safety management development proces 2024.06.25

On December 17, 2021, TUV SUD (hereinafter referred to as "TUV SUD") headquarters in Germany officially issued a functional safety management development process certification to IMGDS that can support the development of chip products up to ASIL D.

Previously, TUV SUD had issued the relevant compliance assessment and approval report to low-light collector at the Fourth China International Import Expo (hereinafter referred to as "CIIE 2021"). At the Expo, Wang Yong, executive vice president of low-light collector, introduced the basic situation of the company, the main products and technical advantages, and summarized the investment and achievements of low-light collector in the field of functional safety. At the same time, Wang Yong stressed that the vehicle gauge level image sensor is the strategic direction of the low-light level collector layout, the company will go all out to do the vehicle gauge level image sensor products, and firmly believe that the low-light level collector will become the industry's leading vehicle gauge level image sensor supplier. Jianjun Sun, Senior Vice President of TUV SUD Greater China, also introduced the basic situation and advantages of TUV SUD, and congratulated LLL Collector on passing the functional safety management process assessment for ASIL D level product development issued by TUV SUD.

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Due to the impact of the epidemic, Chen Xiaobing, vice minister of the quality Department of low-light collector products, and Yang Fan participated in the event remotely. After the meeting, Chen Xiaobing said in an interview, "This time to obtain the functional safety process certification, marking that LLL in the functional safety research and development process has been recognized by the industry authority TUV SUD, but the implementation of the process will be a relatively long and difficult process. Subsequently, low-light collector will accelerate the process landing and related product development, and launch a series of functionally safe vehicle-level image sensor chip products."

《Functional safety process certificate》

Traditional image sensors mainly include pixel array, digital-to-analog conversion module, timing control module, signal processing module, data output interface, etc. The configuration of these modules is often carried out through registers, which is difficult to realize real-time adjustment parameters according to the environment. As image sensors become more integrated, ISPs and small MCUS are gradually integrated inside sensors, and chip companies also need to deliver MCU drivers. Therefore, the scope of the functional safety management certificate of low light level collector not only includes the hardware design and management support part of the traditional CIS chip design consideration, but also includes the software design part.

Founded in 1866, TUV SUD is a world-renowned 100-year certified company with deep technical accumulation in functional safety, electronic information technology, integrated circuit design and other fields. This time, LLL collector received the certificate of functional safety process support to ASIL D issued by TUV SUD, which also shows that TUV SUD recognizes LLL collector's investment and achievements in the construction of functional safety system. At the same time of the process certification, LLL Collector is still actively working with TUV SUD to develop and manufacture ASIL B/C class image sensor chips that meet the functional safety requirements.

Founded in 2014, IMGDS has been focusing on CMOS image sensors. The company has a full-process research and development team for chip products, including process device development, circuit design, image-specific algorithms and AI algorithms, functional safety, system scheme design, product testing and reliability evaluation and other full-process comprehensive research and development strength. The company mainly has a number of CIS product lines such as security, vehicle, industrial automation, scientific customization, Rolling Shutter, Global Shutter and sCMOS pixel library, with product resolutions ranging from 400,000 to more than 100 million pixels. The main application areas are security monitoring, vehicle, consumer electronics, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation, intelligent logistics, robotics, AR/VR, semiconductor equipment, astronomical observation and so on.

This time, TUV SUD issued a functional safety process certification to IMGDS that supports ASIL D, which is a milestone for IMGDS and the starting point of a new journey. In this new journey, IMGDS will focus on ASIL B/C level product development for functional safety processes to bring safer vehicle-level image sensor products to customers and consumers.