
Suwon, South Korea - October 27, 2026
141-36 Botong-ri, Jeongnam-myeon, Hwaseong-si,
Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
TestConX, over the course of its twenty-seven-year history, has established itself as the preeminent event for test consumables, test cell integration, and test operations. The program scope includes packaged semiconductor “final” test, burn-in, system level test, and beyond to encompass all practical aspects of electronics testing such as validation, advanced packaging testing, module test, and finished product test.
Please join us for our 4th annual TestConX Korea! Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of TestConX as we connect a larger community of test professionals and to participate in this excellent event!
Tuesday October 27, 2026
9:00
9:15
“๋์ถ/๋น๋์ถ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์๋ผ์คํ ๋จธ ํ ์คํธ ์์ผ์ ์ฑ๋ฅ ๋น๊ต”
Abstract - Biography (English)
High-speed semiconductor testing increasingly requires test sockets with improved signal integrity and electrical performance.
This study compares the electrical characteristics of coaxial and non-coaxial elastomer test socket structures for high-speed test applications.
The coaxial structure provides a controlled signal and ground configuration, enabling improved impedance control and reduced electromagnetic coupling between adjacent signal paths.
Electrical performance is evaluated in terms of insertion loss, return loss, crosstalk, and impedance characteristics over a wide frequency range.
The results demonstrate the impact of socket interconnect architecture on high-frequency signal transmission and identify the performance advantages and design considerations of the coaxial configuration.
These findings provide practical guidance for test socket design targeting next-generation high-speed and high-frequency semiconductor devices.
Jimin Song received the B.S. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Dankook University, Yongin, South Korea, in 2026, and is currently pursuing the M.S. degree in semiconductor engineering at Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea. His current research interests include signal integrity analysis for high-speed chiplet interconnects and advanced packaging.
Junyong Park (Senior Member) received the B.S. degree in electronic and electrical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, in 2014, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, in 2016 and 2019, respectively.
From 2019 to 2023, he was with the DRAM Design Team at SK Hynix, Icheon, South Korea. In March 2023, he joined the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Laboratory at Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2024, he joined Dankook University, Yongin-si, Korea, as an Assistant Professor. In 2025, he joined Kyung Hee University, Global Campus, Yongin-si, Korea, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include statistical signal/power integrity for high-speed systems, next-generation packaging, and IBIS-AMI.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
๊ณ ์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ
์คํธ ํ๊ฒฝ์์๋ ์ฐ์ํ ์ ํธ ๋ฌด๊ฒฐ์ฑ(Signal Integrity)๊ณผ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ํน์ฑ์ ๊ฐ๋ ํ
์คํธ ์์ผ์ ์ค์์ฑ์ด ์ ์ฐจ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์๋ ๊ณ ์ ํ
์คํธ ์์ฉ์ ์ํ ๋์ถ(Coaxial) ๋ฐ ๋น๋์ถ(Non-coaxial) ์๋ผ์คํ ๋จธ ํ
์คํธ ์์ผ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ํน์ฑ์ ๋น๊ต ๋ถ์ํ์๋ค.
๋์ถ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ ์ ํธ์ ๊ณผ ์ ์ง์ ๋ฐฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ์ดํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ํผ๋์ค ํน์ฑ์ ๊ตฌํํ๊ณ ์ธ์ ์ ํธ ๊ฐ ์ ์๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒฐํฉ์ ๊ฐ์์ํฌ ์ ์๋ค.
๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ์ฝ์
์์ค(Insertion Loss), ๋ฐ์ฌ์์ค(Return Loss), ๋ํ(Crosstalk) ๋ฐ ์ํผ๋์ค ํน์ฑ์ ์ค์ฌ์ผ๋ก ๊ด๋์ญ ์ฃผํ์ ์์ญ์์ ํ๊ฐํ์๋ค.
์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ํ
์คํธ ์์ผ์ ์ธํฐ์ปค๋ฅํธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ์ ํธ ์ ์ก ํน์ฑ์ ๋ฏธ์น๋ ์ํฅ์ ๋ถ์ํ๊ณ , ๋์ถ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์์ ์ด์ ๊ณผ ์ฃผ์ ์ค๊ณ ๊ณ ๋ ค์ฌํญ์ ์ ์ํ์๋ค.
๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์ฐจ์ธ๋ ๊ณ ์ยท๊ณ ์ฃผํ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ
์คํธ๋ฅผ ์ํ ์๋ผ์คํ ๋จธ ํ
์คํธ ์์ผ ์ค๊ณ ๋ฐ ์ต์ ํ์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ด๋๋ผ์ธ์ ์ ๊ณตํ ์ ์๋ค.
๋ณธ ๋ฐํ์ ์ก์ง๋ฏผ ํ์์ ํ์ฌ ๊ฒฝํฌ๋ํ๊ต ๋ฐ๋์ฒด๊ณตํ๊ณผ ์์ฌ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ฌํ ์ค์ด๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ์ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ถ์ผ๋ ๊ณ ์ Chiplet Interconnect์ ์ฒจ๋จ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํจํค์ง์ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒ์ฆ ๋ฐ Signal Integrity ๋ถ์์ด๋ค.
“ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ ๊ฒ์ฆ ๊ณ ์จ ๋ฆฌํ๋ก์ฐ ๊ณต์ ์ฉ HBM ๋ฉํ ํธ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ๋ํ ์ค๊ณ ์ต์ ํ”
Abstract - Biography (English)
As large packages such as HBM see wider adoption, the metal trays used in high-temperature reflow processes for reliability testing can cause thermal damage to transfer components, such as the equipment's internal conveyor belts, creating a need for tray temperature-reduction design technology. This study proposes an optimal design that reduces the tray's heat capacity through lightweight design, thereby lowering the post-reflow tray temperature. The approach is developed and validated through finite element analysis (FEA) and prototype evaluation.
