Release Notes Version 5

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1 Release Notes Version 5 Version 5.2 ( ) IPC-2581 File Support Sherlock now supports IPC-2581 file import, as provided by the IPC-2581 Consortium. Entire circuit card definitions can be imported from an IPC-2581 file. This process is like the methodology implemented by Sherlock during its ODB++ archives import. See the IPC-2581 User Guide section for complete details. Semiconductor Wearout Analysis Added a new analysis module to predict semiconductor wearout using an approach that follows SAE ARP See the Semiconductor Wearout Analysis user guide section for details about the standard and how Sherlock performs this analysis. Support for the Semiconductor Wearout Analysis module requires a Sherlock license option to be enabled. If you are interested in this capability, please contact your DfR Solutions sales representative. Parts List Updated the Parts List Import process to use any column named packagename in the imported parts list file to determine the part package definition. This is done in addition to the existing functionality of decoding the part description. Part Modeling Added the Model Part property to the Pkg tab in the Parts Editor. This option allows users to selectively enable/disable FEA modeling for a specific part. If Model Part is set to DISABLED, then the part will not be included in any FEA model that is generated. Part Wizard Patterns Updated the part wizard patterns to display an error when a pattern contains mathematical expressions and contains a circular reference between two sets of variable names in the expression. Updated the EXP field type to automatically multiple the value of the field by 1,000 when the separator character is a K, and to multiple the value by 1,000,000 when the character is a M. This is consistent to what is done with the EXP3 field type. Add support for character string data types and comparison methods for use in property value evaluation. Lead Modeling Modified the lead modeling method to use multiple elements as needed to model lead feet and shoulders based on the Max Vertical Size lead property. This provides better FEA results for leads with long feet and/or shoulders. Previously, only the lead vertical segment was modeled by multiple elements. Users can opt to use the old lead modeling method by specifying the "usev51leadmodeling" debug setting of 11

2 Modified lead modeling to start lead identifiers with numeric values at 1 instead of 0. GUI Changes Added shortcuts to the Part Library, Part Wizard Editor, and the Laminate Manager in the Sherlock installation directory and Start menu. Re-arranged the items in the Parts menu to be more readable and to reduce the likelihood of confusing the Update Parts List from Part Library and Update Part Library from Parts List menu items. The help message for the Package Type part property now displays the list of valid package type designators used by Sherlock for solder fatigue analysis. Modified the Parts List, Part Library and Part Wizard editors so that all Part Number and Part Manufacturer values are displayed as upper case strings since these values are always treated as case-insensitive values when searching for parts. Modified the Parts List, Part Library and Part Wizard editors to allow the user to launch the Manufacturer Chooser dialog to search for and select a standard manufacturer name from a list of known names. Sherlock now includes a list of over 1,800 manufacturer names and aliases commonly used by electronics distributors. Additional manufacturer names may be defined in the Manufacturer user data store as needed. See the User Data Files user guide section for more details. Modified the Package Name, Part Number and Part Type filter pull-downs in the Layer Viewer to include an ALL choice instead of the empty string choice previously provided. The choice lists will also now include an UNDEFINED choice if one or more parts have an undefined Package Name, Part Number or Part Type, thereby allowing the user to easily find parts with such missing data. Fixed a bug when exporting a large Parts List as a spreadsheet file which would cause the export process to hang for a long time. Fixed a bug which would result in non-positive Jacobian determinant errors while running any FEA analysis for a PCB which contained BGA components on the bottom of the PCB and ball modeling was enabled. Fixed a bug which prevented a LEADLESS package type from being added with the Package Manager. Updated the ODB++ PRP parser to strip any included units value for known numeric part property fields. Fixed a bug in the Parts List Editor which would cause an exception to be thrown when saving the part if some electrical part properties included units appended to the numeric value. Fixed a bug in the Layer Viewer which would display assembly points on mirrored assemblies in the wrong orientation. Fixed the ODB++ archive parser to handle feature symbol definitions to be parsed in units specified by the feature definition and not assume they are the same as the file units of 11

3 Version ( ) Package Library Added additional SIP package definitions to the Sherlock Package Library. Added the Conductivity and Temperature tabs to the Color Settings dialog in the 3D Results Viewer to prevent an error generated because of the addition of conductivity and temperature results. Fixed a bug in the Sub-Assembly Editor which occurred when the PCB was defined in units other than inches resulting in the coordinates of the sub-assembly being converted to the stored units once again as the assembly editor assumed the values were defined in inches. Added an option to allow Copper, Laminate, Solder Mask, and Silk Screen layers to override the default Sherlock method of rendering filled polygons before other types of elements on the layer. This helps prevent the problem of having a clear-filled point aperture defined before a color-filled polygon in the layer file from clearing the overlapping portion of the color-filled Polygon. The option is labeled Draw Filled Poly First and is found in the Edit File Properties dialog of those layer types. Fixed a bug which prevented the Sherlock 3D Viewer from starting after modifying any of the 3D Viewer launcher settings. Fixed a bug in the Material Manager which prevented new materials from being created from scratch or from a copy of another material. Fixed a bug which prevented components defined in a Pick & Place CSV or Delimited file from being imported or their properties updated of 11

