fiXtress™BQR and Altium CooperationDesign for Reliability capabilities for Altium

Designer

Presentation for Altium Sales

May 2, 2023

AGENDA

1. About BQR 2. fiXtress™ modules3. fiXtress and Altium Integration4. Sales guide lines 5. Q&A

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BQR Profile Founded in Israel at 1989 as a consulting company in the field

of reliability and maintenance engineering More then 2,000 projects and over 120 customers All our software solutions developed based on customers

needs and thousands of successful projects for RAMS &ILS Today the main business of BQR is to develop and sell

software for the EDA market

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Partial Customer Base & Industries

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Industries

• Medical Device• Aerospace &

Defense• Automotive• Railways• Pharmaceutical• Manufacturing• Chemical• Electronics• Oil & Gas• Wind Energy

BQR End to End software solutions

BQR has developed a Line of products for Reliability, Safety and Maintenance

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fiXtress ApmOptimizerCARE Schematic Review Rapid Electrical Stress

Analysis Precise Electrical Stress

Analysis PCB MTBF Prediction Thermal Guidance

MTBF Predictionelectronic & mechanical parts

RBD (Reliability Block Diagram)

FMECA FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) Testability Analysis Safety MTTR MRS (Mechanical Reliability

Simulation)

RAM / LCC Analysis Level Of Repair Analysis Preventive Maintenance Predictive Maintenance Resources Optimization Spares Optimization RCM / MSG-3

Methodology Field Data Analysis

Component/PCB level

Asset level

System level

through up to

Design and Operation – From Design Phase to Service Phase

from

Reliable Product

Optimal Maintena

nce Strategy

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BQR fiXtress full suite include

fiXtress Schematic Review: Detect design errors using “Logical & Parametric

Schematic Verification” 2 Electrical Stress Analysis & Component

Derating : fiXtress Rapid – Fast for non-completed design:

Makes DC stress analysis using net potential and ohm law

fiXtress Precise- Detailed for completed design: Makes DC & AC stress analysis using Kirchhoff law and Fourier

analysis

fiXtress MTBF M217, Telcordia, Siemens, CNET, Fides and Service Life Mechanical & Electronic BQR Confidential Information

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fiXtress™ experience & ROI

Hundreds of successful projects since 2010 Tens of worldwide satisfied customers In average 5 design and stress errors are detected

per design 10K$ to 100K$ saving per Design fiXtress ROI Brings direct significant improvement In product reliability & Performance. 7

Integration with Altium

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Altium

SchematicDesign

 

PCB

Layout

& Production

 

 

 

 

Simulation (Timing, VHDL ..)

Manual Stress AnalysisManual Schematic Review

Usual design process

SchematicDesign

 

PCB

Layout

& Production

 

 

 

 

Simulation (Timing, SI, VHDL ..)

fiXtress™

Integrated fiXtress Flow in design process – standard

Workflow

הוסף של תמונה

שרטוט

FiXtress™ Workflow

fiXtress™

SchematicDesign

fiXtress™

Worst Case Stress Real Stress

PCBLayout &

ProductionR a p i d P r e c i s e

 

 

Simulation (Timing, SI, VHDL ..)

Integrated fiXtress Flow in full design process

Schematic Review

fiXtress™

Detect Design Errors

BQR Reliability Engineering Ltd.

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fiXtress Integrated in Altium Designer

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Setup, selecting the fields

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MTBF and stress values results

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Creating fiXtress document

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Back annotation to schematic

Conclusions

• fiXtress™ is a Design for Reliability tool• Integrated with Altium • Used throughout the Design process• High usability and high return on investment • Customer product will be much more robust

and reliable• AND Brings High Return Of

Investment ! BQR Confidential Information 17

THANK YOU !

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