Gyu-Yeol Kim received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Kyunghee University, Suwon, Korea, in 2000, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, in 2008 and 2017, respectively. His current research interests include the design of memory package boards, sockets, and probe cards. Since 2000, he has been with Samsung Electronics, where he is a Principal Engineer of the EDS Test Technology Group.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
HBM๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๋ํ ํจํค์ง์ ์ ์ฉ ํ๋์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ ํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ์ํ ๊ณ ์จ ๋ฆฌํ๋ก์ฐ ๊ณต์ ์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ ๋ฉํ ํธ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ฉํ ์ฅ๋น ๋ด๋ถ ๋ฐ์ก ๋ฒจํธ ๋ฑ ์ด์ก ๋ถํ์ ์ด์์์ ์ ๋ฐํ ์ ์์ด ํธ๋ ์ด ์จ๋ ์ ๊ฐ ์ค๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ์๊ตฌ๋๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์๋ ๋ฉํ ํธ๋ ์ด์ ๊ฒฝ๋ํ๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ด์ฉ๋์ ๊ฐ์์์ผ ๋ฆฌํ๋ก์ฐ ์ดํ ํธ๋ ์ด ์จ๋๋ฅผ ๋ฎ์ถ ์ ์๋๋ก ์ ํ์์ํด์๊ณผ ์์ ํ ํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํตํ ์ต์ ์ค๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ ์ํ๋ค.
๊ฒฝํฌ๋ํ๊ต ์ ์๊ณตํ๊ณผ(2000), ์ฑ๊ท ๊ด๋ํ๊ต ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์๊ณตํ๊ณผ ์์ฌ(2008), ๋ฐ์ฌ(2017), 2000๋ 2์ ~ ํ์ฌ: ์ผ์ฑ์ ์(๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ) ์์์ฐ๊ตฌ์. ๊ด์ฌ๋ถ์ผ: package test board, socket, probe card, memory test.
10:15
Break & Networking
Enjoy time to meet with the presenters and network while refreshments are served.10:45
“์ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ ํฌํ ๋์ค์ Co-Packaged Optics: ์ต์ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ํฅ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๋ ์ ๋ง”

Prof. Donghwan Ahn is presently a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea. Prior to joining Kookmin University, he was a Senior Research Engineer and a team leader of Advanced Silicon Photonics and Electronics Lab at Samsung Electronics U.S. R&D Center (SAIT-USA). He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in materials science and engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea, in 1996 and 2000, respectively.
He earned his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007, under the guidance of Prof. Lionel C. Kimerling. In his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Intra-chip Clock Signal Distribution via Si-based Optical Interconnect”, he pioneered an H-tree waveguide network and demonstrated the world’s first waveguide-integrated germanium photodetector, which is now widely adopted in optical engine chiplets for Co-Package Optics (CPO). Prior to joining Samsung, he was an NSF/ASEE Research Fellow at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, where he conducted research on silicon CMOS-compatible photonic devices in the Advanced Photonic Integration group, and a Senior Research Scientist at Astrowatt Inc., a solar cell start-up company in Austin, Texas. His current research interests include germanium-based photonic and electronic devices, optical interconnect and packaging for AI and high-performance computing, and photonic integrated circuits for quantum computing chip.
11:45
Lunch & EXPO
Enjoy the delicious hot buffet lunch and networking time. Then take the time to explore the TestConX EXPO. There will be many great exhibits to connect electronic test professionals to solutions. You will be certain to see something new or meet someone new. As attendees to TestConX know, there is always excellent food, drinks, and time for attendees to network with exhibitors! TestConX EXPO will open at 11:45 and will remain open throughout the afternoon until 18:0013:30
“์์๋ ์ด๋์์ ์ค๊ณ , ์ฒญ๊ตฌ์๋ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋? -AI ์๋ ํ๊ณต์ ์ ์์น”
Abstract (English)
AI computing investment has accelerated demand for AI accelerators and high-bandwidth memory (HBM). Yet the point at which that demand becomes shippable product lies in advanced packaging and test. Larger dies, stacked HBM, and chiplet integration are increasing test time, yield risk, and capital intensityโreshaping both the role of back-end manufacturing and its cost structure.
This presentation traces the path from data-center capital expenditure to demand for accelerators, memory production, advanced packaging, and test. It also examines where the added complexity and cost ultimately reside: with foundries, memory manufacturers, OSAT providers, test-equipment suppliers, cloud operators, or end users of AI services. In the AI era, back-end manufacturing is no longer merely the final step in semiconductor production; it has become a strategic gatekeeper of shippable volume, delivery capability, and profitability.
์ด๋ก (Korean)
AI ์ปดํจํ ํฌ์๋ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ์ HBM ์์๋ฅผ ๋์ด์ฌ๋ ธ์ง๋ง, ๊ทธ ์์๊ฐ ์ค์ ์ถํ๋ก ์ ํ๋๋ ์ง์ ์ ์ฒจ๋จ ํจํค์ง๊ณผ ํ ์คํธ๋ค. ๋ํ ๋ค์ด, HBM ์ ์ธต, ์นฉ๋ ํตํฉ์ ํ ์คํธ ์๊ฐยท์์จ ๋ฆฌ์คํฌยท์ค๋น ๋ถ๋ด์ ํค์ฐ๋ฉฐ ํ๊ณต์ ์ ์ญํ ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๊พธ๊ณ ์๋ค.
์ด ๋ฐํ๋ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ์ผํฐ CAPEX์์ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐยท๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์์ฐ, ํจํค์งยทํ ์คํธ ์์๋ก ์ด์ด์ง๋ ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ฅผ ์ถ์ ํ๋ค. ๋ํ ๋์ด๋ ๋ณต์ก์ฑ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ์ด ํ์ด๋๋ฆฌ, ๋ฉ๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์ ์ฒด, OSAT, ์ฅ๋น ์ ์ฒด, ํด๋ผ์ฐ๋ ์ฌ์ ์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ต์ข AI ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ๋๊ตฌ์๊ฒ ๊ท์๋๋์ง ์ดํด๋ณธ๋ค. AI ์๋์ ํ๊ณต์ ์ ๋ ์ด์ ์ ์กฐ์ ๋ง์ง๋ง ๋จ๊ณ๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ, ์ถํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ ๋ฌผ๋๊ณผ ์์ต์ฑ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋ ์ ๋ต์ ๊ด๋ฌธ์ด ๋๊ณ ์๋ค.

