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- From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
- Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 01:38:27 GMT
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- ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- : Perhaps they test a few processors on a wafer? And if the processors
- : fail then the whole wafer is thrown out? Makes sense to me.. perhaps
- : what causes problems are registration of masks or bad doping, which
- : would affect entire wafers, not just one chip on the wafer.
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- Some makers of very small semiconductors will just throw away the ring of
- die around the edge, package the rest up, and take the hit during package
- test. Note that this is for a very mature fab process, very small parts,
- very cheap packaging.
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- Lots of fab houses have what is called a "parametric test" which verifies
- test structures included on the wafer. If these fail, then the wafer
- would be chucked. If it passes, then the entire wafer would be tested.
- This is because many defects are random: particles, metal problems, etc.
-
- Scott Linn
- scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
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