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 ...

Motion System Design turns to industry experts for some tips on how to get long life and high reliability from a design. MANNING/OMRON: Historically, lifetime has meant decades of service for ...

Scientists working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have taken many of the lessons learned during their exhaustive analysis of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans flood defenses and ...

Context-aware checks integrate physical and electrical information to evaluate a wide range of design conditions, from advanced design rule compliance, to circuit and reliability verification, to ...

The impact of materials on designing reliable devices. How packaging plays an important role in SiC MOSFET design. Determining the FIT rate for SiC MOSFETs. There’s no doubt that the material ...

In the fast-paced world of semiconductor design, achieving both Design Rule Check (DRC) clean layouts and optimal electrical performance is crucial for minimizing design iterations, reducing ...

Since deterministic optimum designs obtained without considering uncertainty lead to unreliable designs, it is vital to develop design methods that take account of the input uncertainty. When the ...