Monday, March 25, 2019

• 8am - 5pm
• Presentations include:
  • Case Study: How Continental Automotive is Integrating Sherlock into their Design Process
  • What’s New with Sherlock?
  • Will Your Battery Protection System and UL Test Prevent Catastrophic Li Ion Failures?
  • DfX in Electronics Packaging
  • Warranty-Reliability-Durability: How Optimal+/Sherlock Allow for Comprehensive Prediction Throughout the Product Lifecycle
  • Case Study: Solder Fatigue Model Verification using NAND BGAs
  • Best Practices in Reliability Management of Consumer Electronics
  • Electrical Overstress (EOS) in Semiconductors: An Introduction to Electrically Induced Physical Damage

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

• 8am - 5pm
• Presentations include:
  • How to Implement a Proactive Approach to Identifying Reliability Risks
  • Using Simulation to Optimize Microvia Placement and Materials to Avoid Failures During Reflow
  • A Corporate-Level Process Flow to Ensure Quality and Reliability
  • Case Study: Using RPA to Predict Thermal Cycling BGA Failures for Aircraft Engines
  • How to Use Sherlock to Perform a Pre-HALT
  • Accurately Capturing System-Level Failures of Solder Joints (Underfill, Mirroring, Housing)
  • Reliable Sensors Engineering: Key Enabler for Commercial Autonomous Vehicles
  • How to Successfully Implement J3168 SAE Standards in Your Supply Chain
  • Understanding and Mitigating Chip-Package-Board Interactions (CPBI)

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Track 1
Sherlock Automated Design Analysis™ Software Advanced Users Technical Training

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

• Starting a Sherlock project: Defining Lifecycles, Critical Components, and Mechanical Loading.
• Solving Thermal Mechanical and ICT problems, one Sherlock project at a time
• Live Demo: Your Sherlock projects, reviewed live!
• Q&A Ask Us Anything

Track 2
How to Qualify Your Batteries to Prevent Failures & Thermal Events
Instructor: Vidyu Challa, PhD, Technical Director, DfR Solutions

9:00 am - 12:00 pm

The rising demand for Internet of things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) applications makes battery power an absolute necessity. However, reports about lithium-ion batteries exploding and catching fire continue to draw the public’s attention. How do you balance the need for power, size, cost, and time-to-market, while still avoiding being the lead story on the evening news?

Is it enough to qualify a cell manufacturer according to industry standards? The answer is that the majority of compliance-based testing is related to abuse tolerance. However, the vast majority of field failures do not occur under abuse scenarios, but happen under normal operating conditions due to manufacturing flaws or design and system tolerance issues that cause internal shorts. Internal shorts are unfortunately not mitigated by safety electronics.

In this battery workshop, you:

• Gain an understanding of lithium-ion battery failure mechanisms and the pathway to thermal runaway events
• Learn about the top causes of battery field failures, and the major areas where you need to have mitigation strategies
• Learn how cell design plays a critical role in battery safety and reliability, and what you can do from a design perspective to prevent these failures
• Learn the basic steps in a lithium-ion cell manufacturing process, and the process controls required to ensure cell safety and reliability
• Learn about the battery management system and its role in system safety
• Come away with a checklist of things you should do to qualify your cell manufacturer – pass down requirements, trust but verify (design, manufacturing, compliance-based testing, system-level tolerances, application-specific battery testing, battery management system, cell CT scans and teardowns and lastly user education)