Virtual Qualification and

Reliability Assessment

Course Overview
Course Outline
Past Customers
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Course Overview

This course (Component level and PCB level) will provide the attendees with the knowledge necessary to apply such a methodology to the qualification of components and the reliability assessment of electronic systems. Each section provides introduction to physics-of-failure based virtual qualification and application specific reliability assessment. The course will demonstrate how to use manufacturer's test data together with failure modeling to qualify a component for use in a particular application. The course will also demonstrate the application of this virtual qualification technique to the insertion of commercial components into high-temperature, high-power, automotive, and avionic applications. The use of virtual qualification for building reliability into power modules will also be discussed. The course will conclude with a discussion of the probabilistic nature of reliability assessment and with a demonstration of computer-aided tools for virtual qualification and application-specific reliability assessment.

 

Course Outline

1. Introduction  

2. Failure Mechanisms and Models

      • Board Level   
      • Component Level  

3. Life Cycle Loads and Load Transformation

      • Life Cycle Loads   
      • Thermal    
      • Vibration 

4. Virtual Qualification 

5. VQ Examples

    • Board Level   
    • Component Level   

 

Past Customers

  • British Aerospace - United Kingdom
  • Compaq Computers - Texas
  • General Motors - Michigan
  • Honeywell - Arizona
  • CanadaSmiths Industries - Michigan
  • Visteon Automotive Systems - Michigan

*This course has also been presented as a public offering in College Park, MD.*

 

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Contact

Michael Pecht
301-405-5323
education@calce.umd.edu
Bldg. 89, Room 1103
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742


 

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