Category: Hardware
Product Number: DS2143
I'm relatively new to "reliability" calculations and I am not sure that this is the correct forum for this question but it seems to be a good place to start. Here is my question: Integrated Circuits have a variety of temperature ratings; commercial, industrial, military (and probably some others I'm missing. The question is this: Is there a rule of thumb for maintaining, increasing or decreasing reliability on the actual operating temperature vs the RATED max temperature. I.e. if I run a device with a max commercial rating of 70C at an actual temp of 50C, what is the reliability increase? Or am I thinking about this incorrectly?