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Method and apparatus for fast automated failure classification for semiconductor wafers

US6963813B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 13, 2000
Grant dateNov 8, 2005
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 13, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L22/20
  • WIPO fieldSemiconductors
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for classifying patterns of failcodes on a semiconductor wafer, in accordance with the present invention, includes determining failcodes for chips on the wafer and checking adjacent chips for each chip on the wafer having a failcode to determine a failcode pattern having a defined number of chips.

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