Enpirion Reliability

Enpirion’s Quality Strategy

  • Product design and manufacturing are based on established industry practices
  • Reliability test are selected on the basis of JEDEC standards and industry practices
  • Products are qualified by families (similarity between products)
  • Manufacturing is outsourced to well established global suppliers to the semiconductor industry
  • All Enpirion manufacturing partners:
    • ISO9001/TS16949 Certified
    • ISO14001 Certified and RoHS Compliant
    • Sony Green Partners
  • Statistical process controls and monitoring

Enpirion’s Quality Controls and Monitoring

  • Supplier Quality Control Mechanisms
    • Product designed to meet supplier design rules
    • Product qualified to supplier processes
    • Monitoring of manufacturing yields
    • Incoming inspection & material control
    • Statistical Process Control (SPC) in manufacturing
    • Quality assurance gates
    • Outgoing inspection & Process Control Monitors (PCM)
    • Change control
    • Final test & QA triggers
  • Enpirion Quality Audits at vendor sites
  • Long-term Reliability Monitoring (LRM) Program
    • Periodic reliability tests administered to ensure manufacturing quality

Enpirion’s Reliability Test Procedures

Test Standard Test Condition
High Temperature Operating Life (HTOL) JESD22-A108C 125°C, 5.5Vin, 1000 hours
Temperature Humidity Bias with Pre-Conditioning (Note 1) JESD22-A101B 85°C, 85%RH, 5.5Vin, 1000 hours
Accelerated Moisture Resistance Unbiased HAST or Autoclave with Pre-conditioning (Note 1) JESD22-A118B
JESD22-A102C		 85%RH, 130°C, 96 hours 100%RH, 121°C, 96 hours
Temperature Cycle with Pre-Conditioning (Note 1) JESD22-A104C –65°C to +150°C / 500 cycles Condition C, Soak Mode 4
High Temperature Storage (HTS) JESD22-A103C 150°C, 1000 hours, Condition B
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) – Human Body Model (HBM) JESD22-A114E 2000V minimum Class 2
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) – Field Induced Charge Device Model (CDM) JESD22-C101C 500V minimum
Latch Up JESD78A Class I & II
Solderability JESD22-B102D Method 1; Lead-Free

Enpirion Reliability Results

FIT Rate = 2.7

  • @ 55°C, 0.7eV activation energy, 60% confidence, based on HTOL data collected to date (MTBF ~42,000 years)