WP3 Tools and techniques for green ECS by design
WP3 aims at integrating the 6R in the eco-design of electronic systems by providing the adapted tools and techniques.The WP is structured in three tasks, each one responding to a specific objective of the WP:
- - Task 3.1: Definition of the infrastructure and data for the integration of the 6R in the eco-design of electronic systems.
- - Task 3.2: Definition of the metrics for the integration of the 6R in the eco-design of electronic systems.
- - Task 3.3: Definition of the tools and guidelines for the integration of the 6R in the eco-design of
- electronic systems.
Tools description:
- 6R design flow for Integrated Circuits
Leader: CEA
Collaborating partners: Aniah, IMEC, UCL
Final TRL: 3
CEA, in collaboration with Aniah, will define a design flow for Integrated Circuits targeted to the 6R. The flow will guide the design of circuits by taking into account the environmental impacts, the 6R and the typical constraints (performance, energy consumption, area). The best configuration of the circuit architecture will be identified, considering these multiple parameters and constraints.
In the development of the flow, CEA will consider the results provided by IMEC with their tool Imec.netzero about the quantification of the environmental impact of the manufacturing of an Integrated Circuit as soon as the results will be available.
Use case coverage: Service-life extension of ICT user equipment (UC-08) provided by UCL is the use-case addressed for benchmarking results from the implemented flow by considering the development of an Integrated Circuit for smartphones.
- Eco-design tool for electronic and power electronic systems
- 3DEXPERIENCE platform and design for 6R applications
Leader: CEA
Collaborating partners: INP-GRE, OZU, UCL, RISE, DTI, VITESCO,Final TRL: 5
It will be a dedicated and simplified tool for electronics and power electronics at system level to reduce e- waste and environmental impacts (based on streamlined LCA). The tool is intended for use by any electrical engineers who is non-expert in environmental impact evaluation. It provides a bridge between eco-design and traditional (power) electronics design procedure and aims to help choosing with multi-parameter objectives (cost, performance, e-waste, environmental impacts).
A methodology will be developed to define how the tool will interact with the requirements of traditional (power) electronics design process and defining how to calculate the e-waste and eco-design metrics. The methodology will also define the links with the database and the potential eco-design recommendations based on 6Rs.
The tool requires a database providing reliable LCA data and e-waste metrics. Specifications for matching the database with the tool will be provided.
The tool will certainly be open-source to reach the maximum number of researchers and engineers possible.
Use cases coverage: Power Electronic Inverter and HV-Box (UC-02). As far as possible, parts of the tool can be used to help develop certain use cases.
Leader: Dassault Systemes
Collaborating partners: AT&S, CEA, Aniah, IMEC, Fraunhofer, TST, ACORDE
Final TRL: 5
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications allow users to virtualise products or systems, with capabilities to analyse (ENOVIA apps), design, engineer (CATIA apps), simulate (SIMULIA apps) and engineer manufacturing processes (DELMIA apps).
In this project, Dassault Systemes will focus on the capability to design electronic systems for Reliability, Reparability, Recyclability and Reduction of materials.
With the use of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Dassault Systemes will provide the capability to use a common infrastructure (cloud-based) to share ECS designs and lifecycle assessment results at each product level (from chip to PCB to electronic systems), ensuring the traceability of information. Dassault Systemes will integrate data from both external and internal sources and provide dashboards that deliver actionable information to all stakeholders in a secure and auditable manner. In 2021, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud has been certified by the highest security standards: ISO27001:2017 (Information Security Management System), on the full scope of design, development, delivery, deployment, cloud operations and support of the 3DEXPERIENCE Software as a Service (SaaS), as well as ISO/IEC 27701:2019, extension to ISO 27001 for Privacy Information Management. Since 2010, our cloud subsidiary Outscale SAS (3DS OUTSCALE) has been providing companies and public organisations with robust, secure and custom Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing services deployed on trusted industrial infrastructure. 3DS OUTSCALEs multilocal cloud provides complete governance in terms of digital security and sovereignty.
