Microelectronics Reliability

Abstract

In this research, an innovative and practical way to use the various physics of failure equations is shown together with accelerated testing for reliability prediction of devices exhibiting multiple failure mechanisms. Also presented was an integrated accelerating and measuring platform to be implemented inside FPGA chips, making the MTOL testing more accurate, allowing these tests at the chip and perhaps at the system level, rather than only at the transistor level. The calibration of physics models with highly accelerated testing of complete commercial devices allows for actual reliability prediction. The MTOL Matrix can provide information about the proportional effect of each failure mechanism; allowing extrapolation of the expected reliability of the device under various conditions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 17, 2017
Accession Number
AD1025465

Entities

People

  • Clay Mayberry
  • Joseph Bernstein

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerated Testing
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Contracts
  • Electronics
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Ionizing Radiation
  • Measurement
  • Microelectronics
  • Reliability
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Spacecraft
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems