Coming back from the Design Automation Conference (DAC), my head is swimming with acronyms. In fact, most people refer to the conference by its acronym instead of its full name. I believe as long as ...

Assessing the reliability of a device requires adding more physical factors into the analysis, many of which are interconnected in complex ways. Chip aging is a growing problem at advanced nodes, but ...

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 ...

How can systems be designed to guard against unexpected downtime? How does system reliability impact product development? In what ways can artificial intelligence and machine learning improve system ...

A new software tool introduced on Monday by Synopsys promises to improve the reliability and safety of chips designed for areas ranging from automotive and medical to the aerospace and defense sectors ...

The problem is, there’s no guarantee that the message will get delivered,” says Anne Thomas Manes, an analyst at Burton Group in Midvale, Utah. “It offers 92% to 96% reliability, but if you need 99.9% ...

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 ...