When a chip malfunctions it’s the job of the failure analysis engineer to determine how it failed or significantly deviated from its key performance metrics. The cost of failure in the field can be ...

High-profile software failures, which were in abundance last year, will push adoption of application lifecycle management in 2014, analyst firm IDC predicts. Many companies cover a portion of the ...

The first step for semiconductor chips is visual inspection using an optical microscope or electrical measurements. 2 Mechanical probing, electron beams, emission microscopy, liquid crystal, etc., are ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. How can software and the systems that rely on it be made dependable in a ...

Analyzing failures in printed circuit boards (PCBs) is critical to ensure the functionality and reliability of electronic devices. A synopsis of the methods and techniques utilized in PCB failure ...

Airbus A350-1000 operators are set to be told to install updated flight-control and avionics software to reduce risk associated with oscillatory failure cases affecting the rudder. Oscillatory failure ...