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Reliability of Electronic Components

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Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems

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Electronics is the study of charge flow through various materials and devices, such as semiconductors, resistors, inductors, capacitors, nano-structures, and vacuum tubes [1]. The electronic component is any indivisible electronic building block packaged in a discrete form with two or more connected leads or metallic pads. The components are intended to be connected together, usually by soldering to a printed circuit board, to create an electronic circuit with a particular function. The representative electronic components are integrated circuits (microprocessors, RAM), resistors, capacitors, and diodes. These electronic components are the major hardware components making up digital systems.

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Choi, J., Seong, P. (2009). Reliability of Electronic Components. In: Seong, P. (eds) Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-384-2_1

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