Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments provides a nice and useful webinterface to access their reliability data. This interface is used to get the reliability data. In order to keep a nicer interface to the user, no interaction with the TI website is needed, this is done within the source code. To create a new component from TI use IC_TI(std::string name, std::string type);. For example IC_TI("U1", "LM75"); will create a new component and get all the data from the TI webpage.

In order to be able to operate the whole software offline, a database is automaticly created and filled with the data from TI's webpage. Before searching at TI's webpage, this database is used to get all neccessary values. Only for the missing components the internet is used. Once you have got all data in the database, no internet connection is needed anymore.

Note: From time to time the reliability data is updated by TI. In order to use the new information, simply delete the TI.db and re-run the program. This will recreate the database with the latest reliability information.