Electronic Design

Know Your Safety Application Notes (Part 2): Failure Mode Distribution

This article provides insights into the importance of an IC’s pin failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) to comply with functional-safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO... 1. FMEA and its ...
Machine Design

Determining reliability and failure rate in electronic drive components

The reliability of electronic assemblies is directly related to the failure rate: higher reliability means a lower failure rate of the drive system, as it reduces the probability of failure within a ...
Electronic Design

Know Your Safety Application Notes (Part 1): Failure Rates

Failure rate or base failure rate refers to the number of failures per unit of time, typically in terms of failures in time (FITs) equivalent to one failure in a billion hours, which can be expected ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Is A Guestimate Good Enough For Obtaining Failure Mode Distribution?

SoCs targeting automotive applications are required to meet certain safety and quality standards as described in ISO 26262. A quantitative approach to safety analysis involves performing Failure Mode ...
Deccan Chronicle

Building Databases That Survive Scale, Stress, And Failure

Vipul Kumar Bondugula on why adaptability, smarter concurrency, and failure-aware design are critical to building dependable ...
pv magazine International

Scientists discover new failure mode in LECO-treated TOPCon solar cells

An international research team has observed a significant increase in series resistance in LECO-treated TOPCon solar cells after temperature and bias treatment. The scientists said they now need to ...