Hi Earl,
>They said, to someone else, there is a program that imports test data
directly
>from component supplier data sheets, or the stuff that went into them, and
>renders long term reliability data from them, or some such thing.
I would not trust data from component supplier data sheets--too many bad
experiences, because they generally do not know what they are doing.
Furthermore, I have yet to see the test parameters described to uinderstand
what these data actually could mean. This is the prime reason for IPC-9701.

Werner

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