System-in-Package Process Integration for Virtual Inspection

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Solution Overview

Problem

The current system-in-package technology-based manufacturing process is cumbersome, error-prone, and time-consuming, with high manual intervention leading to increased production costs and reduced product competitiveness due to lack of integration and virtual inspection in the design-to-production cycle.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for integrating design data with three-dimensional model data to create an integrated package model, performing assembly process analysis to identify and correct design issues, and generating manufacturing programs for automation, reducing manual work and repetitive tasks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual operations are used in the design and manufacturing process, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but the stability of fabrication decreases and time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestability of fabricationVSAvoidmanual operations
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automated self-inspection and self-correction through virtual process analysis. The design data automatically undergoes assembly process analysis, virtual inspection, and error detection without manual intervention, allowing the system to service itself and improve fabrication stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Manual mechanical operations are replaced with automated computer-based systems. The patent substitutes manual design, simulation, and production processes with an integrated automated system that uses software algorithms, virtual modeling, and computational analysis to perform all fabrication tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If manual creation of component models is performed, then customization is possible, but time consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemodeling timeVSAvoidmanual creation of component model
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses copying by retrieving pre-existing component models from a library instead of creating new models manually. The automated system copies and reuses standardized component models, significantly reducing modeling time while maintaining consistency and quality across designs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

Component models are prepared in advance and stored in a library during the preliminary design phase. This preliminary action allows models to be readily available for reuse in subsequent manufacturing processes, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual model creation during production.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of time

If design data is not virtually inspected before fabrication, then the design-to-production cycle is shorter, but production problems arise extending the entire cycle

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction cycle timeVSAvoidvirtual inspection capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

Virtual inspection and assembly process analysis are performed as preliminary actions before actual fabrication begins. The system detects design errors, identifies potential production problems, and validates the design data in the virtual domain, preventing issues from carrying into the physical manufacturing phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A virtual model serves as an intermediary between design and physical fabrication. The patent introduces a virtual inspection layer that mediates between design data and manufacturing processes, allowing errors to be detected and corrected in the virtual domain before committing resources to actual production.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Ease of operation

If repeated modeling operations are performed manually, then design flexibility is maintained, but working difficulty and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworking difficultyVSAvoidprocess complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple separate modeling operations are merged into a single automated process. The system combines design data acquisition, component model retrieval, assembly process analysis, and virtual inspection into one integrated automated workflow, reducing working difficulty while managing complexity through systematic integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP3951632B1System-in-package technology-based process design method and system, medium and device
Publication Date: 2025.09.10 VAYO SHANGHAI TECH
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AI summary

The present invention provides a system-in-package technology-based process design method and system, a medium and a device. The system-in-package technology-based process design method comprises: acquiring design data of a layout and three-dimensional model data associated with the layout; associating and matching the design data with the three-dimensional model data according to design element attribute information in the design data, and assembling the design data and the three-dimensional model data into an integrated packaging model; and performing assembly process analysis on the integrated packaging model to analyze unreasonable design points used as design modifications and references; or directly exporting, from the integrated packaging model, a packaging process manufacturing procedure for production and manufacturing. By means of the present invention, a lot of repetitive work can be removed, and manual work can be replaced by automation, thereby saving 60%-80% of the time compared with the original method; in addition, the working difficulty is reduced, and the process from design to simulation and production and manufacturing is simplified, greatly improving the competitiveness of electronic products.