2007 IEEE SW Test Workshop
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Tutorial Session - Probe Card Cleaning
Dinner Session - Year in Review and Keynote
Opening Session - Chairman's Welcome and Lifetime Achievement Award
Session 1 - Probe to Pad Mechanisms
Session 2 - Controlling Pad Damage
Session 3 - Strategic Design Methodologies
Session 4 - Large Area Array Probing
Session 5 - Advanced Probe Card Technologies
Session 6 - RF Probing
Session 7 - Probe Potpourri
Session 8 - Probe Interfaces and Connectivity
Session 9 - Probe Challenges
Poster Session


 

Tutorials - Probe Card Cleaning
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster


"Probe Card Cleaning – A Short Tutorial"

Jerry Broz, Ph.D.
Gene Humphrey
Wayne Fitzgerald
International Test Solutions, Inc.

 

 


"Online Semi-radius Probe Tip Cleaning and Reshaping"
Sam McKnight
Michael Agbesi
IBM Microelectronics

 

 


"Probe Tip Clean on Demand"

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Rob Marcelis
Salland Engineering

 


DINNER SESSION
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Probe Year in Review"

Bill Mann
General Chair Emeritus
william.mann@ieee.org

Roger Sinsheimer
Xandex

 


Keynote Speaker - "Sort Test Technology Development"

Vikas Sharma
Wafer Test Manager
Intel Corporation

 

 



CHAIRMAN'S WELCOME
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Welcome to Semiconductor Wafer (SW) Test Workshop 2007"

Jerry Broz, Ph.D.
SWTW General Chair
SW Test Workshop

William Mann
Chair Emeritus

Founder of SW Test Workshop

 


"SWTW Lifetime Achievement Award" as presented by Jerry Broz, Ph.D.

Awarded to ...

William Mann

Chair Emeritus

Founder of SW Test Workshop

 

 



Session 1 - PROBE TO PAD CONTACT MECHANISMS
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Mark Inspection as Part of Quality and Reliability Tests In Automotive Devices"

A. Garcia
Texas Instruments, Inc.

T. Weiss
U. Efrat
I. Griberg
Camtek USA, Inc.

 


"Effect of Different Wafer Pad Metallizations on ViProbe® Scrub Marks"
Sylvia Ehrler, Ph.D.
Feinmetall GmbH
 

 


Winner - Best Data Presentation

"Electrical Contact Resistance - The Key Parameter in Probe Card Performance"
January Kister
Steve Hopkins
Microprobe, Inc.



Session 2 - CONTROLLING PAD DAMAGE
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Wafer Probing Scrub Analysis to Optimize KGD Applications"

Ying Wang, Ph.D.
Rod Martens, Ph.D.
Sunil Wijeyesekera
Ken Matsubayashi
Tom Napier
Amy Leong
FormFactor, Inc.
 

 


"Control of Pad Damage Using Prober Operational Parameters"

Deborah Miller
Micron Technology

Jerry Broz, Ph.D.
International Test Solutions

Edward Robinson, Ph.D.
Hyphenated Systems, LLC


"Closing the Loop: Incorporating Sort Floor Data to Improve Probe Card Performance"

John Strom
Applied Precision, LLC

Alan Romreill
Spansion

 



Session 3 - STRATEGIC DESIGN METHODOLOGIES
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"New Pathfinding and Supplier Investigation Strategy"

Roy Swart
Ethan Caughey
Intel Corporation

   


"Key Methods in Reducing Pad Crack Risk at Probing Low-k Wafers"

Alan Romreill
Spansion
Amy Leong
FormFactor, Inc.
 


"Design Considerations for Parametric RF Probing in Production Test Environments"

Roger Hayward
Cascade MicroTech, Inc.
   


"Measuring Z-Accuracy Using a Force Sensor"

Sancho Adam
Electroglas, Inc.
   



Session 4 - LARGE AREA ARRAY PROBING
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"
Probes A New Dimension in Probe Count"

Michael Huebner, Ph.D.
Satoshi Hatsumori
David Pritzkau
FormFactor, Inc.

Yosuke Kawamata
Shoichi Matsuo
Tera Probe Inc.

 


"Reinforcement of PCB using Advanced Stiffeners for High Pin Count Devices"

Nicolas Salles
Rehan Kazmi, Ph.D.
SV Probe Technology

Wayne Nelson
Reid-Ashman Manufacturing
 

 

"Challenges in Testing High Force 300mm Probe Card Arrays"

Rod Schwartz
Mark McLaren
Integrated Technology Corporation

 

 



Session 5 - ADVANCED PROBE CARD TECHNOLOGIES
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Revolutionary Changes in C4 Wafer Test Probe Card Technologies"

Ethan Caughey
Roy Swart
Intel Corporation

 


"Advanced Probe Card Technology Enables Specialty Memory Wafer Test Requirements"

Andrei Berar
F. C. Chong
Eric Chieh
NanoNexus, Inc.
 


"3D-MEMS Probe for Fine Pitch Probing"

Ryuichiro Mori
Japan Electric Materials Corp


"Hybrid Wafer Testing Probe Card"

Brian Moore
Chris Sellathamby
Jeff Hintzke
Steve Slupski
Scanimetrics, Inc.



