THEME: Why do this? An abbreviated view of how to do it A recent article in Bloomberg/Business Week (Dec 10-16, 2012) interview by Josh Tyrangiel of Apple's CEO Tim Cook noted a key point in business practice/philosophy: "There are always things unknowable - if we are finding zero issues, our performance bar is in the wrong place" WHY THINK THIS WAY? You need to improve - it must be a way of business performance in all areas People, knowkedge, & technology/information There is a need to understand your business performance attitude (Change it or Perish) HOW? (An abbreviated view) Understand Value Analysis Identify your Competitive Advantage (Quality, Availability, Flexibility, Cost) Tool to employ (System Audit) Practice Need a champion/advocate Establish measurements Use …
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Continuous Improvement – Supplier Development
Continuous Improvement (CI) is a driving force in business. However, how do we go about obtaining such from our Suppliers? What do we, as customers, do to define such to our suppliers - the expectations of improved quality, delivery service, and cost reduction? What is done to aide the supplier in the pursuit of CI? What steps can we take to ensure we are the track to improving our performance via compliance of our suppliers? …
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Soft Error Rate Count
Moshe Valdman from Israel wrote this question: In a telecom system we have many memories and FPGAs Theoretically we should have quite high failure rate related to "single event upset". I suspect we indeed have such failures, but these could also be just SW "bugs". I have difficult time convincing developers to add ECC, CRC, parity and other means to correct or at least detect such temporary failures. Can you share ideas on how to estimate actual field failures rate related to SEUs and how to quantify the cost? Charlie Slayman, our Ops SER Expert wrote back: Yes, you will have soft errors if you have memory and FPGAs. Typical rates for SRAM and flops vary between 100 to 1000 FIT per Mb or Mflop. DRAM rates are much lower, around 100 FIT/Gb. Check out Slide 25 of my …
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