Re:The Race to Zero Defects in Auto ICs
by orangepurple on Thursday June 09, 2022 @03:31AM
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Define "everyone"
Re:The Race to Zero Defects in Auto ICs
by londons_explore on Thursday June 09, 2022 @04:13AM
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Every big electronics shop will have a failure team with an electron microscope able to decap any faulty chip and figure out which mosfet has blown up.
It's time consuming expensive work though, so smaller places just replace the faulty parts or revise the design and hope.
Re:The Race to Zero Defects in Auto ICs
by otter-rock on Thursday June 09, 2022 @09:40AM
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The categories mentioned in the quoted comments - semiconductor, defense, and car companies. Also others too, like industrial and certain consumer appliances and electronics. Search job listings for electronics failure analysis to get an idea. Their job is to find the failure mechanism so the design team knows what to change.
What drives up quality is cost of defects to the manufacturer. Cost battlegrounds change over time. Currently, some of the big ones are in electronic parts elimination and reliability.
> It's rare to see a transistor opened up today to see what went wrong.
Literally everyone cuts open their electronics nowadays. You don't see it because there's no longer any need to complain about it.