Introduction to Integrated Yield Management
Quick Ramp DFM Best Practices

Now offering a one-day Yield Management workshop focusing on QuickRampDFM™ Best Practices is a HIGH LEVEL Yield Management - Quick Ramp Overview of faster Product “Time-to-Money” for FAB or Fabless Companies. The Workshop benchmarks methodologies against the world’s best by providing an intensive and interactive module series to achieve the highest level of semiconductor productivity.

How can you benefit by signing up for the Yield Management Quick Ramp™ Workshop? You will learn Product Lifecycles; NPI Pro, Fault Pro, Default Pro, Analysis Pro, Process Pro, Structure Pro, Speed Pro, Project Pro, Defect Models, Modeling Product Yield, Systematic Faults and have a group exercise. All participants will find value by attending this workshop.

We offer this and all courses as On Site Training

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Engineers, Managers and Support Personnel for:

  • Engineers / Managers / Support Personnel
  • Device Structure Development
  • Process Development & Integration
  • Product Design/Product Engineering
  • Library & Yield Characterization
  • Process Operations
  • Test & Test Analysis
  • Physical Failure Analysis
  • Fab/Foundry Operations Support
  • Equipment, Materials & Supply Vendors

  • WHAT THIS 1 DAY COURSE COVERS:

  • Introduction and Objectives Expectations and background QuickRampDFM™ Best Practices is a HIGH LEVEL QUICK RAMP OVERVIEW of faster Product “Time-to-Money” for Fab or Fabless Companies. It features: Product Lifecycles; NPI Pro [feasibility / development / manufacturing] Fault Pro [limited yield concept / macro & micro models] Defect Pro [yield scaling] Analysis Pro [root cause analysis: zones / product sensitivity]; Process Pro [operations / recipes / monitors / particles / pattern defects]; Structure Pro [design / critical structures / entitled yield] Speed Pro [cycle time / queueing/ wip] Project Pro [project management / communication / problem solving]


  • Fault Pro explores Fault Concepts for design / parametrics / random defects; micro models & die windowing for systematic vs random yield; clustering; defect distributions; fail probability; and the critical area concept to scale yield between designs & to predict yields before any silicon processing.


  • Defect Proexplores in depth Defect Models for yield by die size / feature size / circuits / shrinks / new generation. Advanced analysis & scaling techniques and Modeling Product Yield in a foundry are explored. A Defect Pro exercise completes this module.


  • Defect Pro Group Exercise


  • Analysis Pro explores the many types of Systematic Faults using analytical techniques for design, parameter & test limited yield, including techniques of design schmoos, wafer zones, wafer patterns, process windows, time slides, product / parameter sensitivities [correlations / distributions], and equipment commonality. Calculations of design / parametric / test limited yield are included.


  • Included in this course is a manual filled with color illustrations.

    INSTRUCTOR:

    Bob Carlson worked for the semiconductor division at IBM where he developed many of the yield management techniques and test structures for yield enhancement. In the late 70’s, Bob’s engineering team achieved world-class photo limited yields to maximize the 3000 WSD fab output. In the early 80’s, his team brought on line the world’s first 5-inch CMOS fab and piloted the first yielded 8-inch wafers. Bob was the manager of IBM’s high performance bipolar semiconductor development and pre-production fab where his team developed the fastest, densest bipolar memory and logic products for IBM mainframes. Bob was part of the IBM Global Services organization providing Lean Manufacturing Implementation and Concepts Consulting (Cycle-Time) to clients. In 1994 he left IBM to provide industry Cycle Time and Yield Management consulting. Bob holds BS and MS Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maine.


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