๊ฐ์ ฏ์์ธ ๋ฏธ๋์ด์ ์ฅ์งํ ๋ํ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ธ๊ตญ์ด๋ํ๊ต๋ฅผ ์กธ์ ํ ํ ํํ๊ทธ๋ฃน ๊ณต์ฑ๋ก ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด๋ฅผ ์์ํ๋ค. ์ ๋ต/๊ธฐํํ์์ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉฐ IT ๋ถ์ผ์ ๋จธ์ฒ๋ค์ด์ ๋ก ๋ธ๋๋์ ์ํ์ ์ ๊ฐํ์๋ค. ์ดํ ๊ฒฝ์ ์ง ์ด์ฝ๋ ธ๋ฏธ ์กฐ์ ์ IT์ ๋ฌธ ์นผ๋ผ๋์คํธ๋ก ์ ๊ณ์ ์ํฉ๊ณผ ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ๋ค์ ๋ํ ๊น์ด ์๋ ์ธ์ฌ์ดํธ๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํด์๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ ์ ํ๋ธ ์ฑ๋ ๊ฐ์ ฏ์์ธ์ ํตํด ์ํ๊ณผ ๋ธ๋๋, ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ํฉ์ ๊ท ํ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ์กฐ๋งํ๋ ์์ ์นผ๋ผ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
Jihoon Jang, the CEO of Gadgetseoul Media, developed and narrates the highly informative and popular Gadgetseoul YouTube channel focused on semiconductors and technology. Prior to which he was an Information Technology columnist for Economy Chosun. He started his career at Hanwha group as an IT/Tech Merchandiser, managing and promoting many brands and products on the Strategy/Planning team after completing his studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
Biography (English)
John West is a Senior Director of the Semiconductor Subsystems and Test Division at Yole Group. He has over 20 years of industry experience and a successful track record in various strategy and consulting projects. John has a Bachelor's degree in Medical Physics from King's College London and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.
์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
John West๋ Yole Group์ Semiconductor Subsystems and Test Division์ Senior Director์ด๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ 20๋ ์ด์์ ์ ๊ณ ๊ฒฝํ๊ณผ ๋ค์ํ ์ ๋ต ๋ฐ ์ปจ์คํ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ์ค์ ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. John์ King's College London์์ ์๋ฃ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌํ ํ์ฌ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ Cranfield School of Management์์ MBA๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋ํ๋ค.
14:45
Posters & EXPO
Enjoy time to meet with the presenters and network while refreshments are served.“Bench top rack and stack ์์คํ ์ ์ด์ฉํ 20 bit ๋์งํธ-์๋ ๋ก๊ทธ ๋ณํ๊ธฐ(DAC) ํ ์คํธ”
Abstract - Biography (English)
Testing of 20-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs) is typically performed using automated test equipment, which is costly and requires complex handler configuration. As an alternative, the rack-and-stack method facilitates testing without such expensive equipment by employing a digital pattern generator to supply the required digital codes. Comprehensive evaluation of a 20-bit DAC necessitates 1,048,576 digital codes. Although this method increases test duration and reduces product margin, this study presents a methodology utilizing a desktop rack-and-stack system to generate digital patterns, apply them to a 20-bit DAC, and measure the resulting output voltage.
The output voltage is measured with an integrated oscilloscope, and a Python script is implemented to assess differential nonlinearity (DNL), integral nonlinearity (INL), offset error, and gain error. The same rack-and-stack benchtop system is used to describe the methodology for measuring power supply rejection ratio (PSRR). The measurement system includes a network analyzer capable of sweeping the ripple frequency in under thirty minutes and generating a PSRR report. Software algorithms for PSRR measurement are detailed, and the assessment of AC characteristics of a 20-bit DAC using the rack-and-stack test system is also addressed.
The methodology to reduce ripple caused by di/dt during power system activation is discussed. Additionally, the use of a Faraday cage is examined to minimize radio frequency interference during the measurement of DC and AC parameters of digital-to-analog converters.
Rajesh Sur is a Senior Staff Product Engineer with Elevate Semiconductor. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from MIT Manipal, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and an M.B.A. degree from Wake Forest University. Rajesh is a senior member of the IEEE.
He currently holds 868 worldwide patents, including more than 280 U.S. patent grants, more than 60 South Korean grants, and more than 80 Chinese patent grants. He is the author of eleven technical books.
Rajesh has 27 years of experience as a senior product engineer, senior packaging engineer, and product engineering manager, having previously worked at Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, and Qorvo.
