Download or read book Wafer-Level Testing and Test Planning for Integrated Circuits written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relentless scaling of semiconductor devices and high integration levels have lead to a steady increase in the cost of manufacturing test for integrated circuits (ICs). The higher test cost leads to an increase in the product cost of ICs. Product cost is a major driver in the consumer electronics market, which is characterized by low profit margins and the use of a variety of core-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Packaging has also been recognized as a significant contributor to the product cost for SoCs. Packaging cost and the test cost for packaged chips can be reduced significantly by the use of effective test methods at the wafer level, also referred to as wafer sort. Test application time is a major practical constraint for wafer sort, even more than for package test. Therefore, not all the scan-based digital test patterns can be applied to the die under test. This thesis first presents a test-length selection technique for wafer-level testing of core-based SoCs. This optimization technique, which is based on a combination of statistical yield modeling and integer linear programming (ILP), provides the pattern count for each embedded core during wafer sort such that the probability of screening defective dies is maximized for a given upper limit on the SoC test time. A large number of wafer-probe contacts can potentially lead to higher yield loss during wafer sort. An optimization framework is therefore presented to address test access mechanism (TAM) optimization and test-length selection for wafer-level testing, when constraints are placed on the number of number of chip pins that can be contacted. Next, a correlation-based signature analysis technique is presented 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.