PBA Reliability Seminar

Internet-of-Things, Electronics Everywhere, self-driving cars, body-area-networks monitoring your health, etc. : ever increasing electronics complexity means more opportunities to fail and, therefore, intrinsically a reduced reliability.
During this seminar, Geert Willems of imec-cEDM will explain the “bathtub curve”, take you through failure mechanisms in electronics and show you why and how Physics-of-Failure is becoming the cornerstone of modern reliability engineering.
Content:

1. Failure Probability/Reliability functions: “the bathtub curve”
   – Early failure – constant failure rate – wear-out – meaning of MTTF – Weibull
   – Constant failure rate modeling and why it is not suited for modern electronics.
   – EDM-D-100: Failure opportunities and the reliability function R(T) of a PBA
2. Basics of Physics-of-Failure
   – The failure mechanism – the stress level – from stress to lifetime
   – Accelerated testing: Norris-Landzberg et al. and why this is not Physics-of-Failure.
   – Physics-of-Failure based testing
3. Dominant interconnection failure mechanisms in electronics
   – Solder joint failure
   – PCB via failure
   – Insulation failure: SIR – creep corrosion – (CAF – Sn-whiskers)

Agenda: 

12:45 Registration
13:15 Welcome by Barco (Dora Deboeure)
13:30 Basics in Electronics Reliability (Geert Willems, imec & cEDM)
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Tour in Reliability lab of Barco, Kortrijk
16:00 Experience tour Barco
17:00 Networking drink at the Revo Bar