presently COTS (commercially off the shelf) components are prefered than MIL approved components, due to cost, availablity and other factors. Environmental steree screening (ESS) is carried out on these components to weed out the infant mortality (i.e. to remove the components which are likely...
Howmany MTBFs can be in Total Technical Life (TTL)of a component. In other words from the given MTBF is it possible to calculate TTL. Please tell me how. Also how to select a component to meet the design life of a electronics system and how to prove it.