์ด๋ก (Korean)
20 bit ๋์งํธ-์๋ ๋ก๊ทธ ๋ณํ๊ธฐ(DAC) ํ ์คํธ๋ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ์๋ํ ํ ์คํธ ์ฅ๋น์ ๋ณต์กํ Handler ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ํ์๋ก ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋์์ผ๋ก, rack and stack ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋์งํธ ํจํด ์์ฑ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ํ์ํ ๋์งํธ ์ฝ๋๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ธํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ์ฅ๋น ์์ด๋ ํ ์คํธ๋ฅผ ์ํํ ์ ์๊ฒ ํด์ค๋๋ค. 20 bit DAC์ ํฌ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ํ๊ฐํ๋ ค๋ฉด 1,048,576๊ฐ์ ๋์งํธ ์ฝ๋๊ฐ ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ํ ์คํธ ์๊ฐ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ํ ๋ง์ง์ ์ค์ผ ์ ์์ง๋ง, ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์๋ ๋ฐ์คํฌํฑ rack and stack ์์คํ ์ ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ๋์งํธ ํจํด์ ์์ฑํ๊ณ ์ด๋ฅผ 20 bit DAC์ ์ธ๊ฐํ ๋ค ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์ถ๋ ฅ ์ ์์ ์ธก์ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ก ์ ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ถ๋ ฅ ์ ์์ ํตํฉ ์ค์ค๋ก์ค์ฝํ๋ก ์ธก์ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ฐจ๋ ๋น์ ํ์ฑ(DNL), ์ ๋ถ ๋น์ ํ์ฑ(INL), ์คํ์ ์ค์ฐจ ๋ฐ ์ด๋ ์ค์ฐจ๋ฅผ ํ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํด Python ์คํฌ๋ฆฝํธ๊ฐ ๊ตฌํ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ๋์ผํ Bench top rack and stack ์์คํ ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ ์ ๊ณต๊ธ ์ ๊ฑฐ๋น(PSRR)๋ฅผ ์ธก์ ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ก ๋ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด ์ธก์ ์์คํ ์๋ 30๋ถ ์ด๋ด์ ๋ฆฌํ ์ฃผํ์๋ฅผ ์ค์(sweep)ํ๊ณ PSRR ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฅผ ์์ฑํ ์ ์๋ ๋คํธ์ํฌ ๋ถ์๊ธฐ๊ฐ ํฌํจ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. PSRR ์ธก์ ์ ์ํ ์ํํธ์จ์ด ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ์ ์์ธํ ๋ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, rack and stack ํ ์คํธ ์์คํ ์ ์ด์ฉํ 20 bit DAC์ AC ํน์ฑ ํ๊ฐ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๋ ผ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ ์ ์์คํ ๊ตฌ๋ ์ di/dt๋ก ์ธํด ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ๋ฆฌํ์ ์ค์ด๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ๋ก ์ ๋ํด ๋ ผ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ธ๋ฌ, DAC์ DC ๋ฐ AC ํ๋ผ๋ฏธํฐ ์ธก์ ์ค ๋ฌด์ ์ฃผํ์ ๊ฐ์ญ์ ์ต์ํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํจ๋ฌ๋ฐ์ด ์ผ์ด์ง(Faraday cage)์ ํ์ฉ์ ๋ํด์๋ ๊ฒํ ํฉ๋๋ค.
“์ ๋ฐ DAC ๋ณํ๊ธฐ ํ ์คํธ”
Abstract - Biography (English)
Accurate testing of 12-, 16-, and 20-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters requires a precision voltage supply to measure differential non-linearity, integral non-linearity, gain error, and offset error. This paper details the delivery of precise on-board analog, digital, and reference voltages using a highly efficient 95% buck-boost converter.
The described DC-DC converter features an enable pin for power sequencing, which can be controlled via a switch or a microcontroller's general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pin. Minor voltage drops may result from the board's inherent IR drop. The methodology uses an 8-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) in the feedback path to ensure precise voltage delivery to the device under test. In contrast to conventional DC-DC converters that rely on feedback resistors, integrating an 8-bit DAC simplifies voltage control.
Further technical details are presented in subsequent sections. Within the graphical user interface (GUI), the 8-bit DAC control bit should be set before applying a precise voltage to the integrated circuit pins. The DC-DC converter can deliver up to 3.87 V at 5 A and support up to 15 converters on a single test board, offering a cost-effective solution.
Rajesh Sur is a Senior Staff Product Engineer with Elevate Semiconductor. He earned a B.S.E.E. degree from MIT Manipal, an M.S.E.E. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and an M.B.A. degree from Wake Forest University. Rajesh is a senior member of the IEEE.
He currently holds 868 worldwide patents, including more than 280 U.S. patent grants, more than 60 South Korean grants, and more than 80 Chinese patent grants. He is the author of eleven technical books.
Rajesh has 27 years of experience as a senior product engineer, senior packaging engineer, and product engineering manager, having previously worked at Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, and Qorvo.
์ด๋ก (Korean)
12 bit, 16 bit ๋ฐ 20 bit ๋์งํธ-์๋ ๋ก๊ทธ ๋ณํ๊ธฐ(DAC)๋ฅผ ์ ํํ๊ฒ ํ ์คํธํ๋ ค๋ฉด ์ฐจ๋ ๋น์ ํ์ฑ, ์ ๋ถ ๋น์ ํ์ฑ, ์ด๋ ์ค์ฐจ ๋ฐ ์คํ์ ์ค์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ธก์ ํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ์ ๋ฐ ์ ์ ๊ณต๊ธ์์ด ํ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ณธ ๋ ผ๋ฌธ์์๋ ํจ์จ์ด 95%์ ๋ฌํ๋ ๋ฒ -๋ถ์คํธ(buck-boost) ์ปจ๋ฒํฐ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ์ ๋ฐํ ์จ๋ณด๋(on-board) ์๋ ๋ก๊ทธ, ๋์งํธ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ค ์ ์์ ๊ณต๊ธํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ์์ธํ ๋ค๋ฃน๋๋ค. ์ค๋ช ๋ DC-DC ์ปจ๋ฒํฐ๋ ์ ์ ์ํ์ฑ์ ์ํ Enable ํ์ ๊ฐ์ถ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ ์ค์์น๋ ๋ง์ดํฌ๋ก ์ปจํธ๋กค๋ฌ์ ๋ฒ์ฉ ์ ์ถ๋ ฅ(GPIO) ํ์ ํตํด ์ ์ดํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณด๋ ์์ฒด์ IR ๊ฐํ(IR drop)๋ก ์ธํด ๋ฏธ์ธํ ์ ์ ๊ฐํ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๋ฐฉ์์ ํผ๋๋ฐฑ ๊ฒฝ๋ก์ 8 bit ๋์งํธ-์๋ ๋ก๊ทธ ์ปจ๋ฒํฐ(DAC)๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ฉํ์ฌ ํ ์คํธ ๋์ ์์์ ์ ๋ฐํ ์ ์์ ๊ณต๊ธํฉ๋๋ค. ํผ๋๋ฐฑ ์ ํญ์ ์์กดํ๋ ๊ธฐ์กด DC-DC ์ปจ๋ฒํฐ์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ, 8 bit DAC์ ํตํฉํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ ์ ์ ์ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ํ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ๋ถ ์ฌํญ์ ์ด์ด์ง๋ ์น์ ์์ ๋ค๋ฃน๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ํฝ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ์ธํฐํ์ด์ค(GUI)์์ ์ง์ ํ๋ก ํ์ ์ ๋ฐ ์ ์์ ์ธ๊ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ 8 bit DAC ์ ์ด ๋นํธ๋ฅผ ์ค์ ํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด DC-DC ์ปจ๋ฒํฐ๋ ์ต๋ 3.87V, 5A์ ์ถ๋ ฅ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉฐ ๋จ์ผ ํ ์คํธ ๋ณด๋์์ ์ต๋ 15๊ฐ์ ์ปจ๋ฒํฐ๋ฅผ ์ง์ํ์ฌ ๋น์ฉ์ ์ธก๋ฉด์์ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค.
