Reliability is an essential scientific and technological domain intrinsically linked with system integration. Nowadays, semiconductor industries are confronted ever-increasing design complexity, dramatically decreasing margins, increasing chances for consequences of failures, shortening product development qualification time, difficulties to meet quality, robustness, reliability requirements. T...

Reliability allocation has an essential connection to design for reliability and is an important activity in the product design and development process. In determining the reliability of subsystems or components on the basis of goal reliability, attention must be paid to failure effect, failure information, and improvement opportunities based upon real potentials for reliability improvement. In...

the microgrid concept provides attractive solutions for reliability enhancement of power distribution systems. normally, microgrids contain renewable-energy-based distributed generation (dg) units, which their output power varies with different environmental conditions. in addition, load demand usually changes with factors such as hourly and seasonal customer activities. hence, these issues hav...

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2012.06.029 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (H.A.C. Tilmans). This paper reviews various approaches to package MEMS, illustrated mainly with examples from imec. Wafer-level or 0-level packaging is mostly dealt with. The role the package plays in achieving the required performance and r...

Redundancy allocation problem is one of the most important problem in Reliability area. In this problem the reliability and availability of the systems maximized via allocating redundant components to sub-systems. a systems operates normally in its operational mode but fails in either opened or shorted modes. this paper presents a repairable k_out_of_n systems network model with common cause fa...