IC components reliability concerns for avionics end-users

Safety-critical and dependable systems are an important part of our daily life. Every day we rely on the expertise of embedded systems engineers that have produced controllers for our aircraft, the braking control in our cars or the control systems used in our railway systems. Nowadays, Avionics community and other high reliability users of advanced microelectronic products face many challenges as technology scales into Deep Sub-Micron (DSM) feature sizes [1, 2]. In this paper we will go through the different concerns introduce by Semiconductor technology evolution and their impact for Avionics' equipment suppliers.