Hardware SPICE at a glance

The HWE PRM/PAM introduces a hardware engineering domain plug-in for the Automotive SPICE® Plug-In concept, originally introduced in Automotive SPICE® 3.0. This plug-in addresses the perspectives of both semiconductor engineering and control device engineering while fully adopting the Capability Dimension of Automotive SPICE® without changes.

Aligned with Automotive SPICE® version 4.0, the HWE PRM/PAM version 3.0 offers a robust framework for hardware engineering processes.

Key Features of HWE PRM/PAM

• . Detailed Key Concepts: Includes methodological and technical rationales to explain the most relevant decisions.

• . ISO 26262:2018 Mapping: Provides a detailed mapping, primarily (but not exclusively) to ISO 26262 Part 5 – Product Development at the Hardware Level.

• . Practical Examples: Features non-normative examples of Best Practices (BPs) for better understanding and implementation.

• . Aligned Guidelines: Includes rating rules and recommendations aligned with the Automotive SPICE® Guidelines, 2nd Edition.

• . Information Item References: Annex A directly references ‘Information Item Characteristics’ outlined in Annex B of the ASPICE PRM/PAM 4.0.

These 3-lifecycle process categories has been further segregated into process groups as per ASPICE® 4.0

• 1. Primary Lifecycle Processes

• a) Acquisition process group

ACQ.4 Supplier Monitoring

• b) Supply process group

SPL.2 Product Release

• c) System engineering process group

SYS.1 Requirements Elicitation
SYS.2 System Requirements Analysis
SYS.3 System Architectural Design
SYS.4 System Integration & Integration Test
SYS.5 System Qualification Test

• d) Hardware engineering process group

HWE.1 Hardware Requirements Analysis
HWE.2 Hardware Design
HWE.3 Verification against Hardware Design
HWE.4 Verification against Hardware Requirements

• 2. Supporting Lifecycle Processes

• a) Supporting process group

SUP.1 Quality Assurance
SUP.8 Configuration Management
SUP.9 Problem Resolution Management
SUP.10 Change Request Management
SUP.11 Machine Learning Data Management

• 3. Organizational Lifecycle Processes

• a) Management process group

MAN.3 Project Management
MAN.5 Risk Management
MAN.6 Measurement

• b) Process improvement process group

PIM.3 Process Improvement

• c) Reuse process group

REU.2 Reuse Program Management