4 Version 5.1 ( ) Solder Joint Fatigue Calculix Support for Column Grid Array (CGA) modeling for Solder Joint Fatigue FEA analysis and the Solder Fatigue tool has been added to Sherlock. CGA package type is supported which will use the new CGA Solder Joint Fatigue model. A new high-temperature solder type Pb90Sn10 has also been added in support of the CGA model. Added a new solder type SN100C to the solder library. The version of Calculix used by Sherlock has been upgraded to This version will automatically be selected if no user-defined version has been already specified in the FEA Settings dialog. Lead Modeling Added the Grid option for the Lead Layout part/package property. The Grid layout defines one or more rows of through-hole leads specified by the Lead Long Count and Lead Short Count part/package properties. See the FEA Lead Modeling user guide section for details and examples. Added the Rectangular option for the Lead Layout part/package property. The Rectangular layout is similar to the Quad layout, except that the number of pins along each side can be individually specified using the Lead Long Count and Lead Short Count part/package properties. The Rectangular layout is available for all SMT lead types. See the FEA Lead Modeling user guide section for details and examples. Added the L_Lead option for the Lead Geometry part/package property to allow users to define parts with L-shaped leads arranged in SIP, DIP or CIRCULAR layouts. See the FEA Lead Modeling user guide section for details and examples. Life Cycles Updated life event editor to allow, if desired, the phase duration to automatically be updated if the event duration exceeds the phase duration instead of having to lose any work made in the event to go back and update the phase duration. Part Modeling, Parts List, and Package Editor Added the Corner Face part/package property to specify the plane in which a mitered or rounded corner is drawn. This allows users to more accurately model parts such as resistors and disc capacitors, with or without leads. Added Overmold Thickness and Package Laminate Thickness part/package properties used by the BGA model for Solder Joint Fatigue. When no value is specified for these, Sherlock will automatically use the previously defined default values for these properties during BGA Solder Joint Fatigue analysis. Some Part Editor fields have been reorganized into different tabs for better organization and function of 11

5 Sherlock Internal Architecture Updated how PCB outlines are parsed, stored, modified and displayed so that outline coordinates can be stored in inches or millimeters. This eliminates problems associated with converting between millimeters and inches. In particular, it allows manually assigned node metric coordinates from losing precision when re-editing these nodes. Sherlock Installer and Launcher Updated the Sherlock installer to include an option to install Start menu items and desktop shortcuts for all users of the PC. Modified the way Sherlock determines the location of Java by querying the operating system instead of using the SetJava.cmd file. The location of Java can be updated through the Launcher Settings found in the Settings menu. Sherlock will use a 64-bit version of Java before a 32-bit version of Java. A 64-bit version of Java is preferred as 32-bit support will be removed in a future release. ANSYS Workbench users must load a new version of the Sherlock Plugin because of this change. The version numbers of the Sherlock Plugin have been modified to match the major version of the ANSYS Workbench version with a minor version of 1. Fixed a problem which caused the Lead Layout property in the Part Editor to be changed to SIP or SINGLE (depending on the valid options for the geometry) when multiple parts were edited. Fixed a performance issue which would significantly slow down updating of the components when using the component editor in the Layer Viewer when a board had many components. Fixed an issue when modeling BGA elements on a part and the part is then converted to a non-bga part without disabling BGA modeling for the part. This would result in either the BGA elements to continue to be modeled for FEA analysis or result in a FEA model error if lead modeling was enabled after converting it from a BGA part. Fixed a performance issue which would pause the user interface when adding a circuit card or circuit card files, especially when there were multiple circuit cards in the project. Fixed a bug that would prevent a saved result name from being changed if the only thing that changed was the case of any of the characters in the name of the result. Fixed the ODB++ parser to handle version 8 PKG and CMP records where units other than the default may have been specified of 11

