Enabling unprecedented technological innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing, the semiconductor industry is experiencing a rapid shift in its development landscape. Such landscape is characterized by a dramatic increase in process steps during both the design and the manufacturing phases. It is also characterized by a sharp reduction in development schedules and a reliance on multiple disciplines and hybrid technologies.
Introspect Technology’s unique tools provide multi-disciplinary access to test and measurement equipment, thus enabling design engineers, post-silicon validation engineers, software engineers, applications and product engineers, production test engineers, and sales engineers to perform testing throughout the process of a product introduction and throughout its lifetime.
High-performance equipment access is often the single largest roadblock to the efficient qualification and verification of semiconductor devices before they ramp to volume production. Each interface macro in a given device needs to be thoroughly characterized, and this creates a need for large and numerous bench setups. The required quantity and scale of conventional equipment is not tenable even for the largest semiconductor manufacturers, and this is the major gap that the Introspect Technology C Series has successfully filled. By literally allowing each engineer to get access to a tester from Introspect, an organization accelerates the critical step of post-silicon validation and gains deep insight into its device performance limits.
In the consumer electronics market, incredibly rapid volume ramps result in the need for sampling and characterizing extremely large device lots. When thousands of devices need to be characterized, test tools are required to enable accurate measurement, rapid data collection, large concurrent channel count, and automation all in one environment. This creates a conundrum for the semiconductor manufacturer: using a large number of conventional bench equipment is prohibitive, and using a conventional production ATE does not provide enough characterization features. Introspect is the only equipment vendor that is able to bridge this gap between bench and ATE, thus easily enabling the high-volume characterization paradigm!