Hardware SPICE Extension for Automotive SPICE 3.1

Abstract

Automotive SPICE is an assessment model which is published and maintained by the VDA and the SPICE User Group (www.automotivespice.com ). Version 3.1 has been published in Nov. 2017 and in Jan. 2018 a guideline for interpreting (Blue-Gold Book) ASPICE 3.1 has been published by the VDA. Also Automotive SPICE 3.1 in Annex D outlines that the plugin concept will foresee that a hardware and a mechanics SPICE assessment model will be integrated in the future. The SOQRATES working group (www.soqrates.de ) which includes a group of leading Automotive suppliers developed a hardware SPICE model in 2016 – 2017 which can be plugged into Automotive SPICE 3.1 and used for hardware assessment. Also in the working party the ISO 26262 norm has been reviewed since product safety assessments according to the ISO 26262 functional safety norm include hardware assessment. All base practices of the hardware SPICE assessment model therefore have been extended with further checklists to include a functional safety scope. The paper describes the main elements of the hardware SPICE assessment model, how it can be plugged into Automotive SPICE 3.1, and where it is mainly used in the first trial projects.