Abstract:
This report presents a process to assess the reliability of electronic parts. The information obtained during a reliability assessment may be used to identify and rank potential failure mechanisms, compare competing designs, and make business decisions addressing warranty periods and required spare procurement. Because reliability assessment is by definition an application-specific process, the assessment results are applicable only to the given application. If the part’s application-specific reliability meets the requirements, it is accepted for the given application; if the application-reliability requirements are not met, the part is rejected for the given application from the reliability perspective.
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