Synthetic image generation for solder joint inspection

A system comprising:

• a trained generative adversarial network (GAN) generator configured to:
• receive, during a circuit board population process, an image;
• and
• generate a synthetic x-ray image, the synthetic x-ray image is a prediction of a real x-ray image that will be generated by an x-ray inspection later in the circuit board population process;
• processing circuitry configured to:
• determine, based on the synthetic x-ray image, whether the circuit board will pass or fail the circuit board population process;
• and
• cause the circuit board to be scrapped or adjust a parameter of the circuit board population process responsive to determining the circuit board will fail.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations for circuit board quality analysis, the operations comprising:

• receiving, by a trained generative adversarial network (GAN) generator and during a circuit board population process, an image;
• generating, by the trained GAN generator, a synthetic x-ray image, the synthetic x-ray image is a prediction of a real x-ray image that will be generated by an x-ray inspection later in the circuit board population process;
• determining, based on the synthetic x-ray image, whether the circuit board will pass or fail the circuit board population process;
• and
• causing the circuit board to be scrapped or adjusting a parameter of the circuit board population process responsive to determining the circuit board will fail.