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14th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'05)
Flash Memory Die Sort by a Sample Classification Method
Calcutta, India
December 18-December 21
ISBN: 0-7695-2481-8
Yu-Chun Dawn, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Jen-Chieh Yeh, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Cheng-Wen Wu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Chia-Ching Wang, Winbond Electronics Corporation, Taiwan
Yung-Chen Lin, Winbond Electronics Corporation, Taiwan
Chao-Hsun Chen, Winbond Electronics Corporation, Taiwan
As the memory cells keep scaling down and designs are getting bigger and faster, uncertainty is becoming one of the greatest challenges for the semiconductor industry. Unexpected and unpredictable behaviors of devices usually lead to poor quality and reliability. Low-cost test techniques that improves die sorting accuracy thus are critical for advanced devices. Flash memory is more prone to such problem compared with others. Large capacity, high density, and complicated cell structure makes flash memory cell behavior difficult to predict precisely. Even when we test the dies on the same wafer it can be bothering, as each of them may ask for different test condition due to geometric process variation. As a fast and easy-to-use method to solve the problem, we propose a sample classification method. It is not only effective for flash memory testing, but also for other types of circuits that face similar test problem. Experimental result shows that the method solves the flash memory die sort problem efficiently and accurately. The test time is greatly reduced-for an industrial chip, the test time is reduced from 8,817 ms to 718 ms. Moreover, the proposed approach is also suitable for design-for-testability (DFT) implementation that can easily be integrated with a commodity or embedded memory.
Index Terms:
die sort, flash memory,memory testing, test flow, wafer probe
Citation:
Yu-Chun Dawn, Jen-Chieh Yeh, Cheng-Wen Wu, Chia-Ching Wang, Yung-Chen Lin, Chao-Hsun Chen, "Flash Memory Die Sort by a Sample Classification Method," ats, pp.182-187, 14th Asian Test Symposium (ATS'05), 2005
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