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10th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'01)
Guardband Determination for the Detection of Off-State and Junction Leakages in DRAM Testing
Kyoto, Japan
November 19-November 21
ISBN: 0-7695-1378-6
Mill-Jer Wang, Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
R.-L. Jiang, Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
J.-W. Hsia, Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation
Chih-Hu Wang, Chung-Hua University
Jwu E. Chen, Chung-Hua University
The chips with defects, which escape the test, will cause the quality problem and will hurt the goodwill and decline the revenue. It is important to look for a set of effective and efficient tests in production line. In this paper, a case study of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM)/SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics RAM) is used to demonstrate the guardband determination of testing the off-state and junction leakages in silicon debug stage for the production. The consideration of test derivation is both to enhance the yield and to improve the product quality with low-test cost. The electrical modeling of DRAM cell, test selection and guardband determination will be introduced. It is shown that the new created tests can distinguish the normal and abnormal cell current leakages. Promising wafer test results are obtained that the wafer test yield is improved over 8% by laser repairing the weak (defective) cells with the spares and it achieves a reasonable final test quality.
Citation:
Mill-Jer Wang, R.-L. Jiang, J.-W. Hsia, Chih-Hu Wang, Jwu E. Chen, "Guardband Determination for the Detection of Off-State and Junction Leakages in DRAM Testing," ats, pp.151, 10th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'01), 2001
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