6 Version ( ) Solder Joint Fatigue Updated the BGA model in the Solder Fatigue tool to allow for the selection of the overmold material. Overmold material has also been added as a part and package property and used during Solder Joint Fatigue analysis for the BGA model. The default value remains as OVERMOLD-BGA. Updated the ODB++ parser to handle version 8 CMP records which may have an unique ID appended to the record. Fixed an Out of Memory error that could sometimes occur when viewing the Stackup when drill holes overlapped each other. Fixed a problem where sub-assemblies did not always share PCB nodes in a Merged model which would result in the sub-assembly not being connected during FEA analysis. Fixed a problem where parts on the bottom of the PCB would not always be connected in a Merged model. Fixed a bug that prevented a project from being imported if the location of the project file was browsed from a user's Libraries folder. Corrected a bug that affected parts contained by potting regions which prevented a FEA model from being generated if the component has a heat sink or causes a wirebond attachment point on the component to not be placed on top of the potted component. Fixed a bug in the Sherlock installer that could result in the other directories defined at the same level as the Sherlock main installation directory to be removed during the installation. Version ( ) Part Wizard Patterns Reports Stackup Updated part wizard code fields to allow any properties defined for the code to allow the use of mathematical expressions as is allowed for the part wizard properties. Included sqrt, to find the square root of a number, as an available function when using mathematical expressions in part wizard patterns. Updated the part wizard code field table to allow multiple cells to be copied to the clipboard and pasted from the clipboard to allow for modification in an external spreadsheet program. See the Editing Part Wizard Field Codes section of the PL-05 Part Wizard user guide for more information. Updated the project report score summary to report the life cycle using the defined life cycle units instead of always using years to avoid displaying 0 years when a life cycle was defined to be less than a year in length of 11

7 Added a dialog to allow the Stackup Symmetry property to be modified without having to regenerate the stackup. The Stackup Properties dialog is accessed from the popup menu on the Stackup entry of the CCA Inputs menu. Added an Update Copper button to the Stackup listing to allow the copper values to be recomputed without having to edit a layer to force the copper values to be recomputed. User Interface Updated the Solder Units field label in the Part Editor to Stencil Units to be consistent with the Stencil Thickness label. Corrected a problem with the Layer Editor where the Exclude Region function did not function correctly if the area being excluded included certain types of arcs. Corrected a null error that occurred when searching the Part Library when a matching part also matched a part in the Approved Vendor List (AVL). Corrected a problem with Trace Layer exporting when dielectric regions are recursively contained by conductor regions. Fixed a bug when saving results if the CCA or project had been renamed since adding layers where the results file may be missing layers or show incorrect layers if the originally named CCA or project still exists when saving the results. Fixed a problem that would prevent mechanical parts from being converted to a Polygonal shape in the mechanical part editor. Fixed a bug when lead or ball modeling was enabled for harmonic or random vibration analysis which could result in the overall results not matching the component results table as far as the number of passing components. This also affected the life prediction curve for the analysis and would result in duplicate analysis scores in the project report which may contradict each other. Fixed a bug when editing multiple mount points at once with different FEA constraints which resulted in the FEA constraints being removed from the mount points. Fixed a bug when editing multiple mount pads from various sides of the PCB which resulted in the updated mount pads being placed on the top side of the PCB. Fixed a problem with concave shaped polygons for mount points near the edge of the PCB that could result in FEA analysis from being performed because the center of the mount point was determined to be outside the PCB outline. Fixed an error that occurred when exporting a NX Nastran FEA model for Mechanical Shock, Random Vibration, or Harmonic Vibration. Version ( ) Plated Through-hole Analysis Plated through-hole analysis now allows the IMEC Plated Through-hole Fatigue model to be used for analysis and with the PTH Fatigue calculator in addition to the existing default IPC-TR-579 model. Support for the IMEC Plated Through-hole Fatigue model requires of 11

8 a Sherlock license option to be enabled. If you would like to use it, please contact your DfR Solutions sales representative. Solder Fatigue Analysis Updated solder fatigue analysis to ensure the DIE dimensions are not larger than the FLAG dimensions for the QFN model. Corrected a bug with solder fatigue analysis where the default DIE material was not set as SILICON for a given part. This would happen when running solder fatigue analysis on an upgraded project without having modified any part properties before running analysis. Version 5.0 ( ) NX Nastran Support Added support for the NX Nastran FEA engine, allowing Sherlock to perform FEA analysis tasks using that engine and to export mesh models to that engine using the NX Nastran Bulk Data File (BDF) format. Support for NX Nastran requires a Sherlock license option to be enabled. If you would like to use it, please contact your DfR Solutions sales representative. Modeling Regions Added support for user-defined PCB modeling regions for FEA analysis or model export. Modeling regions allow users to specify different meshing properties for different PCB areas which can be used, for example, to increase model accuracy in certain areas without significantly increasing the overall FEA model complexity. See the Modeling Regions user guide section for details and examples. FEA Model Export Users can now export FEA models containing elements generated by the Sherlock meshing algorithm to Abaqus and Ansys Mechanical. Abaqus models are exported as a Python script that defines the mesh elements and then creates individual Abaqus parts from those mesh elements. Ansys Mechanical models can be exported as either a pair of APDL/CDB files that defines a model that can be imported using the Read Input From... GUI menu option or a single CDB file that can be imported using the cdread command. Users can now export hybrid FEA models to Abaqus or Ansys Mechanical that use elements generated by both Sherlock's meshing algorithm and the native FEA tool meshing algorithm. See the Modeling Regions user guide section for details and examples. Heat Sinks Added the ability to create attachment points for heat sinks from mount points. See the Heat Sinks user guide section form more details. Modified the Heat Sink Editor to allow properties for multiple heat sinks to be modified at the same time. Mechanical Parts Added the ability to create attachment points for mechanical parts from mount points. See of 11

