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Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Ampro Computers | Subject: CoreModule 800 SBC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 September 2007
Computers handle harsh testing
In tests the CoreModule 800 withstood intense multi-axis vibration of 50G rms while operating over an operating temperature range of -60C to +90C.
Ampro Computers' CoreModule 800 SBC performed well during highly accelerated life testing (Halt) The CoreModule 800 withstood intense multi-axis vibration of 50G rms while operating over an operating temperature range of -60C to +90C
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The purpose of the Halt test is to find the potential weak links in a product design and to determine the true operating and destruct limits.
These limits are measured by using repeatable testing techniques such as thermal step stress, rapid thermal transitions, vibration stress, and combined temperature and vibration environments.
By subjecting a product to increasing levels of stress, long-term failure modes that would show up under normal operating conditions in months or years can be revealed in just hours or days.
Root causes are fed back into the product design, thereby increasing the reliability and the robustness of a design.
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