Werner As I understand it, IST and T-cycling give similar but not necessarily identical results that prohibit making such statements as X IST cycles is equivalent to Y T-cycles. Is that right? My question is how certain are we of the correlation between either method and actual board performance. Mike McMaster RF Product Engineer Merix Corporation 503-992-4263 > ---------- > From: Werner Engelmaier[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] > Reply To: TechNet E-Mail Forum.;[log in to unmask] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:50 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [TN] Interconnect Stress Testing > > Hi Paul & Valerie, > IST has been qualitatively correlated to the results of T-cycling, > however,a > quantitative correlation is still lacking. By no means has IST "been > thorougly > modeled and been benchmarked to other standard stress tests." The > necessary > work to obtain the needed data has simply not been done. One effort > published > turned out to have data that clearly were incorrect. > > Regards, > Werner Engelmaier, Chairman, IPC Reliability Committee > > --------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest > Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives > Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 > ext.5315 > ----------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8e To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 -----------------------------------------------------