The Future of HALT
Abstract
Kirk and Fred discuss the future of Highly Accelerated Limit Testing (HALT), which is not a life test, despite its initial designation.
Key Points
Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss how HALT may evolve in the future with the combination of AI.
Topics include:
- First, Fred and I would like to find a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) willing to discuss the responsibilities and challenges of an SRE. If you are interested, please contact Fred using the links provided on this website.
- The future of HALT, combined with the power of AI, will likely be more useful and be able to monitor many more combinations of systems’ parametric shifts in operation during the increases in stress, leading to better isolation of the weaknesses in a design.
- AI will be able to create and analyze more combinations of stress, such as voltage margins and bus clock speeds during thermal stress, and develop a higher resolution operational signature that can be monitored as an ongoing reliability audit or system health prognostics.
- When someone says, “We tried HALT but did not find anything,” they don’t understand the process of HALT and the data derived from it.
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Show Notes
Please click on this link to access a relatively new analysis of traditional reliability prediction methods article from the US ARMY and CALCE titled “Reliability Prediction – Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”. It is in the public domain, so please feel free to distribute it. Attempting to predict reliability is a misleading and costly approach to use for developing a reliable system.
Here is a link to the book “Next Generation HALT and HASS: Robust design of Electronics and Systems,” written by Kirk Gray and John Paschkewitz. It can also be found on Amazon Books at this link.
During the discussion about the future of HALT – there was a conversation about how you potentially have multiple acceleration factors at the same time, and how do you unpick these to understand what is happening – As I was listening I thought this sounds like a design of experiments problem with regression anaysis of the results, I am not sure of the practicallities not being a HALT user but it seems to be something worth exploring.
As always an interesting and though provoking podcast – Thank you