Session 6 - RF PROBING
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Multi-site Probing for Consumer RF Applications"

Jeff Arasmith
Roger Hayward
Cascade Microtech, Inc.
 


"Advanced Probecard Architecture for Lower-cost RF Wafer Testing"

Brian Moore
Scanimetrics, Inc.

 

 

 

"Probe Card Characterization in Time and Frequency Domain"

Gert Hohenwarter
GateWave Northern, Inc.
 



Session 7 - PROBE POURRI
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"ISMI Probe Council Probe Specification Guidelines and Cost of Ownership"

Jack Courtney
IBM Microelectronics
Oliver Nagler
Infineon
Stu Crippen
Intel Corporation

Jens Kober
AMD


"Challenges of Vertical Probing for the 48 Core 11,700 Bump Count Vega2 Processor"

Tony Altinis
Janet Wu
Samy Makar
Azul Systems

Bob Rogers
Wentworth Labs


Winner - Best Technical Presentation
"ROUTE60™ : A New Vertical Probing Technology"

Roberto Crippa
Stefano Lazzari
Technoprobe, S.p.A.

Raffaele Vallauri
Massimo Gervasoni
STMicroelectronics


"Low Yield Response in High Volume Production"

Haydee Barajas
Al Wegleitner
Texas Instruments, Inc.

 

 



Session 8 - INTERFACES AND CONNECTIVITY
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Theory and Test Methods for Board-to-Board Interposer Technologies
"

Roger Sinsheimer
Xandex, Inc.


Winner - Most Inspirational Presentation
"Thin Film Interposer Probes in Production
"

Chris Sullivan
John Hagios
Steve Duda
Sally Francis
IBM Microelectronics

 


"Stud Bump Technology for Space Transformer Lifetime Improvement on Cobra Probe "

William Palcisko
Isabelle Garidi, Ph. D.
SV Probe Technologies

Christian Degen, Ph.D.
Infineon

 

"WSP- Cost Effective Wafer Scale Probing of WLCSP Wafer Level Chip Scale Package"

Norman J. Armendariz, Ph.D.
Texas Instruments, Inc.

 


Session 9 - INTERFACES AND CONNECTIVITY
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

"Sort Process and Its Challenges on CMT Platform
"

Sabita Roy
Intel Corporation


"The Influences of Signal Matching During Parallel Multi-Site Testing
"

Eddie McClanahan
Al Wegleitner
Texas Instruments, Inc.

 


Winner - Best Presentation, Tutorial in Nature
"Taguchi's Method Applied to Probe Card Development"

Vincent Reynaud
Mesatronics

 


POSTER SESSION
Top | Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 | Session 4 | Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 7 | Session 8 | Session 9 | Poster

Mobility of Metallic Contamination
Brett Crump

Micron Technology

D.O.D. TECHNOLOGY Probe Card
Vincent Reynaud
Mesatronics

Probe Card Metrology ‘LEAN’ Work Cell for Probe Card Surgeons
Ricky Rose
Intel - Ireland

 

Chemical Probe Card Cleaning Methods
Barry Weavers
Left Coast Instruments

Winner - Best Poster Presentation
Design Considerations for Parametric-RF Probing in Production Test Environments

Roger Hayward and Bob Hansen
Cascade MicroTech

60-um Vertical Probing
Fred Megna
Micronics Japan, Co, LTD

Advanced Confocal Microscopy for Rapid 3D Analysis
Edward Robinson, Ph.D.
Hyphenated Systems, LLC

SWTW 2006 Probe Card Metrology Panel Summary
Brett Crump
SW Test Workshop, Technical Chair

Development of Laser Drilling Systems for 300mm Vertical Probe Cards
D. M. Karnakis, J. Baker, A.J. Kearsley, A. Ferguson, M.R.H. Knowles
Oxford Lasers

Rocket science, star mapping vision algorithms and common sense for

uncompromising probe card tester performance
Oscar Beijert
Beijert Engineering

 

 


SWTW 2007 Chairs:

  • Dr. Jerry Broz, International Test Solutions, General Chair

  • Brett Crump, Micron Technologies, Technical Program Chair

  • William Mann, Gneral Chair Emeritus

  • Maddie Harwood, CEM, Inc.,Finance Chair

  • Meredith M. Griffith, CEM, Inc., Registration / EXPO Coordinator

SWTW 2007 Steering Committee:

  • Nadine Aldahhan, Freescale Semiconductor

  • Jack Courtney, IBM Microelectronics

  • Warren "Stu" Crippen, Intel

  • Michael Egloff, AMD, Expo Coordinator

  • Michael Harris, Texas Instruments

  • Ken Karklin, Touchdown Technologies, Poster Session Coordinator / Program Committee

  • Ger Koch, NXP Semiconductor

  • Patrick Mui, JEM-America, Poster Session Coordinator / Program Committee

  • Rey Rincon, Integrated Test Corporation

  • Roger Sinsheimer, Xandex, Program Committee

  • Fred Taber, BiTS Workshop, Proceedings Coordinator