“๋ฎ์์ ํญ, ๊ณ ์ ๋ฅ, ๊ณ ์ ์ ํน์ฑ์ ์คํ๋ง ํ๋ก๋ธ ํ”
Abstract - Biography (English)
This poster presents advanced spring probe pin technologies designed for low resistance, high current carrying, and high voltage applications. The optimized pin structures provide stable electrical contact and reliable performance for high-power and high-density test applications.
Hyung Jun โAJโ Park
Sales Director | IWIN Co., Ltd.
Korea University
AJ Park is Sales Director at IWIN Co., Ltd., specializing in semiconductor test and interconnect solutions.
He has extensive experience in Spring Probe Pins, Test Sockets, Burn-in, Fine-Pitch, High-Current, and High-Frequency applications. For more than a decade, he has presented IWINโs advanced probe technologies at international semiconductor test conferences.
He also serves as General Chair of TestConX Korea and is a graduate of Korea University.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
๋ณธ ํฌ์คํฐ๋ ์ ์ ํญ, ๊ณ ์ ๋ฅ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ์ ์ ์์ฉ์ ์ํ ๊ณ ์ฑ๋ฅ ์คํ๋ง ํ๋ก๋ธ ํ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ต์ ํ๋ ํ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋ฅผ ํตํด ๊ณ ์ ๋ ฅ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๋ฐ๋ ํ ์คํธ ํ๊ฒฝ์์ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ด๊ณผ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ ๋์ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ์ ๊ณตํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฐํ์ค (AJ Park)
IWIN ์์ ์ด์ฌ | ๊ณ ๋ ค๋ํ๊ต ์กธ์
AJ Park ์ด์ฌ๋ IWIN์ ์์ ์ด์ฌ๋ก์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๋ฐ ์ธํฐ์ปค๋ฅํธ ์๋ฃจ์ ๋ถ์ผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Spring Probe Pin, Test Socket, Burn-in, Fine-Pitch, High-Current ๋ฐ High-Frequency ๋ถ์ผ์์ ํญ๋์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 10๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๊ด๋ จ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค์์ IWIN์ Probe ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์๊ฐํด ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ฌ TestConX Korea General Chair๋ก๋ ํ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
“ Pd ํฉ๊ธ ์ ์ฉ ์คํฌํ ์คํ๋ง ํ๋ก๋ธ ํ: ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ฑ๋ฅ๊ณผ ๋น์ฉ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์๋ฃจ์ ”
Abstract - Biography (English)
This poster introduces a stamped spring probe pin using Pd alloy as a cost-efficient material solution. It provides reliable electrical contact and durability while reducing dependence on high-cost gold materials.
Hyung Jun โAJโ Park
Sales Director | IWIN Co., Ltd.
Korea University
AJ Park is Sales Director at IWIN Co., Ltd., specializing in semiconductor test and interconnect solutions.
He has extensive experience in Spring Probe Pins, Test Sockets, Burn-in, Fine-Pitch, High-Current, and High-Frequency applications. For more than a decade, he has presented IWINโs advanced probe technologies at international semiconductor test conferences.
He also serves as General Chair of TestConX Korea and is a graduate of Korea University.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
๋ณธ ํฌ์คํฐ๋ Pd ํฉ๊ธ์ ์ ์ฉํ ์คํฌํ ์คํ๋ง ํ๋ก๋ธ ํ์ ๋น์ฉ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์์ฌ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ด๊ณผ ๋ด๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉด์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๊ธ ์์ฌ์ ๋ํ ์์กด๋๋ฅผ ์ค์ผ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๋ฐํ์ค (AJ Park)
IWIN ์์ ์ด์ฌ | ๊ณ ๋ ค๋ํ๊ต ์กธ์
AJ Park ์ด์ฌ๋ IWIN์ ์์ ์ด์ฌ๋ก์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๋ฐ ์ธํฐ์ปค๋ฅํธ ์๋ฃจ์ ๋ถ์ผ๋ฅผ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Spring Probe Pin, Test Socket, Burn-in, Fine-Pitch, High-Current ๋ฐ High-Frequency ๋ถ์ผ์์ ํญ๋์ ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, 10๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ์ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๊ด๋ จ ์ปจํผ๋ฐ์ค์์ IWIN์ Probe ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์๊ฐํด ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ฌ TestConX Korea General Chair๋ก๋ ํ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
“ํผ์น ๋ณํ MEMS ํ์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ฑ๋ฅ ํ๊ฐ: ๋ฏธ์ธ ํผ์น ํ ์คํธ ๋ฐ HBM ๋ค์ด ์บ๋ฆฌ์ด ์ ์ฉ”
Abstract (English)
Conventional test structures require a pitch-transforming interface to connect the fine-pitch contacts of a device under test (DUT) to the contact pads on a printed circuit board (PCB). As device contact pitches decrease, these interfaces become more difficult to design and manufacture. Component availability and lead times can also constrain the delivery of test solutions.
This poster introduces a MEMS-based Pitch Transforming Pin (PTP) that incorporates pitch transformation into the pin itself. Through precise microfabrication and control of the upper and lower tip geometries, the PTP is designed to connect the DUT directly to the PCB without a separate pitch-transforming interface. The current design supports pitches down to 70 µm. Its reduced number of interface components also makes high-frequency performance an important part of the evaluation.
