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Component Reliability Tutorial
Reliability of a component is finding out the probability that the component will perform under
it’s normal operating conditions for a set period of time. Reliability therefore, can be shown as
a probability distribution as shown in Figure 1.
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Cumulative
failures (%)
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Time t
Figure 1 Graph showing the probability distribution for a semiconductor device. The
graph shows a number of failures at low t (Infant Mortality). Towards the end of life
there is a large increas