Coyette et al., 2020 - Google Patents

Latent defect screening with visually-enhanced dynamic part average testing

Coyette et al., 2020

Document ID
11092721507217507360
Author
Coyette A
Dobbelaere W
Vanhooren R
Xama N
Gomez J
Gielen G
Publication year
Publication venue
2020 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS)

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In this work, a novel outlier detection method is presented in which the data from the visual inspection of manufactured wafers are combined with the data from the electrical test. Three different implementations are built with increasing complexity in order to detect outliers that …
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