During the manufacture of a MOS capacitor, different cleaning processes were used by two manufacturing systems operating in parallel. Process A used a standard cleaning solution, while Process B used ...

Cell-aware diagnosis is a new and effective way to detect defects inside standard cells. Industry standard failure analysis (FA) results from a major foundry show that cell-aware diagnosis is very ...

This example illustrates methods for controlling the order of rows and columns in a comparative Pareto chart. The following statements create a data set named FAILURE7: proc format; value procfmt 1 = ...

As design rules shrink to 45-nm and smaller, defect and yield engineers are becoming increasingly concerned about the quality of the defect frequency data coming from their review tools. To allow ...

There are many problem-solving techniques available to managers and most of them are powerful tools for reaching a solution. However, one stands out as the power tool to use for deciding ‘which’ ...