The Role
The role involves developing testability circuits, analyzing manufacturing readiness, optimizing production yield, and supporting test program development for integrated circuits.
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Job Details:Job Description:
- Drives and develops testability and manufacturability of integrated circuits from the component feasibility stage through production ramp.
- Contributes to design, development, and validation of testability circuits, test flows, and methodologies for new products through evaluation, development, and debug of complex test methods.
- Interfaces with process development, fab, factory, assembly, quality and reliability, and manufacturing groups to enable post-silicon HVM ramp.
- Evaluates new designs on automatic test equipment (ATE) and works with the design, DFx, and product development teams to debug functionality and performance issues to root cause.
- Performs ATE device characterization, utilizes that data to define datasheet specifications and performs yield analysis.
- Collaborates with designers to drive design for test/debug/manufacturing (DFT/DFD/DFM) features enabling efficient production testing of new products.
- Develops and debugs complex software programs to convert design validation vectors and drive complex test equipment.
- Creates and tests validation and production test hardware solutions.
- Tests, validates, modifies, and redesigns circuits to guarantee component margin to specification.
- Analyzes and evaluates component specification versus performance to ensure optimal match of component requirements with production equipment capability with specific emphasis on yield analysis and bin split capability.
- Ensures manufacturability over process and product design through thorough analysis of process and spec corners and works with design to resolve yield issues before manufacturing ramp.
- Drives test time reduction through analysis of fallout data versus test time for various IPs to balance and drive overall product cost optimizations.
- Analyzes early customer returns with emphasis on driving test hole closure activities.
- Creates and applies concepts for optimizing component production relative to both quality and cost constraints.
- Leads and drives manufacturing readiness from fab, assembly, and test factory to support engineering sample and customer sample generation (ES milestones), wafer start planning, product qual execution strategy and capacity analysis, and assembly and test site certification activities.
- Works with fab, assembly, and test factory partners and planners to support production ramp.
- May also manage execution of new product introductions in the fab, fab process targeting, product/process optimizations, and participate in factory task forces to bring product perspective and respond to product issues.
- Optimizes product supply through data analysis of post-silicon binsplit, die level cherry pick (DLCP), and optimize sort/test content and yield downstream through data analysis.
- Candidate must possess at least a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 3-5 years of industry experience in IC Burn-in, IC Test, HW Development, FA, or equivalent field.
- Sound knowledge in test engineering, test methodology, debugging, Yield improvement, and methodical problem-solving techniques.
- Experience in statistical methodology (e.g. Six Sigma, control chart, Variability chart, etc.)
- Experience in ATE manufacturing test flow, test program development, device level test flow, and temperature testing requirements.
- Solid understanding of digital, analog and mixed signal circuits and its fundamental operation.
- Strong knowledge and experience in programming (VB, C, Perl, Python, TCL/TK), code debugging and unit level test.
- Excellent analytical, project management, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong knowledge and experience in yield analysis, root cause analysis, yield improvement and problem-solving techniques.
- Knowledge of ATE tester instrument and main component functionality is added advantage.
- Good knowledge on IC packaging is added advantage.
- Solid understanding of digital and analog circuit physic, stress method, test methods and fault models is added advantage
Top Skills
C
Perl
Python
Tcl/Tk
Vb
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The Company
What We Do
Altera: Accelerating Innovators
Altera provides leadership programmable solutions that are easy-to-use and deploy in applications from cloud to edge, offering limitless AI possibilities. Our end-to-end broad portfolio of products including FPGAs, CPLDs, Intellectual Property, development tools, System on Modules, SmartNICs and IPUs provide the flexibility to accelerate innovation. Altera is helping to shape the future through pioneering innovation that unlocks extraordinary possibilities for everyone on the planet.
