Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - General Questions
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FIDES is not an acronym. FIDES is the Latin word for "faith" and is the root of the word "fidelity" and of the French word for reliability, "fiabilité".
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Usually yes, but in fact, the industrial has processes wich are always the same and the audit is still valid for products issued from a same family. But an update of the audit is necessary for a new products family.
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The guide covers about 70 - 80% of the components families. The families not treated are the less used but they will be treated as soon as possible.
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Not yet, but it is foreseen.
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A support comittee is foreseen. Models will be updated for the new component families. The methodology has to permit treat new components without wait field returns.
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Yes for the ASIC. Transformers, crystal quartz oscillators on electronic cards are taken in account. The hybrids can be treated as the electronic cards.
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Yes, the FIDES methodology is already a French standard, the UTE C-80811 (http://www.ute-fr.com/), and will be proposed as an international standard.