MCL together with AT&S organized a WP3 workshop within the iRel40 project, all about “Advanced and functional materials and interfaces for enhanced reliability”. The workshop had the aim of reviewing and discussing all the achievements, the lessons learned, the challenges, and the future perspectives of the project.
This year the 24th International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems took place in Graz, Austria, between 16th and 19th of April 2023. The conference is fully in line with the development targets of the iRel40 project. More than 160 participants, one of the largest audience the conference ever had, discussed their latest results with special focus for impact on reliability improvement.
The internal stresses within microelectronic packages are influenced by package design, materials used, assembly processes, and environmental aging effects. In the iRel40 project, Sensitec and Infineon utilized the stress measurement chip in different packages to address distinct concerns.
IKERLAN is working within iRel40 project on the validation of a holistic reliability management approach that ensure optimal performance of critical assets over their lifetime in different operational contexts. The methodology is being piloted through an agent-based simulation model which studies the impact of reliability on tram services under different operating contexts, with the aim of optimizing the balance between availability and LCC.
iRel40 consortium members Infineon Austria (www.infineon.com/austria), KAI (www.k-ai.at), and UCLM (www.uclm.es) have prepared a video describing the development of a deep learning pipeline for automated defect classification. Automatic classification provides objective results and has an extremely positive effect on workflow efficiency, hence, becoming increasingly important. However, developing deep learning pipelines for productive environments is challenging since real-world datasets are most often small and highly imbalanced.