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Electrical Test Guard Bands

Electrical Test Parameter Cpk

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SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING

 

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What is a semiconductor?

The p-n Junction

The Junction Diode

The Bipolar transistor

The MOSFET

The JFET

     

Semiconductor Quality

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TS-16949

TL-9000

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MIL-PRF-38535

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Failure Analysis

FA Techniques

FAILURE VERIFICAtion

Optical Inspection

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DECAPSULATION

Sectioning

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LEM

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SEM/TEM / EDX/WDX

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Die-related Failures

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Thermal Oxidation

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Resist Processing

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Diffusion: Fick's Laws

Implant Damage Annealing

Si Epitaxial Growth

Polysilicon Deposition

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Board Processes

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Semiconductor Manufacturing

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Semiconductor Materials

Leadframes

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Semiconductor Equipment

Wafer Fab Equipment

Assembly Equipment

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Reliability Engineering

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Acceleration Test

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Vibration Tests

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Solder Joint Reliability

Life Distributions

Life Distribution Functions

Lognormal Plots

Activation Energies

    

Assembly Engineering

Copper Wirebonding

The Chip Scale Package

The Ball Grid Array

System-in-a-Package (SIP)

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Die Stacking     

Wirebond Loop Profiles

Wirebond Metallurgies

Lead Finish Guides

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Deformation and Fracture

Glass Transition Temp, Tg

        

Test Engineering

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Test Yield Models

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ATPG - Test Pattern Gen

Built-in Self Test (BIST)

JTAG Boundary-Scan

Device Test Parameters

Boolean Algebra

      

Miscellaneous Topics

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Silicon on Insulators (SOI)

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Crystalline Defects

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MEMS

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What is WEEE?

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Power Management IC's

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Phase-Locked Loop IC's

Accelerometers

Charge-Coupled Devices

Motor Controllers

Application-Specific IC's

Other IC Products

 

QUICK REFERENCES

Properties of Si Dopants

Ohmic Contacts

 

GEN. MATH / STATISTICS

Cpk Vs. ppm Table

 

ANALYSIS TOOLS

Ishikawa Diagram

Control Chart

Pareto Chart

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