9 the Mechanical Parts user guide section for more details. Modified the Mechanical Part Editor to allow properties for multiple mechanical parts to be modified at the same time. Mechanical part multi-edit is only allowed when the selected mechanical parts all have the same shape type. Mount Points and Fixtures Modified the Mount Point Editor and Fixture Editor to allow properties for multiple mount points to be modified at the same time. Mount point multi-edit is only allowed when the selected mount points are of the same mount and shape type. Lead Modeling Added the Leads filter to the 2D Layer Viewer to allow users to display lead outlines for parts which have the Lead Modeling or Ball Modeling part properties enabled. This can be used to more accurately align components with underlying solder masks, pads or traces. See the 2D Lead Viewing sub-section of the Lead Modeling user guide section for details and examples. ODB++ Support Added an option in the file properties dialog for Pick & Place (ODB++) files to indicate from which direction the rotation values for bottom side components are relative to. By default, Sherlock assumes the rotation value is as if looking down from the top side of the board. By changing the Bottom Rotation View property to a value of BOTTOM, Sherlock will take the values as if the observer is looking at the bottom components from the bottom of the board. Potting Regions Added support for potting through-hole parts with 90 degree bent leads. Added support to the Ansys Plugin for assigning potting region materials. Part and Package Editor Modified the Part and Package editors to gray out part properties / tabs that are not applicable because of other property settings instead of disabling them. This allows users to view and/or edit such properties even though they are currently unused. Users who prefer to have such properties / tabs disabled should use the disableunusedpartproperties debug setting. Added a read-only Package Type field to the Part Editor to indicate which package type is chosen by Sherlock for the selected part package. The Solder Fatigue Model chosen by Sherlock may also be displayed by adding the includepackagetypesoldermodel debug setting. Package Library Added Die Material package property to allow specific materials other to be specified for the die instead of the default of silicon which is used during Solder Joint Fatigue analysis. Plated Through-hole Analysis Plated through-hole analysis now allows the IMEC Plated Through-hole Fatigue model to be used for analysis and with the PTH Fatigue calculator in addition to the existing default of 11

10 IPC-TR-579 model. Updated Plated through-hole analysis for the IPC model to include elastic strain range. Shared Data Files The location of Sherlock data files for managing items like materials, laminates, packages, and others may now be specified so that these files may be shared amongst users by using a network shared drive. See the User Data Files user guide section for more information. User Interface Added a Show File Location menu option to the popup menu of the Files listed for a CCA and for saved results to make it convenient to quickly find the files on the file system. The FEA analysis property dialogs are now displayed when selecting Run Analysis Task similar to the Edit Properties option to allow the user to verify that everything is correct before starting an analysis task. The FEA analysis property dialogs now include Select All and Clear All convenience buttons in the event list panel if more than one event is defined. Corrected Harmonic and Random Vibration results with Abaqus were only the real component was used for determining the displacement and strain instead of using the complex component. Fixed a bug in the Ansys Plugin that prevented materials from being assigned properly to leaded parts in some cases. Fixed a bug with the editor dialog of circular shaped objects such as mount points, ICT fixtures, mechanical parts, and potting segments that would display a diameter value that was smaller than the actual diameter of the circle when a small number of nodes was selected for the circular object. Corrected exported geometry models that contained mount holes that weren't circular from always making those mount holes as a circular shape. Fixed a bug in the test point editor where test point layers weren't properly selected when starting the editor and test points could be selected from inside the editor even if the side they were on wasn't selected. Updated the part library export to remove leading and trailing spaces around the part manufacturer and part numbers in the resulting XML file to prevent issues during import with values that have leading escape sequences. Corrected a problem with importing ODB++ Pad (P) records that specified a specific rotation value for pad definitions 8 and 9 which caused the specified rotation to be rounded to the nearest 90 degrees. Fixed a bug that prevented the layer viewer from working when an ODB++ surface definition does not contain at least one polygon definition. Such surface definitions are now ignored and indicated as errors when parsing the file. Corrected 3D PDF generation to display Potting elements in a transparent color. Fixed a problem with the 3D Viewer which caused the viewer application to abort if the of 11

11 window was re-sized multiple times. Fixed a problem with report generation where any image related to the bottom side of the CCA always showed the silk screen, solder mask, or copper layer from the top side of 11