We describe the PTP structure and operating principle, and present results for contact force, current carrying capacity, high-frequency performance, and durability, together with test results from an application case. These findings are used to assess its suitability for HBM die carrier testing and its potential as an alternative to conventional cantilever probes.
์ด๋ก (Korean)
๊ธฐ์กด ํ ์คํธ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์์๋ ํ ์คํธ ๋์ ์์(DUT)์ ๋ฏธ์ธํ ์ ์ด ํผ์น์ ์ธ์ํ๋ก๊ธฐํ(PCB)์ ์ ์ด ํผ์น๋ฅผ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํผ์น ๋ณํ ์ธํฐํ์ด์ค๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ค. ์์์ ์ ์ด ํผ์น๊ฐ ์ข์์ง์๋ก ์ด๋ฌํ ์ธํฐํ์ด์ค์ ์ค๊ณ์ ์ ์์ ์ด๋ ค์์ง๋ค. ๋ถํ ์๊ธ๊ณผ ๋ฉ๊ธฐ ๋ํ ํ ์คํธ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ๊ณต์ ์ ์ฝ ์์ธ์ด ๋ ์ ์๋ค.
๋ณธ ํฌ์คํฐ์์๋ ํ ์์ฒด์ ํผ์น ๋ณํ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์ ๊ตฌํํ MEMS ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํผ์น ๋ณํ ํ(Pitch Transforming Pin, PTP)์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค. PTP๋ ๋ฏธ์ธ ํ์ ๊ฐ๊ณต๊ณผ ์ยทํ๋ถ ํ ํ์ ์ ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ณ๋์ ํผ์น ๋ณํ ์ธํฐํ์ด์ค ์์ด DUT์ PCB๋ฅผ ์ง์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐํ๋๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋์๋ค. ํ์ฌ 70 µm ํผ์น๊น์ง ๋์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋ค. ๋ณ๋์ ํผ์น ๋ณํ ์ธํฐํ์ด์ค๋ฅผ ์ ๊ฑฐํ์ฌ ์ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฒฝ๋ก๋ฅผ ๋จ์ํํ๊ณ ์ ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ํน์ฑ์ ํ๊ฐํ๋ค.
PTP์ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์๋ ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ค๋ช ํ๊ณ , ์ ์ด๋ ฅ, ์ ๋ฅ ์ฉ๋, ๊ณ ์ฃผํ ํน์ฑ ๋ฐ ๋ด๊ตฌ ์ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ฉ ์ฌ๋ก์ ํ ์คํธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ๋ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก HBM ๋ค์ด ์บ๋ฆฌ์ด ํ ์คํธ์ ๋ํ ์ ์ฉ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์กด ์บํธ๋ ๋ฒ ํ๋ก๋ธ์ ๋์ฒด ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฒํ ํ๋ค.
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“่ฏๆญๆจกๆๅผ่็ตๅญๅจไปถไธญ็ฑSOAๅผ่ตท็่ๅๆผ็งป๏ผๅฏนAIไธHPCๆต่ฏ็ๅฏ็คบ”
“Analog Pin Electronics์ SOA ์ ๋ฐ Aging Drift ์ง๋จ: AI ๋ฐ HPC ํ ์คํธ์ ๋ํ ์์ฌ์ ”
Abstract - Biography (English)
Silent Data Corruption (SDC) and post-deployment hardware faults have emerged as significant reliability concerns for hyperscale AI and HPC infrastructure, with recent industry reports from Google, Meta, and the Open Compute Project (OCP) highlighting defects that pass manufacturing test but only manifest under specific bias conditions or after extended operation. The published case studies are predominantly digital. In this study, we examine the same failure class in an analog Automated Test Equipment (ATE) pin electronics ASIC, devices that perform final test on AI and HPC silicon.
A customer reported progressive VCOM threshold drift on a 256-channel application, affecting approximately 50% of channels and continuing past -900 mV with no observable stabilization. All affected devices had passed final test before production. Failing devices were inspected, and results from initial visual inspection, ATE re-test, and emission microscopy were inconclusive. Bench characterization across 50 devices spanning multiple lots and date codes confirmed that the drift was reproducible and exhibited strong dependence on register configuration and operating temperature but evaded standard production screening due to its time-dependent nature.
Failure analysis techniques such as Focused Ion Beam (FIB) produced misleading initial results. Severing a capacitor and diode in the comparator path arrested the drift, which initially appeared to identify the offending components. A subsequent control FIB cutting non-functional metal also halted the drift, demonstrating that the FIB process itself was perturbing the measurement rather than the targeted devices. This sensitivity to invasive characterization is a notable hazard for this defect class and constrains the design of subsequent debug experiments.
Root cause was traced to Safe Operating Area (SOA) violations within the analog comparator. Floating-node conditions in one register state and an over-stressed gain-stage VGS in another subjected gate oxides to chronic overstress, accelerating Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) and Bias Temperature Instability (BTI). Pre-silicon simulation did not flag the floating-node case due to the initial conditions the simulator applies, preventing the very condition responsible. Final test could not screen for the effect because the resulting offset is sub-microvolt at t = 0 and accumulates only after days of biased operation.
This case study underscores the importance of integrating aging-aware design verification with adaptive test strategies for analog devices intended for long-deployment applications. The presentation walks through the diagnostic flow, the validated workaround shipped to the customer during silicon respin development, and the design corrections incorporated in successor revisions. We conclude with recommendations for screening long-latency, bias-dependent drift in the analog devices on which AI and HPC test programs increasingly depend, including SOA analysis during pre-silicon verification, extended-stress characterization protocols, and closer coordination between design verification and production test engineering teams.
Hailin is an Applications Engineer at ElevATE Semiconductor with a strong engineering background and a passion for innovation. He holds a degree from the University of Toronto, where he also engaged in academic research collaborations, and has professional experience spanning software development and mixed-signal engineering.
Dedicated to tackling complex technical challenges and fostering opportunities for students, Hailin is committed to advancing the field of semiconductor test while inspiring the next generation of professionals. He is currently pursuing a masterโs degree at UC Berkeley, focusing on applying statistical models and data science principles to enhance test engineering.
