Reliability and Accelerated Testing of RF and Electronic Assemblies

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The contents of the same are given below:

1. Reliability and its requirement

2. Reliability Vs. Quality Control

3. The bathtub Curve

4. Accelerated Tests

       4.1 Accelerated Life Testing

      4.2 Reliability Enhancement Testing

      4.3 Environmental Stress Screening

5. Environmental Stress Screening

       5.1 The Environment

          5.1.1 Temperature Tests

          5.1.2 Atmospheric

          5.1.3 Radiation

          5.1.4 Dynamic Testing

      5.2 The Objective of ESS

          5.2.1 Burn-in

      5.3 Application of ESS in Manufacturing flow

      5.4 ESS Implementation:

          5.4.1 Types of Failures detectable by various environments

          5.4.2 Differences in the screening of components and equipment

          5.4.3 Design of Screens: Important points

          5.4.4 Effect of Temperature and Humidity on

                            on some electronic components

          5.4.5 Reduction or Elimination of ESS

      5.5 Case study

      5.6 Screening Effectiveness



6. Reliability Handbooks

7. Glossary of Terms

8. References

9. Related standards