NXP Semiconductors’ HEF4000 series is one of the of the oldest CMOS logic families but are still widely used in many new designs because of its wide operating voltage, low power consumption, and ...

In order to proactively handle potential process or product errors before they occur in manufacturing or on a customer’s production line, many organizations implement a Failure Mode and Effects ...

If you’ve ever had to create a Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA), you know how difficult and painstaking a task it can be. But FMEDAs are essential in ensuring that your SoCs ...

Failure Mode, Mechanism and Effect Analysis (FMMEA) is a reliability analysis method which is used to study possible failure modes, failure mechanisms of each component, and to identify the effects of ...

1. FMEA and its variations. When an FMEA has its failure modes prioritized according to their importance, the process is called failure modes, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA). When an FMEA ...

A Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a “bottom-up” type of system analysis that is required for the standards certification of functional safety: IEC 61508 and all the standards deriving from ...

No public official envisions his or her career being defined by a spectacular failure that occurs when something or someone drops between the cracks of a government organization's processes. Yet ...