Today, ensuring a design does not have potential reliability problems requires an integrated verification strategy that combines circuit classification, resistance information, current density ...

In the past, the fab hid many of these problems from design teams ... “Aging has long been considered by designers in high-reliability design areas,” says Stephen Crosher, director for SLM strategic ...

On the other, reliability engineers need to address the narrowing electromigration margins and electrostatic discharge design challenges ... heat generated in the 16nm FinFET process is a bigger ...

Likewise, information about failures and customer problems can evaluate a design more accurately than ... In many cases, overdesign is the only option. Reliability is expensive.

That way, you design reliability into the product, not patched on later, when problems arise. Companies practicing design for reliability find that it results in fewer design changes and ...

Design To Improve The End-User Experience ... I balance innovation with reliability by keeping the problem I’m trying to solve first and foremost in mind and focusing my efforts on finding ...