High-profile software failures, which were in abundance last year, will push adoption of application lifecycle management in 2014, analyst firm IDC predicts. Many companies cover a portion of the ...

Failure analysis labs are becoming more fab-like, offering higher accuracy in locating failures and accelerating time-to-market of new devices. These labs historically have been used for ...

These developments continue to fuel growing investment into the technology and manufacture of semiconductor devices at both industrial and academic research levels. Improvements in technology, ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. How can software and the systems that rely on it be made dependable in a ...

The first step for semiconductor chips is visual inspection using an optical microscope or electrical measurements. 2 Mechanical probing, electron beams, emission microscopy, liquid crystal, etc., are ...

Analyzing failures in printed circuit boards (PCBs) is critical to ensure the functionality and reliability of electronic devices. A synopsis of the methods and techniques utilized in PCB failure ...