Know Your Safety Application Notes (Part 3): Pin FMEA (Download)
Part 3 is the last part in this article series discussing how Analog Devices’ safety application notes provide critical information needed for technical safety analysis by system integrators designing safety-related systems (SRS). Part 1 showed how such application notes contain an IC’s failure rate based on Arrhenius high temperature operating life (HTOL), SN 29500, and IEC 62380. Part 2 revealed how relevant failure modes can be captured in a failure-mode distribution (FMD).
This final part offers insights into an IC’s pin failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) when designing a safety-related system. It also gets into how such pin FMEA information is available in ADI’s safety application notes.