Dude! where´s my data? - cracking open the hermetically sealed tester

Author

Daasch, Robert ; Rehani, Manu

Author_Institution

IC Design & Test Lab., Portland State Univ., OR, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

26-28 Oct. 2004

Firstpage

1428

Abstract

ATE customers realize that testers that keep test data "hermetically sealed" in production mode are a barrier to profitability. This data is needed for process/yield improvement, adaptive control, product characterization, reliability improvement/burn-in elimination, test floor SPC, calibration, and test repeatability etc. Subcontractor and foundry manufacturing increases the complexity of getting the data. The views on this topic appear to fall into four camps: namely the traditionalist camp, the mainframe camp, the Wintel camp and the red hat camp.

Keywords

automatic test equipment; hermetic seals; profitability; ATE customers; Wintel camp; adaptive control; burn-in elimination; calibration; hermetically sealed tester; mainframe camp; process improvement; product characterization; profitability; red hat camp; reliability improvement; test floor SPC; test repeatability; traditionalist camp; yield improvement; Hardware; Hermetic seals; Integrated circuit testing; Job production systems; Laboratories; Large scale integration; Logic design; Logic testing; Profitability; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Conference, 2004. Proceedings. ITC 2004. International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8580-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TEST.2004.1387436

Filename

1387436