System Component Count is often one of the larger determining factors in system reliability. Let's compare two designs — two done largely with discrete and one done with ICs. In the first version, the ...

Medical system design, perhaps more than any other, generates challenging requirements for passive component performance and reliability, writes Stephen Oxley The great advances of recent years in ...

In space applications, high reliability and risk reduction are always two key considerations. While using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electrical, electronic and electromechanical (EEE) parts may ...

On any given day, a certain percentage of the plastic-encapsulated components passing through an assembly line is defective in some way. The defect is less likely to be a chip-level electrical flaw ...

What are the key factors in optimizing mean time between failure (MTBF)? Developing the best strategy for MTBF. What to look for in MTBF test studies. For designers of engineered electronics powering ...

The use of a component on multiple products within a firm’s product line, such as the brake rotor on a car, is commonly referred to as component sharing. Professors Kamalini Ramdas and Taylor ...

Data center workloads continue to surge due to the rise of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), and, in turn, traditional air-cooling methods are reaching their practical limits. As thermal loads ...

The use of a component on multiple products within a firm’s product line, such as the brake rotor on a car, is commonly referred to as component sharing. Professors Kamalini Ramdas and Taylor ...