From 022d3acda7260a9eb785148d034c24e8168692b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Clark Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:41:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] exponential, trad FMEA, to polynomial running order with FMMD --- submission_thesis/CH1_introduction/copy.tex | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/submission_thesis/CH1_introduction/copy.tex b/submission_thesis/CH1_introduction/copy.tex index 7132d32..60c8f59 100644 --- a/submission_thesis/CH1_introduction/copy.tex +++ b/submission_thesis/CH1_introduction/copy.tex @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Blanket measures, RAM ROM checks, EMC, electrical and environmental stress testi \subsection{Practical limitations of testing for certification vs. rigorous approach} State explosion problem considering a failure mode of a given component against -all other components in the system. +all other components in the system i.e. an exponential (2^N) order of processing resource rather than a ploynomial i.e. N^2. Impossible to perform double simultaneous failure analysis (as demanded by EN298~\cite{en298}).