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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:09:00 GMT
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- In article <sheldon.725671411@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- > But since these are targeted for commercial usage, they're most likely
- >only testing 1 in every 100 or so, as Mike said, a few out of each batch.
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- > Chances are also good that if any of the sample batch fails the 25 Mhz, and
- >depending on the percent failed, they'll test all chips in that batch to see
- >if any of them are salvageable before they go throwing them all out the
- >door. Of course this last one depends on the economics of how expensive it
- >is to test all the chips vs. just making new ones.
-
- Hmmm
-
- Just wondering: at what point do they test the chips, and how? Do they
- do it while at the wafer stage, before they encase it in ceramic? How
- are the connections made?
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