Innovative methodology for failure rate estimation from quality incidents, for ISO26262 standard requirements

For the new ISO26262 standard deployment into the Automotive industry, failure rate estimation becomes a key issue to design new electronic products. The `IEEE1413.1 Guide for Selecting and Using Reliability Predictions' has identified difficulties to work from field returns. We present an innovative methodology addressing these issues for integrated circuits, using mathematic and statistical tools applied to real data.

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