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

Automating Failure Mode Analysis For Automotive Safety

If you’ve ever had to create a Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA), you know how difficult and painstaking a task it can be. But FMEDAs are essential in ensuring that your SoCs ...
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 ...
Network World

Real-world disk failure rates: surprises, surprises, and more surprises

Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks can be expected to fail each year. But data collected from 100,000 installed disks says otherwise. Disk manufacturers say that less than 1% of disks ...