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Reliability

A semiconductor device is only as good as its reliability: the probability that it will perform its function under specified conditions for a set time. Today's ICs possess shorter lifetimes and reduced reliability margins, and rapid developments have led to the use of materials that are not well characterized. While reliability levels are at an all-time high level in the industry, rapid changes may lead to unintentional failures and the inability to predict when devices might fail.

Your company needs competent engineers and scientists to solve reliability problems. Semitracks' Semiconductor Reliability online training course offers detailed instruction on how to determine what failure mechanisms might occur, test for them, develop models for them, and eliminate them from the product.

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What Will I Learn By Taking This Course?

  1. Overview of Reliability and Statistics. Participants learn the fundamentals of statistics, sample sizes, distributions, and their parameters.
  2. Failure Mechanisms. Participants learn the nature and manifestation of a variety of failure mechanisms that can occur at both the die and package levels. These include time-dependent dielectric breakdown, hot carrier degradation, electromigration, stress-induced voiding, moisture, corrosion, contamination, thermomechanical effects, etc.
  3. Test Structures. Participants learn how test structures can be designed to test for a particular failure mechanism.
  4. Test Strategies. Participants learn the basics of testing test structures, conducting design screening tests, and performing burn-in testing effectively.

Course Objectives

  1. The course will provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the failure mechanisms, test structures, equipment, and testing methods used to achieve today's high reliability components.
  2. Participants will be able to gather data, determine the best way to plot data, and make inferences from that data.
  3. The course will identify and explain how major failure mechanisms are observed, modeled, and eliminated.
  4. The course offers a variety of video demonstrations of analysis techniques, so the participants can get an understanding of the types of results they might expect to see with their equipment.
  5. Participants will be able to identify basic test structures and how they are used to help quantify reliability on semiconductor devices.
  6. Participants will be able to knowledgeably implement screens that are appropriate to assure the reliability of a component.
  7. Participants will be able to identify appropriate tools to purchase when starting or expanding a laboratory.

Course Contents

Reliability

  • Announcements
  • 4-Day Reliability Course Forum

Module 1 - Reliability Introduction, Statistics and Distributions & More

  • Introduction to Semiconductor Reliability
  • Acceleration and Number of Failures
  • Plotting Data
  • Reliability Distribution Types
  • Basic Reliability Statistics
  • Which Distribution Should I Use?
  • Accelerated Testing Statistics
  • Populations and Sample Sizes

Module 2 - Die-Level Failure Mechanisms

  • Time Dependent Dielectric Breakdown Overview
  • Hot Carrier Degradation - Overview
  • Electromigration
  • Stress Induced Voiding - Case History
  • Stress Induced Voiding

Module 3 - Package-Level and Use Condition Failure Mechanisms

  • Ionic Contamination
  • Moisture and Corrosion
  • Thermomechanical Stress - Part 1
  • Thermomechanical Stress - Part 2
  • Thermal Degradation
  • Electrical Overstress and ESD
  • Radiation Effects

Module 4 - Testing Aspects of Semiconductor Reliability

  • Test Structures - Basics
  • Reliability Test Structures
  • Self Stressing Test Structures
  • Reliability Test Equipment - Wafer Level
  • Reliability Test Equipment - Probes
  • Reliability Test Equipment - Packaged Parts
  • Developing Electrical Screens

Final Test

  • Semiconductor Reliability – Final Test

Certificate

  • 4-Day Reliability Course (Online Version) Certificate

Documents

  • Reliability Distributions
  • Reliability Distribution Examples
  • Accelerated Testing Statistics
  • Populations and Sample Sizes
  • Electromigration
  • Stress Induced Voiding - Introduction
  • Ionic Contamination
  • Thermomechanical Stress - Part 1
  • Thermomechanical Stress - Part 2
  • Thermal Degradation
  • Developing Electrical Screens
  • Reliability Test Structures
  • Self Stressing Test Structures
  • Test Structures - Basics
  • Reliability Test Equipment: Wafer Level
  • Reliability Test Equipment: Probes