http://www.bqr.com/altium-partners-with-bqr-for-enhancing-its-products-with-advanced-reliability-analysis-capabilities/ fiXtress™ BQR and Altium Cooperation. Design for Reliability capabilities for Altium Designer extension.

1. fiXtress™
BQR and Altium Cooperation
Design for Reliability capabilities for Altium Designer
Presentation for
Altium Sales
February 17

2. AGENDA
1. About BQR
2. fiXtress™ modules
3. fiXtress and Altium Integration
4. Sales guide lines
5. Q&A
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3. 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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4. Partial Customer Base & Industries
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Industries
• Medical Device
• Aerospace & Defense
• Automotive
• Railways
• Pharmaceutical
• Manufacturing
• Chemical
• Electronics
• Oil & Gas
• Wind Energy

5. 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 Prediction
electronic & 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 levelSystem levelthrough up to
Design and Operation – From Design Phase to Service Phase
from
Reliable
Product
Optimal
Maintenance
Strategy
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6. 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
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7. 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.
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8. Integration with Altium
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9. Schematic
Design
PCB
Layout
&
Production
Simulation (Timing, VHDL ..)
Manual Stress Analysis
Manual Schematic Review
Usual design process

10. Schematic
Design
PCB
Layout
&
Production
Simulation (Timing, SI, VHDL ..)
fiXtress™
Integrated fiXtress Flow in design
process – standard Workflow
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11. FiXtress™ Workflow
fiXtress™
Schematic
Design
fiXtress™
Worst Case Stress Real Stress
PCB
Layout &
Production
R 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

12. BQR Reliability Engineering Ltd.
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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

17. 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 !
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18. THANK YOU !
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