The definition of reliability hasn’t budged since the invention of the IC, but how to achieve it is starting to change.
In safety-critical systems, as well as in markets such as aerospace, demands for reliability are so rigorous that they often require redundant circuitry—and for good reason. A PanAmSat malfunction in 1998 caused by tin whisker growth wiped out pagers for 45 million use...
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