2005 ITRS Workshop: Roadmap Update on Test Technology and Emerging Challenges
The 2005 ITRS Workshop in Munich addressed critical updates to the Test Working Group (TWG) roadmap. Key revisions included improved reliability screens and the consolidation of logic tables, alongside new additions like DFT tools and test interface boards. A significant focus on RF and emerging technologies highlighted the increased complexity in testing as integration levels rise in SOC, MCP, and SIP designs. Challenges identified included rising test costs, the need for automated test solutions, and the impact of high-speed interfaces. The workshop emphasized the importance of innovation in testing methodologies to ensure product quality amidst growing integration.
2005 ITRS Workshop: Roadmap Update on Test Technology and Emerging Challenges
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2005 Spring ITRS Workshop :Test TWG April 2005 Munich, Germany
Roadmap Update / Plans • 2004 Updates • Minor changes to most tables • 2005 Revision • Reliability Screens update • Consolidation of various logic ATE/product tables • Addition of EDA DFT tools • Addition of test & burn-in sockets and test interface boards • Increased focus on RF
2005 ITRS Test Chapter Revision • Trends described in 2001 have held true • High speed serial I/O appeared across market segments • SOC and SIP occurred in significant numbers • Low cost, flexible (open arch) targeted test, platforms emerging • Increasing integration of analog/RF • 2003 Test Chapter focused on key challenges • Less emphasis on evolutionary trending • Increased effort to identify, define, & discuss the key test challenges • 2005 Test Chapter • Continue to focus on concise key challenges • Consolidating Logic (formerly separate ASICs, CPUs) • Addition of test sockets, DFT EDA
Key Test Drivers • Device Trends • Device interface bandwidth (data rate & pin count) • Increasing device functionality & integration (SOC, MCP, SIP) • Package form factor & electrical / mechanical characteristics • Device architectures that could break the stored stimulus & response test model (e.g. power management, redundancy) • Emerging Technologies • RF, Analog, Optical, MEMs • Increasing Test Process Complexity • To enable device customization, optimize test flow • To provide better and faster manufacturing feedback • Bottom Line Constraint is Test Cost • Boundary conditions: Affordability and maximum allowable DPM
Key Test Challenges & Opportunities • Enabling cost effective testing of: • High speed device interfaces • Highly integrated designs, SOCs, MCPs, & SIPs • RF and other emerging technologies • Testing for reliability • Containing and optimizing total product test cost • Detecting and isolating new defects and failure modes • Improving test efficiency • Automation and standardization of generating test content. • Developing the infrastructure to handle and more effectively use increasing test data volume to enable product customization, drive yield learning and provide process feedback • Correlating the test environment (& results) to end use.
Potential Test Solution Space • Includes test equipment, test tooling (e.g. probe cards), DFT and test factory infrastructure. • The optimum combination is product dependent and is driven by cost and test goals.
High Speed Serial Interfaces • Penetration of high speed interfaces into new designs continues to increase • Leading edge communications devices data rate trend extends further into GB/s • High speed serial links (1.5 to 4 Gbps, 10s to 100s) becoming ubiquitous across product types / business segments / formerly plain vanilla digital products • Transaction / event driven protocols inconsistent with stored response ATE / mfg test • Simple Loopback alone may not be sufficient to achieve needed product quality • I/O Test and DFT methods must be continue to expand deployment as well as advance more new features to enable cost effective production test and product quality
Analog and RF • Analog and RF circuits are pervasive in digital world • Mobile/wireless as % of semis increasing • Circuit performance envelope increasing • Test method innovation required • Primary test solutions continue to be based on expensive functional and parametric methods • Relatively little DFT has been developed, and what does exist lacks industry momentum • Test TWG needs increased participation in the analog/RF trends and requirements development
SOC, MCP, and SIP • Customer requirements for form factor and power consumption are driving a significant increase in design integration levels • Test complexity will increase dramatically with the combination of different classes of circuits on single die or within a single package • Disciplined, structured DFT is a requirement to reduce test complexity • Increased focus on KGD and sub-assembly test driven by cost for SIP • Mems, opticals, and other emerging or newly integrated to SIP and silicon systems and devices • SIP/MCP physical FA is much more difficult, • Test diagnostics will be more critical moving forward
BISR/BIRA Path Delay Test Strategy Analog Isolation BOST Scan+ATPG IP Core Isolation BIST Analog DSP Control Memory Logic MCU IP Core Based Design Test Implications of IP Design • Test Strategy and Integration • DFT for IP Core Based Design • Higher Level DFT • Standardization
IP Core Test Wrapper Insertion SoC Test Wrapper DFT DFT Test Data Test Data Conversion Test Controller Chip-Level Test Data Configuration of Chip-Level Test Controller and Test Access Mechanism Automated DFT Insertion • Automation of test control integration and test scheduling • Insert test wrapper and test control circuits
Reliability Screens Run Out of Gas • Critical need for development of new techniques for acceleration of latent defects • Burn-in methods limited by thermal runaway • Lowered use voltages limits voltage stress opportunity • Difficulty of determining Iddq signal versus “normal” leakage current noise • New materials and devices • Rate of introduction increasing: Cu, low k, high k, SiGe • Critical interactions of new materials increasing (Cu / low k), leadless pkg • More integration of silicon systems (MEMs, optical) appearing • More device permutations even in vanilla CMOS • Increasing mechanical and thermal sensitivities
The Overall Cost of Test $ NRE Costs $ DFT design and validation $ Test development $ Device Costs $ Die area increase $ Yield loss $ Work-Cell Cost $ Building Capital $ People $ Consumables $ Loadboards, DUT interface $ Capital Equipment Depreciation of: $ Test Equipment $ Handler/Prober Work-Cell Good Units Shipped Untested Units • Goal is to optimize product cost • Must strike a balance between cost/value of design, manufacture, yield learning, and test UPH/$M Effectiveness Measure Rejected Units
Test Capability Treadmill • DFT and test methods development is effectively constraining logic test requirements • Capability driven investment into equipment for testing Analog, RF, and SerDes circuits • MCP, SiP, and SoC drive convergence of leading edge, high density logic with flash, DRAM, SRAM, analog, RF, and SerDes • The move toward open architecture is intended to make it easier (and cheaper) to implement incremental capability while enabling reuse
Failure Analysis and Diagnosis • Enhanced automated software diagnostic capabilities to improve physical failure analysis ROI • Characterization capabilities must identify, locate, and distinguish individual defect types • Increased accuracy and throughput (days to hours) • Failure analysis methods for analog devices must be developed • DFT is essential to localize failures • Improve efficiency and reduce design complexities associated with test • Defect types and behavior will continue to evolve with advances in fabrication process technology • Fundamental research in existing and novel fault models to address emerging defects will be required
Automated Test Program Generation • Tools for ATE software and test program generation are needed to decrease test development effort and improve time to market • Automated design to manufacturing test program flow • Correct by construction (pre-silicon) • Interoperability standards (STIL, CTL, etc) • Enable test content portability among test platforms • ATE S/W operating environment standards • Direct impact on time to market and product development cost • Driven by product complexity and shorter product cycles