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Automated Schematic Review Driven by Electrical Stress Analysis

Many engineers spend most of their time working on electronic board development, including functional specifications, design, simulations, and testing of the product. How sure are you that your product is robust and reliable?

At a glance

  • Many engineers spend most of their time working on electronic board development, including functional specifications, design, simulations, and testing of the product.
  • How sure are you that your product is robust and reliable?
  • Due to market pressure and the lack of tools, hidden design errors remain undetected.

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Many engineers spend most of their time working on electronic board development, including functional specifications, design, simulations, and testing of the product.

How sure are you that your product is robust and reliable?

Due to market pressure and the lack of tools, hidden design errors remain undetected. Sometimes, it does not take a long time until the customer uncovers some errors. That seriously affects the company’s reputation and incurs financial losses.

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Frequently asked questions

Why do hidden design errors survive to production?
Market pressure plus the lack of tools to find them. Engineers spend their time on specification, design, simulation and testing, and errors that none of those steps surface stay in the design until a customer finds them.
What does it cost when the customer finds the error first?
Damage to the company’s reputation as well as direct financial loss — which is what makes the errors caught before shipping worth the analysis that caught them.

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Republished from https://www.bqr.com/blog/automated-schematic-reviewdriven-by-electrical-stress-analysis. BQR Reliability Engineering Ltd.