iRel40 - Intelligent Reliability 4.0
Intelligent Reliability 4.0 (iRel40) is an ECSEL-JU funded Innovation Action project with 79 partners from 14 countries.
iRel40 has the ultimate goal of improving reliability for electronic components and systems by reducing failure rates along the entire value chain. The trend for system integration, especially for heterogeneous integration, is miniaturization. Thus, reliability becomes an increasing challenge on device and system level and faces exceptional requirements for future complex applications. Applications require customer acceptance and satisfaction at an acceptable cost. Reliability must be guaranteed when using systems in new and critical environments.
In iRel40, 79 partners collaborate in 6 technical work packages along the value chain. WP1 focuses on specifications and requirements. WP2 and WP3 focus on modelling, simulation, materials and interfaces based on test vehicles. WP4 applies the test vehicle knowledge to industrial pilots related to production. WP5 applies the knowledge to testing. WP6 focuses on application use cases applying the industrial pilots. We assess and validate the iRel40 results. Reliable electronic components and systems will be developed faster and new processes will be transferred to production with higher speed. Crucial insight gained by Physics of Failure and AI methods will push overall quality levels and reliability.
iRel40 results will strengthen production along the value chain and support sustainable success of Electronic Components and Systems investment in Europe. Through collaboration between academics, industry and knowledge institutes on this challenging topic of reliability, the project secures more than 25.000 jobs in the 25 participating production and testing sites in Europe. The project supports new applications and reliable chips push applications in energy efficiency, e-mobility, autonomous driving and IoT. This unique project brings, for the first time ever, world-leading reliability experts and European manufacturing expertise together to generate a sustainable pan-European reliability community.
| Start/End Duration: | May 2020 – April 2023 36 months Ongoing project |
| Funded under: | H2020-EU.2.1.1.7. ECSEL-IA - ECSEL Innovation Action |
| Coordinator: | INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG, Germany |
| Total Consortium: | 79 |
| Partners: | AMS AG (AT), AT & S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT (AT), AVL LIST GMBH (AT), INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES IT-SERVICES GMBH (AT), KAI KOMPETENZZENTRUM AUTOMOBIL - UND INDUSTRIEELEKTRONIK GMBH (AT), MATERIALS CENTER LEOBEN FORSCHUNG GMBH (AT), TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ (AT), TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN (AT), VIRTUAL VEHICLE RESEARCH GMBH (AT), ROBERT BOSCH SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING DRESDEN GMBH (DE), ELMOS Semiconductor AG (DE), FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (DE), FORSCHUNGS- UND TRANSFERZENTRUM EV AN DER WESTSAECHSISCHEN HOCHSCHULE ZWICKAU (DE), GOPEL ELECTRONIC GMBH (DE), HAHN-SCHICKARD-GESELLSCHAFT FUER ANGEWANDTE FORSCHUNG E.v. (DE), INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG (AT), INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES DRESDEN GMBH& CO KG (DE), LEC GMBH (DE), PUMACY TECHNOLOGIES AG (DE), SCHWEIZER ELECTRONIC AG (DE), SENSITEC GMBH (DE), TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET CHEMNITZ (DE), TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN (DE), UNIVERSITAET BREMEN (DE), WESTSACHSISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZWICKAU (DE), X-FAB Dresden GmbH & Co. KG (DE), X-FAB SEMICONDUCTOR FOUNDRIES GMBH (DE), LASER IMAGING SYSTEMS GMBH (DE), NANO DESIGN SRO (SK), SLOVENSKA TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE (SK), EDR & MEDESO AB (SE), INMOTION TECHNOLOGIES AB (SE), QRTECH AKTIEBOLAG (SE), RISE IVF AB (SE), SCANIA CV AB (SE), AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR v(FI), FORCIOT OY (FI), OKMETIC OY (FI), Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy (FI), SCREENTEC OY (FI), INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM (BE), MINDCET NV (BE), NINIX TECHNOLOGIES NV (BE), ON SEMICONDUCTOR BELGIUM BVBA (BE), PLASTIC OMNIUM ADVANCED INNOVATIONAND RESEARCH (BE), SIRRIS HET COLLECTIEF CENTRUM VAN DE TECHNOLOGISCHE INDUSTRIE (BE), INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES ITALIA SRL (IT), CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LA NANOELETTRONICA (IT), LFOUNDRY SRL (IT), TEKNE SRL(IT), UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELL'AQUILA (IT), BATZ SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA (ES), BSH ELECTRODOMESTICOS ESPANA SA (ES), Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles, S.A. (ES), AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (ES), IKERLAN S. COOP (ES), KNOWLEDGE CENTRIC SOLUTIONS SL (ES), UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA - LA MANCHA (ES), UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID (ES), ULMA EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS S COOP (ES), ALTER TECHNOLOGY TUV NORD SA (ES), IWO PROJECT BV (NL), JIACO INSTRUMENTS BV (NL), TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (NL), NEXPERIA BV (NL), SIGNIFY NETHERLANDS BV (NL), ARCELIK A.S. (TR), ENFORMA BILISIM ANONIM SIRKETI (TR), MARMARA UNIVERSITY (TR), PAVO TASARIM URETIM ELEKTRONIK TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI (TR), ELAPHE POGONSKE TEHNOLOGIJE DOO(SI), INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN (SI), ATEP - AMKOR TECHNOLOGY PORTUGAL SA (PT), IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS (GR), THALES (FR), UNITED MONOLITHIC SEMICONDUCTORS SAS (FR), UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD (FR), III-V LAB (FR) |
| Overall Budget: | € 103 493 257 |
| EU contribution: | € 24 862 592 |
| Website: | www.irel40.eu |
| LinkedIn: | iRel40 |
| Twitter: | @iRel40 |
| Facebook: | IRel40 |
| Cordis: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/876659 |
| ECSEL-JU Portal: | https://www.ecsel-portal.eu/project/1970 |