Failure and Yield Analysis Online Course - Introduction

Millions of dollars wasted. Lost competitive advantage. Idle manufacturing lines and customer frustrations. These are the all-too-common consequences of semiconductor failures. In today's economy, competent failure analysts are vital to solve these problems before their companies suffer the repercussions. However, as circuits grow more and more  complicated, engineers can easily find themselves entangled in a semiconductor  "labyrinth" -- searching for a microscopic failure among millions of  transistors. With the wide spectrum of available analysis tools and the  ever-decreasing probability of defect discovery, failure analysis can quickly become overwhelming even for the experienced analyst. The Failure and Yield Analysis Online Course is the online adaptation of the 4-day Failure  and Yield Analysis course we offer that covers effective analysis tools and  presents systematic process flows that simplify defect localization and  characterization. By focusing on a "Do it Right the First Time" approach, the class  will give you the appropriate methodology to successfully locate and characterize defects to determine the root cause of failure.