Title :
Soft failures and reliability
Author_Institution :
Westinghouse Electr. Corp., Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstract :
Soft failure is defined in terms of event, and a definition of its repair is provided to clarify the nature of its recovery to a successful system performance are given. An analysis of some 30 failure modes with their taxonomy, classification, and causality is presented. A general reliability-modeling technique is proposed which permits the analyst to characterize the reliability solution based on the definition of soft failure. An example based on recent findings in the area of recovery-block schemes is presented
Keywords :
failure analysis; reliability; causality; classification; recovery-block schemes; reliability; repair; soft failures; taxonomy; Embedded software; Equations; Error correction codes; Failure analysis; Hardware; Logic devices; Software maintenance; Software testing; System recovery; Taxonomy;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, 1990. Proceedings., Annual
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
DOI :
10.1109/ARMS.1990.67995