In addition, Dassault Systemes will provide simulation applications (SIMULIA) to simulate product performance, reliability and safety, to further explore and evaluate innovative alternatives before building anything physical. These apps offer solutions for structural and thermal performance, fluid dynamics, vibro- acoustics, electromagnetics, multibody simulation, and simulation process management and optimization.
It is also planning to extend the capabilities of DELMIA apps to ensure and optimise repair and recycling processes by implementing the metrics identified during the project in WP3.
Sustainable innovation Intelligence (application for LCA activities)
- Eco-design tool for Advanced Reliability and lifetime exploration
- Imec.netzero Leader: IMEC
- LCA and eco-design tool for the assessment and improvement of the environmental impact of PCBs Leader: AT&S
- Battery selection tool Leader: TST
- Battery Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation tool: Leader: TST
- GREEN Monitoring System Leader: ACORDE
Leader: HUA
Collaborating Partners: SSOL Final TRL: 5
HUA will design, develop and implement knowledge-based, cognitive optimization algorithms for adding resilience and increasing sustainability. The algorithms will form part of a custom-developed software tool for assessing, monitoring, and improving (based on pre-defined KPIs) reliability through e-waste manage- ment, in green ECS and related devices. The resulting software tool will be developed jointly with SSOL.
Use cases coverage: The tool will address the Green Soil Probe – Technologies for green IoT devices for agriculture.use-case (UC-10).
Collaborating Partners: Dassault SysteÌ?mes, CEA Final TRL: 7
The tool will allow the quantification of the environmental impact of the manufacturing of an Integrated Circuit chip in a high-volume foundry. The tool will be based on a bottom-up life-cycle inventory of a semiconductor foundry enabled by the implementation of a Virtual Fab that simulates foundry operation. The Virtual Fab assembles data over Fab tools and processes to realise highly complex process flows. Several technologies will be covered (Logic, DRAM, NAND) up to a packaged chip. The Virtual Fab also relies on a series of Fab models for the realistic articulation of the process flows in a complex Fab environment. The imec.netzero user will have the possibility to adjust several model parameters before running the simulation. Finally, the tool will offer multiple options to realise impact analysis and express the impact of IC chip manufacturing on climate change, water scarcity and abiotic resource depletion. Regarding tool frontend implementation, the imec.netzero output results will be made available to the EECONE consortium partners through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for the duration of the EECONE project. As specified in Task 5.3 of WP5, IMEC will also develop a permanent Web Application that will make imec.netzero results available to the broad public.
Use cases coverage: The tool will directly support two use cases by providing data input to fine-tune projections of ICT equipment impact in the reducing data centre e-waste use-case (UC-07) and Service-life extension of ICT user equipment use-case (UC-08).
Collaborating Partners: Partners of WP3 for the definition of a bottom up, process and resource-consumption based LCA approach/process (Dassault SysteÌ?mes)
Final TRL: 6
Development of an LCA Process for the 6R assessment including a LCA Tool to assess the environmental impact of PCB production based on the actual process situation and related material consumption.
The LCA and eco design Tools generated will be used to rate and compare the environmental impact of different designs and materials. Suggested modifications will be made to improve sustainability of newly designed substrates/inks. The targets for the eco-design tool are Robustness, Reduction, some Repair (Modularity/Interconnections) and some Recycling.
Use cases coverage: The tool will provide PCB concepts based on eco-design guidelines with least resource consumption, minimum environmental footprint and least e-waste for ECU for automotive Industry use- case (UC-01) and Power Electronic Inverter and HV-Box (UC-02). The target is to provide green ECU and green DC/DC converter and HV Module system.
Collaborating Partners: ACORDE Final TRL: 3
The tool will be used to assist in the design process of IoT devices by providing additional information about the environmental footprint of the selected lithium battery. The intended tool will take into account the type of battery, power consumption of the IoT device, and the operating conditions imposed by the application (e.g., environmental conditions, frequency of connections, etc.) to provide relevant feedback to the HW design engineer about the expected performance (i.e., expected lifetime), environmental impact under a Life-cycle approach, and costs. The main aim of the tool is to simplify the design process, when a balance between performance, cost and environmental impact must be reached.