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Silent Data Corruption(SDC) ๋ฐ ์ค์ ์์คํ ๋ฐฐํฌ ์ดํ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ํ๋์จ์ด ๊ฒฐํจ(Post-Deployment Hardware Fault)์ ์ต๊ทผ ํ์ดํผ์ค์ผ์ผ AI ๋ฐ HPC ์ธํ๋ผ์์ ์ค์ํ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ก ๋๋๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. Google, Meta ๋ฐ OCP์ ์ต๊ทผ ์ฐ์ ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ ์ ์กฐ ํ ์คํธ๋ฅผ ํต๊ณผํ์ง๋ง ํน์ Bias์กฐ๊ฑด์ด๋ ์ฅ์๊ฐ ๋์ ์ดํ์๋ง ๋ํ๋๋ ๊ฒฐํจ ์ฌ๋ก๋ค์ด ๋ณด๊ณ ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ธฐ์กด์ ๋ฐํ๋ ์ฌ๋ก๋ค์ ๋๋ถ๋ถ ๋์งํธ ํ๋ก์ ์ง์ค๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์๋ ๋์ผํ ์ ํ์ ๊ณ ์ฅ ๋ฉ์ปค๋์ฆ์ AI ๋ฐ HPC๋ฐ๋์ฒด์ Final Test์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ Analog ATE Pin Electronics ASIC์์ ๋ถ์ํ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ณ ๊ฐ์ 256์ฑ๋ ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ด์ ์์ ์ ์ง์ ์ธ VCOM Threshold Drift๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๋ณด๊ณ ํ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ํ์์ ์ ์ฒด ์ฑ๋์ ์ฝ 50%์์ ๋ํ๋ฌ์ผ๋ฉฐ, VCOM Threshold๊ฐ -900mV๋ฅผ ๋์ด์ ์ดํ์๋ ์์ ํ๋์ง ์๊ณ ๊ณ์ ๋ณํํ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํ ๋ชจ๋ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค๋ ์์ฐ ์ Final Test๋ฅผ ์ ์์ ์ผ๋ก ํต๊ณผํ ์ ํ์ด์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ถ๋ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค์ ๋ํด ์ด๊ธฐ ์ก์๊ฒ์ฌ, ATE์ฌ์ํ ๋ฐ Emission Microscopy๋ฅผ ์ค์ํ์ง๋ง ๋ช ํํ ์์ธ์ ํ์ธํ ์ ์์์ต๋๋ค. ์ฌ๋ฌ Lot์ Data Code์ ๊ฑธ์น 50๊ฐ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค์ Bench Characterization์ ํตํด ํด๋น Driftํ์์ด ์ฌํ ๊ฐ๋ฅํจ์ ํ์ธํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, Register Configuration๊ณผ Operating Temperature์ ํฌ๊ฒ ์์กดํ๋ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ๋ํ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ด ํ์์ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ฒฝ๊ณผํ๋ฉด์ ๋์ ๋๋ ํน์ฑ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ด ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ ์์ฐ ์คํฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ณผ์ ์์๋ ๊ฒ์ถ๋์ง ์์์ต๋๋ค.
Focused Ion Beam(FIB)๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ Failure Analysis(FA) ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ์ด๊ธฐ ๋ถ์ ๊ณผ์ ์์ ์คํด๋ฅผ ์ผ์ผํฌ ์ ์๋ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ์์ต๋๋ค. Comparator ๊ฒฝ๋ก์ Capacitor์ Diode๋ฅผ FIB๋ก ์ ๋จํ์ Drift๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ถ์๊ณ , ์ฒ์์๋ ํด๋น ๋ถํ๋ค์ด ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์์ธ์ธ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ก ํ๋จ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ ์ดํ ํ๋ก ๊ธฐ๋ฅ๊ณผ ๋ฌด๊ดํ Metal์ ์ ๋จํ๋ Control FIB ์คํ์์๋ Drift๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ถ๋ ํ์์ด ํ์ธ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด๋ ํน์ ์์๊ฐ ์์ธ์ด์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์๋๋ผ FIB ๊ณต์ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์ธก์ ๋์์ ์ํฅ์ ์ฃผ์ด ํ์์ ๋ณํ์ํค๊ณ ์์์์ ์๋ฏธํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ์นจ์ต์ ๋ถ์(Invasive Characterization)์ ๋ํ ๋ฏผ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์ด์ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฒฐํจ์ ๋ถ์ํ ๋ ์ฃผ์ํด์ผ ํ ์ค์ํ ์์์ด๋ฉฐ, ์ดํ Debug Experiment์ ์ค๊ณ์๋ ์ ์ฝ์ ์ค ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ต์ข ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ทผ๋ณธ ์์ธ์ Analog Comparator ๋ด๋ถ์ Safe Operating Area(SOA) ์๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐํ์ก์ต๋๋ค. ํน์ Register State์์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ Floating-Node Condition๊ณผ ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ํ์์ Gain Stage์ Vgs๊ฐ ๊ณผ๋ํ Stress๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ ํ์์ผ๋ก ์ธํด Gate Oxide๊ฐ ์ง์์ ์ธ Overstress์ ๋ ธ์ถ๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ Hot Carrier Injection(HCI) ๋ฐ Bias Temperature Instability(BTI)๊ฐ ๊ฐ์๋์์ต๋๋ค. Pre-Silicon Simulation์์๋ Simulator๊ฐ ์ ์ฉํ๋ Initial Condition์ผ๋ก ์ธํด ์ค์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ฐํ๋ Floating-Node Condition ์์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ฐ์ํ์ง ์์ ํด๋น ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ ์ ๊ฒ์ถํ์ง ๋ชปํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ Final Test ์์ (t=0)์์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ Offset์ Sub-Microvolt ์์ค์ผ๋ก ๋งค์ฐ ์๊ณ , Bias๊ฐ ์ธ๊ฐ๋ ์ํ์์ ์์ผ๊ฐ ๋์ํ ์ดํ์์ผ ๋์ ๋์ด ๋ํ๋๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ Final Test๋ก๋ Screeningํ๊ธฐ ์ด๋ ค์ ์ต๋๋ค.
