L. Balado, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya
The paper deals with a European experience of education in industrial test of ICs and SoCs using remote testing facilities. The project addresses the problem of the shortage in microelectronics engineers aware with the new challenge of testing mixed-signal SoCs for multimedia/telecom market. It aims at providing test training facilities at a European scale in both initial and continuing education contexts. This is done by allowing the academic and industrial partners of the consortium to train engineers using the common test resources center (CRTC) hosted by LIRMM (Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Micro?lectronique de Montpellier, France). CRTC test tools include up-to-date/high-tech testers that are fully representative of real industrial testers as used on production testfloors. At the end of the project, it is aimed at reaching a cruising speed of about 16 trainees per year per center. Each trainee will have attend at least one one-week training using the remote test facilities of CRTC.
Citation:
Y. Bertrand, M-L. Flottes, L. Balado, J. Figueras, A. Biasizzo, F. Novak, S. Di Carlo, P. Prinetto, N. Pricopi, H-J. Wunderlich, J-P. Van der Heyden, "Test Engineering Education in Europe: the EuNICE-Test Project," mse, pp.85, 2003 International Conference on Microelectronics Systems Education (MSE'03), 2003