The plan for ongoing reliability testing of production material, sampling wafers or packaged units at set intervals to confirm that reliability stays at the qualified level over time.
Plan Work product in the Process technology (node) lifecycle and the Package technology development lifecycle
It detects reliability drift in production before it reaches customers in volume. Slow shifts from materials, tools or changes otherwise pass unnoticed until field returns rise.
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