Abstract: This study proposes an improved sparrow search algorithm based on an infrared temperature-data-optimized back propagation neural network (ISSA-BPNN) for an airborne circuit board chip fault diagnosis method that cannot diagnose dynamic failures. First, an infrared thermal imaging camera collected circuit board chip temperature data to establish a feature model of static, dynamic, and statistical characteristics of the circuit board chip warming process. We used sine chaos mapping to initialize the sparrow population distribution, the levy flight improvement finder sparrow location update, and an improved sparrow search algorithm to optimize the weight parameters of the BP neural network. Finally, the temperature feature model was input to the ISSA-BP neural network for training and testing to complete the circuit board chip fault diagnosis. The experiments used an avionics system power supply circuit board for reliability analysis, and the results revealed that the method achieved a comprehensive fault diagnosis rate of 97.84% under different circuit board operating conditions.