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Hunting For Hardware-Related Errors In Data Centers
Why tracking defects is so difficult in the fab, and what’s being done to change that.
Bump Reliability Is Challenged By Latent Defects
Automated solutions are in the works, but they will take time to develop.
Ramping Up IC Predictive Maintenance
Data centers and automotive chips begin using on-die circuitry to predict silicon failures.
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Zero Trust Security In Chip Manufacturing
Why security is becoming so critical in fabs.
Blogs
Onto Innovation’s Wei Zhao examines GaN’s advantages over silicon, such as increased electron mobility, heat resistance, and lower energy consumption, in A Star Is Born: Gallium Nitride And The Coming Age Of Compound Semiconductors.
Nordson’s Daniel Chir and Johnson Toh describe a plasma process that lowers the risk of overtreatment or heat related issues, in Effect Of RF Plasma Process Gas Chemistry And Electrode Configuration On The Removal Of Copper Lead Frame Oxidation.
Teradyne’s David Vondran and Rodrigo Carrillo-Ramirez identify three things that will need to happen to make millimeter wave profitable and viable, in The 5G mmWave Commercialization Effort Is Underway.
Advantest’s Adir Zonta shows how to increase test capacity without expanding engineering facilities, in Engineering Test Station Facilitates Post-Silicon Validation.
Nova’s Wei Ti Lee, Sarah Okada, Lawrence Rooney, Feng Zhang, and Benjamin Hickey explain using in-line secondary ion mass spectroscopy to improve implant process control, in Ion Implantation Applications For In-Line SIMS Metrology.
Sponsor White Papers
Using Machine Learning To Automate Debug Of Simulation Regression Results
How verification engineers can more efficiently analyze, bin, triage, probe, and discover the root causes of regression failures.
Mechanical Characterization Of Ultra Low-K Dielectric Films
How mechanical reliability monitoring of ULK films is becoming increasingly important to rapidly identify process variation and sustain high device yields.
Ion Implantation Applications For In-Line SIMS Metrology
Using secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS) in-line to measure peak concentration, peak depth, and dose simultaneously provides better implant process control.
Maintaining Vehicles Of The Future
Unleashing deep data to fuel predictive and preventive maintenance.
Research Special Report
Chip Industry Startup Funding Annual Report & Analysis: 2022
More than 1,000 chip industry-related companies raised $32.7B across 1,200 funding rounds in 2022.
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