Since the invention of the integrated circuit, reliability has been defined by how long a chip continues to work. It either turned on and did what it was designed to do, or it didn’t. But that ...

Conditioned by recent marketing efforts, here’s what comes to mind when one hears the term reliability: physical assets, reliability engineering terms such as mean-time-between-failure, and ...

In order to set the stage for our readers we would like to define some basic terms used in this text. A system is any composite of hardware or software items that work together to perform a mission or ...

“You know, brain surgery’s not difficult if you don’t care whether the person dies, it’s actually quite easy. Flying a plane is quite easy if you don’t mind crashing. That’s what hard means. It’s an ...