Help on design of experiment

[nilanjan das]

I want to test for the reliaability of FPGAs(Field Programmable Gate Arrays) using accelarated life testing. give me somebody some ideas how to go about it. how do i plan the experiment first?

[Tarik]

Hi,

This a reference that discusses Reliability Testing
http://www.weibull.com/Articles/RelIntro/Reliability_Testing.htm ,
It’s part of an introductory reference called “The Blueprint for Implementing a Comprehensive Reliability Engineering Program”, which you can find at http://www.weibull.com/Articles/RelIntro/index.htm

The following link describes a Design of Reliability Testing (DRT) tool that is part of the Weibull++ software package
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue24/relbasics24.htm

ReliaSoft also has a DRT tool (part of the RGA software package) that can be used in Reliability Growth analysis for developmental stage testing

I hope this helps.