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AWafer-Level Defect Screening Technique to Reduce Test and Packaging Costs for "Big-D/Small-A" Mixed-Signal SoCs
Yokohama January 23-January 26
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2007.3580912007 Asia and South Pacific Design Au ...
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S. Bahukudumbi, Dept. of Electr.&Comput. Eng., Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Product cost is a key driver in the consumer electronics market, which is characterized by low profit margins and the use of a variety of "big-D/small-A" mixed-signal system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Packaging cost has recently emerged as a major contributor to the product cost for such SoCs. Wafer-level testing can be used to screen defective dies, thereby reducing packaging cost. We propose a new correlation-based signature analysis technique that is especially suitable for mixed-signal test at the wafer-level using low-cost digital testers. The proposed method overcomes the limitations of measurement inaccuracies at the wafer-level. A generic cost model is developed to evaluate the effectiveness of wafer-level testing of analog and digital cores in a mixed-signal SoC, and to study its impact on test escapes, yield loss and packaging costs. Experimental results are presented for a typical mixed-signal "big-D/small-A" SoC, which contains a large section of flattened digital logic and several large mixed-signal cores.
Index Terms:
mixed-signal cores, wafer-level defect screening, test cost reduction, packaging cost reduction, big-D/small-A mixed-signal system-on-chip designs, mixed-signal SoC, consumer electronics market, wafer-level testing, correlation-based signature analysis, mixed-signal test, low-cost digital testers, generic cost model, digital logic
Citation:
S. Bahukudumbi, S. Ozev, K. Chakrabarty, V. Iyengar, "AWafer-Level Defect Screening Technique to Reduce Test and Packaging Costs for "Big-D/Small-A" Mixed-Signal SoCs," asp-dac, pp.823-828, 2007 Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, 2007
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