Patent Document ID: 8275575
Application ID: 12408401
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for selecting a particular component from a plurality of possible components, wherein the particular component is utilized in an electronic system, the method comprising: performing, with a processor, accelerated life tests on the plurality of possible components resulting in accelerated life data for each possible component; determining, with a processor, the type of statistical distribution of each accelerated life data set, and if a distribution is an unbounded distribution; determining, with a processor, a failure rate by re-sampling the unbounded distributed accelerated life data; and providing the particular component for use in the electronic system if the failure rate is below a threshold failure rate; wherein re-sampling the unbounded distributed accelerated life data further comprises: subdividing, with a processor, the accelerated life data into a plurality of sub datasets; selecting, with a processor, the maximum accelerated life data point from each sub dataset, wherein the selected maximums form a maximum dataset; and fitting, with a processor, the maximum dataset to a Largest Extreme Value distribution.