General Information
A worst case circuit analysis should be performed on all circuitry that is safety and financially critical. Worst case circuit analysis is an analysis technique which, by accounting for component variability, determines the circuit performance under a worst case scenario(Under extreme environmental or operating conditions). Environmental conditions are defined as external stresses applied to each circuit component. It includes temperature,humidity or radiation. Operating conditions include external electrical inputs. Component quality level, interaction between parts, and drift due to component aging.
Links:
Mil-Std 785B has a short section on WCCA http://www.everyspec.com/MIL-STD/MIL-STD-0700-0799/MIL-STD-785B_23780/
DOD has an article covering WCCA http://www.theriac.org/DeskReference/viewDocument.php?id=213#section3
Read more about this topic: Worst-case Circuit Analysis
Famous quotes containing the words general and/or information:
“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality shows that this conception essentially involves the notion of a COMMUNITY, without definite limits, and capable of a definite increase of knowledge.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)