Tackling Test Trade-offs from Design, Manufacturing to Market using Economic Modeling

  • Authors:
  • Erik H. Volkerink;Ajay Khoche;Linda A. Kamas;Jochen Rivoir;Hans G. Kerkhoff

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ITC '01 Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Test Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper presents a general economic modelingmethodology for digital semiconductor production testapproaches. The methodology can be used to quantifytrade-offs and evaluate test approaches, includingdistributed test across test insertions, multi-site test, on-chip/off-chip test trade-offs and ATE architectural trade-offs,with modeled cost contributions that include testtime, die area, yield, time-to-market, and engineeringeffort. It allows one to forecast how those test approachesscale with technology progress. The economic models aremodular and expandable. The modeling methodology willbe illustrated on various test approaches.