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This work will educate chip and system designers on a method for accurately predicting circuit and system reliability in order to estimate failures that will occur in the field as… Read more
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Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1. Shortcut to Accurate Reliability Prediction
1.1 Background of FIT
1.2 Multiple Failure Mechanism Model
1.3 Acceleration Factor
1.4 New Proportionality Method
1.5 Chip Designer
1.6 System Designer
Chapter 2. M-HTOL Principles
2.1 Constant Rate Assumption
2.2 Reliability Criteria
2.3 The Failure Rate Curve for Electronic Systems
2.4 Reliability Testing
2.5 Accelerated Testing
Chapter 3. Failure Mechanisms
3.1 Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown
3.2 Hot Carrier Injection
3.3 Negative Bias Temperature Instability
3.4 Electromigration
3.5 Soft Errors Due to Memory Alpha Particles
Chapter 4. New M-HTOL Approach
4.1 Problematic Zero Failure Criteria
4.2 Single Versus Multiple Competing Mechanisms
4.3 AF Calculation
4.4 Electronic System CFR Approximation/Justification
4.5 PoF-Based Circuits Reliability Prediction Methodology
4.6 Cell Reliability Estimation
4.7 Chip Reliability Prediction
4.8 Matrix Method
Bibliography
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