Mean time between failure made easy: Dan Swiger provides an almost 'no-sweat' guide to adding MTBF software to your design

摘要

In addition to size, weight, and power constraints, reliability is a key requirement of many embedded systems. A common way of measuring a design's product reliability is the mean time between failure (MTBF) calculation. Being able to accurately measure and report a product's MTBF has advantages: customers are generally willing to pay more for a product they can depend on and will purchase again from companies that produce reliable products.