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Silicon validation and yield improvement
 
 
The client
A leading US based semiconductor manufacturer and a market leader in Microcontrollers for automotive applications.
 
The challenge

The challenge facing Wipro’s team of engineers was to significantly reduce silicon validation time and cost, improve the yield and achieve quicker time to market.

 
The solution

With their strong background in DFT and functional test pattern generation, Wipro’s team of engineers firstly automated the test flow for making the patterns Tester-friendly and improved the test program to control yield loss at probe testing, eliminating genuinely good parts being rejected. The team also handled silicon testing till production maturity level and ported silicon test program to a more cost effective ATE.

Role of Wipro engineers in silicon validation:
Generation of test vectors for functional as well as stuck at fault testing inclusive of Icc measurement, memory testing and characterization vectors.
Automation of existing test flow of ATE
Generation of test program with automation process successfully
Development of production level test program for silicon and handoff for probe
Execution of latch up test and life cycle test.
Generation of silicon test audit report
Porting of production level qualified silicon test program from high end to low end ATE
On line support in analyzing silicon failure

Key highlights of the project

Highly robust Test vectors with >95% first pass, reduction in the test cycle time. This helped the client to ship parts for development work with high qualification level.
Automation of test flow reduced the test program generation time from over ten days to as low as one day. It also controlled errors that creep into the test program due to manual integration of test flow files.
Documented test flow automation, characterization process. This helped the client’s product engineers to understand the process.
 
The benefit
Client could push more parts through first level silicon validation faster, meeting Engineering sample commitments to their client.
Client could complete thorough validation of many parts, enabling faster volume ramp-up.
Test vectors for all aspect of silicon verification delivered from Wipro’s own facility.
Participation of Wipro engineers in silicon validation accelerated porting of qualified silicon test program to low end tester.
The Wipro team’s DFT expertise helped to make the test program more robust, provide on line debug support, reduce test cycle time and cost.
 
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