Scientists working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have taken many of the lessons learned during their exhaustive analysis of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans flood defenses and ...

Motion System Design turns to industry experts for some tips on how to get long life and high reliability from a design. MANNING/OMRON: Historically, lifetime has meant decades of service for ...

Context-aware checks integrate physical and electrical information to evaluate a wide range of design conditions, from advanced design rule compliance, to circuit and reliability verification, to ...

Faster processors, lowered power targets and shrinking technology have increased the complexity of integrated circuit (IC) reliability analysis. With the 20nm node becoming mainstream, IC design teams ...

Process industries need accurate, real-time control systems that are failure-proof and degradation-resistant, emphasizing design and component choices within cost limits. When it comes to ...

The impact of materials on designing reliable devices. How packaging plays an important role in SiC MOSFET design. Determining the FIT rate for SiC MOSFETs. There’s no doubt that the material ...

Since deterministic optimum designs obtained without considering uncertainty lead to unreliable designs, it is vital to develop design methods that take account of the input uncertainty. When the ...