Defect-Based Testing

Munich, Germany

Semiconductor and integrated circuit developments continue to proceed at an incredible pace. For example, today's application-specific ICs and microprocessors can contain upwards of 100 million transistors. Traditional testing relies on …

Semiconductor Reliability and Product Qualification

Munich, Germany

Package reliability and qualification continues to evolve with the electronics industry. New electronics applications require new approaches to reliability and qualification. In the past, reliability meant discovering, characterizing and modeling failure mechanisms, and determining their impact on the reliability of the circuit. Today, reliability can involve tradeoffs between performance and reliability; assessing the impact of …