Showing papers in "Microelectronics Reliability in 1990"

TL;DR: In this paper, an end-of-package anchoring device was proposed for rigidly fixing a semiconductor package to a circuit board such that each lead is in compressive contact with its associated mounting pad on the board.

TL;DR: The topic of common-cause failures is discussed and an extensive list of selective references on the subject is presented.

TL;DR: An S-shaped software reliability growth model (SRGM) based on a non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) with two types of errors with the optimum release policies obtained which minimize the cost subject to achieving a given level of reliability.

TL;DR: Some of the fundamental properties of a threshold system are listed, and a recursive algorithm for computing the exact system reliability is presented, and extension to the multi-threshold case is also discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, an AC resistometric technique is proposed, which allows the detection of very small resistance changes in the early stages of the electromigration process, and the validity of the Matthiessen's rule for the interpretation of electromigration data is studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reliability characteristics of a parallel system attended by a single repair facility and general failure and repair time probability distribution functions are studied, and the authors compare some of the results presented in previous literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, an explicit closed-form formula for the optimal k in k-out-of-n systems consisting of i.i.d. components is derived and analyzed.

TL;DR: The extended use of electronic equipment in controlling automatic machines has increased the need to evaluate the safety and security of the system as effectively as possible, and this is one of the main ressons for starting the generation of this computer program as a tool for FMEA of electronic circuits.

TL;DR: In this article, the availability of the urea synthesis process in the fertilizer industry is discussed, where failure and repair rates are taken to be constant and a simple probability analysis of the problem is carried out using simple probability considerations.

TL;DR: A reliability of a k-out-of-N:G redundant system with common-cause failures, critical human errors and r repair facilities with steady-state availability is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, a wet chemical process is described for the formation of sloped window edges in the selective etching of SiO2 film, and the variation of the etch rate with the temperature of the buffered hydrofluoric acid etchant is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method and apparatus for process control in both the production of uniform material layers using vapor deposition, sputtering, chemical deposition, etc. and the treating of material layers.

TL;DR: The two-unit warm standby system as described by Birolini is considered and the system's reliability when all probability distributions involved are general is studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, an exposition is made of the method of moments for the uncertainty analysis of fault trees with statistically correlated failure data, and exact formulas for the mean and variance of the top-event probability, as well as accurate formulas for its third and fourth central moments, are derived.

TL;DR: The role of reliability technology in the sugar industry is discussed in this paper, where the failure rate for each subsystem is taken to be constant, whereas the repair rates are variable and the analysis is carried out using a supplementary variable technique.

TL;DR: In this paper, a system consisting of two identical units is considered, one operating as a cold standby unit and the other as a repairable unit, and the reliability characteristics of these two units are evaluated.

TL;DR: Guidelines for establishing human error data banks are presented along with human performance data collection methods and a comprehensive list of human errorData banks and sources is given.

TL;DR: In this paper, the reliability analysis of a simple nonredundant digital system, Simplex System, with repair is used to illustrate the neural network approach, which is realized using feed-forward recursive neural network.

TL;DR: The proposed method for reliability evaluation has been implemented on a computer and results obtained are compared with the existing methods for the two state model conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a policy of periodic replacement with minimal repair at failure is considered for the multi-unit system which have the specific multivariate distribution, where the system is replaced at multiples of some period T while minimal repair is performed at any intervening component failures.

TL;DR: An algorithm, proposed to enumerate minimal cutsets of an acyclic directed graph with adjacent nodes, is shown to hold for an undirected one with some modifications; the second one is for finding minimal cutset of a general undirecting graph, which holds good for a directed one as well.

TL;DR: In this paper, a class of new methods to evaluate bounds of the reliability polynomial coefficients is proposed, enumerating progressively simple paths or p-acyclic subgraphs finding for each new term a closer lower bound.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of electron and hole injection from neighboring structures on the latch-up hardness of an inverter in non-epitaxial CMOS is measured on specially designed test structures and compared with the results of two-dimensional numerical simulation provided by the program BAMBI.

TL;DR: In this paper, a single server two-unit (one priority and the other ordinary) cold standby system with two modes (normal and total failure) is analyzed, where the repair time distribution is affected by such conditions.

TL;DR: A new composite pseudo random number generator called the Composite Sherif-Dear (CSD) generator is developed that satisfies stringent theoretical criteria for the quality of the sequence it produces and is easy to understand and implement in a portable way.

TL;DR: In this paper, an inspection policy for an n-unit parallel redundant system which is checked at successive times x (k=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28

TL;DR: In this article, profit analysis of a single-server two-unit (one priority and the other ordinary) cold standby system with two modes (normal and total failure) is presented. And various reliability characteristics are obtained to carry out the cost-benefit analysis and numerical results pertaining to particular cases are also presented.

TL;DR: There are three methods developed in this paper, one of which is a heuristic, based on component reliability importance, which involves enumeration of all possible allocations of a given number of i.i.d. components.

TL;DR: Over the past few years, phase-locked clocks have emerged as the leading contender for hardware-based, fault-tolerant synchronization.

TL;DR: A number of formulae combining availability/generalized availability measures with the number of failures or repairs for a two-unit standby system are presented.