Patent Document ID: 10048312
Application ID: 15715238
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: integrating a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and a computing device, wherein the PCBA contains: a plurality of functional areas and a plurality of non-functional areas on a printed circuit board (PCB), wherein the plurality of functional areas and the plurality of non-functional areas on the PCB consist of high coefficient of thermal expansion components susceptible to solder cracks and thermally sensitive components susceptible to thermal defects; stressing a non-functional area of the plurality of non-functional areas of the PCBA that is susceptible to defects using destructive cycling tests, wherein the plurality of non-functional areas contains an embedded component susceptible to defects; placing an apparatus that simulates voltage, temperature, and cycle testing as the destructive cycling on a surface of the PCBA containing at least the plurality of non-functional areas; connecting the apparatus of the PCBA to a controller device, wherein the controller device aids the apparatus in simulating the voltage, temperature, and cycle testing; applying destructive testing to failure of the embedded component susceptible to defect by: exposing the non-functional area to heat, exposing the non-functional area to strain, exposing the non-functional area to humidity, and exposing the non-functional area to flux; monitoring degradation of the embedded component susceptible to defects in real-time in response to applying to applying destructive testing to failure of the embedded component susceptible to the defect; deriving information from the applied destructive testing by detecting effects of the heat, the strain, the humidity, and the flux on the non-functional area, responsive to deriving information from the applied destructive testing, sending the derived information to a repository within the computing device; and responsive to deriving information from the applied destructive testing, outputting the derived information to a user interface within the computing device.