Demand for lower defect rates and higher yields is increasing, in part because chips are now being used for safety- and mission-critical applications, and in part because it’s a way of offsetting ...

Circuit aging is emerging as a mandatory design concern across a swath of end markets, particularly in markets where advanced-node chips are expected to last for more than a few years. Some chipmakers ...

Reliability and safety are two inter-relatable terms that define the overall effectiveness of any working system ― be it an electrical system, mechanical system, or a combination of both. The concept ...

DALLAS — Reliability experts are waving red flags about a little understood problem — negative bias temperature instability — that can cause significant delays to CMOS circuits. The delays increase ...

When a global medical device company needed help setting up a reliability program, Marie Getsug was up for the task. As a program manager of strategic consulting for asset management at Jacobs ...

Every technology executive remembers the incident that changed how they think about reliability. Not a blip on a dashboard. Not a P2 bumped to P1 during a Monday morning review. The one that brought ...

Greg Evans, CEO of WelComm Inc. and PSMA Marketing Committee member, contributed to this article. For nearly two decades now, digital implementations of power-supply designs have been implemented in ...