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Failure probability estimation under additional subsystem information with application to semiconductor burn-in

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  • D. Kurz
  • H. Lewitschnig
  • J. Pilz

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In the classical approach to qualitative reliability demonstration, system failure probabilities are estimated based on a binomial sample drawn from the running production. In this paper, we show how to take account of additional available sampling information for some or even all subsystems of a current system under test with serial reliability structure. In that connection, we present two approaches, a frequentist and a Bayesian one, for assessing an upper bound for the failure probability of serial systems under binomial subsystem data. In the frequentist approach, we introduce (i) a new way of deriving the probability distribution for the number of system failures, which might be randomly assembled from the failed subsystems and (ii) a more accurate estimator for the Clopper–Pearson upper bound using a beta mixture distribution. In the Bayesian approach, however, we infer the posterior distribution for the system failure probability on the basis of the system/subsystem testing results and a prior distribution for the subsystem failure probabilities. We propose three different prior distributions and compare their performances in the context of high reliability testing. Finally, we apply the proposed methods to reduce the efforts of semiconductor burn-in studies by considering synergies such as comparable chip layers, among different chip technologies.

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  • D. Kurz & H. Lewitschnig & J. Pilz, 2017. "Failure probability estimation under additional subsystem information with application to semiconductor burn-in," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 44(6), pages 955-967, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:44:y:2017:i:6:p:955-967
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1189522
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