A practical MTBF estimate for PCB design considering component and non-component failures

Proceedings - Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 604-610

  Tongdan, Jin ^a   Peng, Wang ^b   Qiyu, Huang ^c  

^a TERADYNE INC   (United States)

^b UNITED TECHNOLOGIES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Mean; MTBF; Non component failure rate; Variance

Indexed keywords

MEAN; MTBF; NON COMPONENT FAILURE RATE; VARIANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VIRUSES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250161280     PISSN: 0149144X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RAMS.2006.1677440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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