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OCTOBER 2018 VOL. 61 NO. 7 Caption: Proactive yield perfection (PYP) is a comprehensive systems-level approach to perfecting yield through detailed surveillance and sophisticated modeling. Source: Rudolph Technologies F E AT U R E S YIELD | Perfecting yield with proactive optimization throughout the process and across the supply chain Increasingly dispersed and complex supply chains require a proactive, integrated, systems-level approach to optimizing yields. Prasad Bachiraju, Rudolph Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, Mass. MEMORY | Emerging memories for the zettabyte era The scaling of traditional...

Perfecting yield with proactive optimization throughout the process and across the supply chain PRASAD BACHIRAJU, Rudolph Technologies, Inc., Wilmington, Mass. Increasingly dispersed and complex supply chains require a proactive, integrated, systems-level approach to optimizing yields. s IC manufacturers adopt advanced packaging processes and heterogeneous, multi-chip integration schemes to feed ever-greater consumer demand for more computing power in smaller and smaller spaces, their supply chains have become increasingly complex. A fab-wide view of the process, not so long ago the holy grail...

PYP collects data in a single database that integrates vital product parameter data from every die at each step in the process with performance and condition data from all tools, factories and providers in the supply chain. It provides unprecedented visibility of the entire manufacturing process from design, through wafer fab, test, assembly and packaging. Consolidating the data in a single, internally consistent database eliminates the considerable time often consumed in simply locating and aligning data stored in disparate databases at multiple facilities, and allows analytical routines to...

definable reports. The process flow includes front-end wafer-based processing, with singulated die then transferred to tape and subsequently to rectangular panels for back-end processing (FIGURE 3). FIGURE 2. Numerous locations worldwide feed information into a single big-data cluster where multiple software solutions operate on the pre-aligned and internally consistent data set. located front-end fabs, a fabless design facility, oursourced manufacturing (foundries), and outsourced assembly and test (OSAT). Finished modules integrate data processing, data storage, RF communications, power management,...

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