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1. Introduction - Laboratory for Reliable Computing

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Failure• Failure: deviation of a system from itsspecified behavior− Fault → error → failure• Failure mechanism: physical or chemicalprocess that causes devices to malfunction;they manifest themselves on the circuitlevel as failure modes• Failure mode: the cause of rejection offailed device (effect of failure mechanism),such as open/short interconnections, ordegraded parameter valuesm01intro7.02 Cheng-Wen Wu, NTHU 13

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