The development of the battery selection tool will contribute to the implementation of the 6R concept. For instance, this tool will improve Reliability (an optimal selection of the battery will lead to improved reliability of the IoT device related to the expected battery life), Recyclability (the recyclability of the batteries will be considered as part of the environmental footprint), and Reduction (an optimal selection of the battery will lead to a reduced use of resources, since an accurate prediction of battery performance enables less conservatism in the selection of the battery, which leads to smaller batteries)
Use case coverage: The tool will directly support the Green Soil Probe – Technologies for green IoT devices for agriculture use-case (UC-10)
Collaborating Partners: SSOL Final TRL: 4
The tool will be used to assist end-users and service providers in the management of IoT devices and infrastructures during their operation, the intended tool will provide updated information about the Remaining Useful Life of the batteries. The tool will process the gathered information about the battery usage and the operating conditions (e.g., Temperature) to estimate the remaining life of the batteries. The main aim of this tool is to improve the management of the IoT infrastructure at the end of life of the batteries, enabling the implementation of more efficient and sustainable management strategies, including aspects related to the treatment of e-waste (this tool has been moved from WP4 to WP3 according to the comments from Patrick during the F2F meeting).
A battery RUL estimation tool will enable a more efficient and effective management of the batteries at their end of life, resulting in lower costs linked to the Recycling of batteries through improved logistics, as well as the Reduction in the use of resources related to the operation of IoT infrastructure (i.e., replacement of IoT devices just at their end of their operating life through updated and reliable information about the battery RUL).
Use case coverage: The tool will support the Green Soil Probe – Technologies for green IoT devices for agriculture use-case (UC-10)
Collaborating Partners: TST, Dassault SysteÌ?mes Final TRL: 4
Development of a tool to assess the feasibility and perform trade-off studies of battery-less monitoring solutions. The goal will be to reduce environmental footprint versus battery-based solutions, by enabling more reliable solutions and by reducing the more pollutant e-waste associated to batteries.
Use cases coverage: The tool will support the Green Soil Probe – Technologies for green IoT devices for agriculture use-case (UC-10)
- OZU will work on an analytical tool to evaluate the environmental impact of electronics at system level to make it easier to use for non-LCA-experts. OZU plan to develop plug-ins that would make eco-design tool able to incorporate use-case specific constraints and needs. OZU will work in collaboration with tools providers such Dassault SysteÌ?mes and also with data providers such as Arcelink. The tool will be tested and validated by Arcelink.
- Fraunhofer will provide and redefine test cases both for eco-design and for eco-reliability, to provide â??mini-toolsâ? with pre-calculated data, and to be part of the software testing. Fraunhofer will use their methods and the EECONE prototype softwares in specific use cases.
Use cases coverage: The goal is to address as many use cases as possible. The eco-design tool would be general enough to be applicable to all use cases, but would also be flexible enough to accommodate specific needs. As an example, it will be utilized in creating traceability systems and building recycling strategies use-case (UC-05).
Use cases coverage: The tool will contribute to the assessment part of the Service-life extension of ICT user equipment use-case (UC-08) and the eco-reliability approach will be tested in the ECU for automotive Industry use-case(UC-01)
WP3 has various links with the other WPs of EECONE. Data on recycling, reuse and repair will be delivered by WP2. Test and validation of the tools will be performed thanks to WP2 and WP4 use cases. WP5 will provide industrials best practices and compliance with standard requirements that will help defining the database structure, the new metrics and the tool specifications.
Work Package Leader : 3DS together with CEA
Involved Partners : 4MOD, ACORDE, ANIAH, AT&S, CEA, D&R, Dassault Systemes, Fraunhofer, HUA, IFAG (Infineon), IMEC, Nerosubianco, OZU, RISE, STM, SVS, TST, UL-IMF, DTI, ECODC, INP-GRE, Arceli, SSOL, STGNB2 SAS, UCL, VITESCO