๋ณธ ์ฌ๋ก๋ ์ฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ Analog Device์ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ์ ํ๋ณดํ๊ธฐ ์ํด Aging-Aware Design Verification๊ณผ Adaptive Test Strategy๋ฅผ ํตํฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํจ์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค. ๋ณธ ๋ฐํ์์๋ ๋ฌธ์ ์ Diagnostic Flow, Silicon Respin ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๋์ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์๊ฒ ์ ๊ณตํ์ฌ ๊ฒ์ฆ๋ Workaround, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ์ Revision์ ์ ์ฉ๋ Design Correction ๊ณผ์ ์ ๋จ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ง์ง๋ง์ผ๋ก AI ๋ฐ HPC Test Program์์ ์ค์์ฑ์ด ์ ์ฐจ ๋์์ง๊ณ ์๋ Analog Device์ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ์ ๋ณตํ(Long-Latency), Bias-Dependent Drift๋ฅผ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฒ์ถํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฌ๊ธฐ์๋ Pre-Silicon Verification ๋จ๊ณ์์์ SOA Analysis, Extended-Stress Characterization Protocol, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Design Verification Team๊ณผ Production Test Engineering Team ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๊ธด๋ฐํ ํ์ ์ด ํฌํจ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
Hailin์ ElevATE Semiconductor์ Applications Engineer๋ก, ํํํ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ฐ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ ์ ๋ํ ๋์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๋ถ์ผ์์ ํ๋ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ University of Toronto์์ ํ์๋ฅผ ์ทจ๋ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฌํ ์ค Academic Research Collaboration์๋ ์ฐธ์ฌํ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ Software Development ๋ฐ Mixed-Signal Engineering ๋ถ์ผ์์ ๋ค์ํ ์ค๋ฌด ๊ฒฝํ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
Hailin์ ๋ณต์กํ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฌธ์ ๋ฅผ ํด๊ฒฐํ๋ ๋์์ ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ ์๋ก์ด ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ ๋ฐ์๋ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, Semiconductor Test ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ฐจ์ธ๋ ์ ๋ฌธ ์ธ๋ ฅ ์์ฑ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํ๊ณ ์ ๋ ธ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ UC Berkeley์์ ์์ฌ๊ณผ์ ์ ์ด์ ์ค์ด๋ฉฐ, Statistical Models์ Data Science ์๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ Test Engineering์ ์ ์ฉํ์ฌ ํ ์คํธ ๊ธฐ์ ๊ณผ ์ฑ๋ฅ์ ํฅ์์ํค๋ ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
“ํ ์คํธ ํ๋ก์ด์์ ์ฝํน ํ๋ก์ด๋ก: ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ์ ์์ด์ ํธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๋”
Abstract - Biography (English)
Abstract
Semiconductor test today operates as a sequence of disconnected stages โ EDA, wafer sort, final test, system-level test, reliability, and field โ each with its own tools, its own datalog format, and its own engineering teams. The result is well understood across the industry: an SLT escape rarely traces cleanly back to a sort signature, characterization data is reconstructed by hand for every yield investigation, and the engineer's most expensive task is not running tests but stitching context together across stages.
This talk proposes a different shape for the next decade of test: a thinking test floor in which the tester becomes a deterministic execution engine, the IDE becomes optional, and a fleet of discipline-specialized AI agents โ Test, Thermal, Characterization, Yield, Reliability, SLT, Application Engineering โ operates above a unified analytics platform on a common Device Log that follows each die from EDA through field return.
We will outline a vendor-neutral, three-layer architecture that makes this possible:
- An Agent Fleet the engineer steers at the level of intent rather than clicks.
- An Agentic Control Plane that translates intent into measurement operations through domain-shaped tools and enforces hardware-safety envelopes structurally.
- A headless execution layer with a stable contract for ingesting machine-authored, signed, version-controlled test programs.
Binding the three layers together is a Unified Device Log โ a schemaed, append-only, customer-owned record keyed to each device's lifelong identity โ which turns cross-stage investigation from a project into a query.
We will also examine the corresponding shift toward simulation-led test development, in which agents iterate against virtual testers and digital-twin device models long before silicon is touched, and discuss what this means for tooling, IP boundaries, customer trust, and the engineering organizations that operate the test floor.
What Attendees Will Take Away
- A concrete architectural picture of how AI agents move from "smarter autocomplete inside the IDE" to first-class operators of the test floor across every stage from EDA to SLT.
- A practical framing of the Unified Device Log as the spine that makes cross-stage investigation tractable โ including schema, identity propagation, and the customer IP boundary.
- A clear distinction between an agent that has hands (action surface), knowledge (domain-shaped tools), and memory (the device log) โ and why all three are required for autonomy.
- Why simulation and digital-twin-led development is the natural next step once test programs become machine-authored artifacts rather than hand-edited files.
- An honest discussion of the open problems: hardware safety on live silicon, customer-IP protection, agent guardrails, and the organizational changes that come with intent-driven testing.
Audience and Relevance
Test engineers, characterization engineers, yield and reliability leads, ATE platform architects, EDA and SLT practitioners, and engineering and executive leadership looking to catch the next stage of the semiconductor test era.
Particularly relevant for organizations facing the cost of cross-stage data fragmentation and looking for a credible path from today's IDE-centric workflows to AI-native, intent-driven test operations.
Mykola Zakharchuk is Product Owner at Advantest with ten years of experience in semiconductor test. He works at the intersection of generative AI and automated test, focusing on how large language models, agent frameworks, and open protocols such as the Model Context Protocol are reshaping the way test programs are authored, executed, and debugged.
His current work centers on the long-term vision for an agentic test platform spanning EDA through SLT, with a common analytics layer and a Unified Device Log as its spine. He speaks regularly on the future of AI in semiconductor test.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
์ด๋ก
์ค๋๋ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ๋ EDA, ์จ์ดํผ ์ํธ, ํ์ด๋ ํ ์คํธ, ์์คํ ๋ ๋ฒจ ํ ์คํธ(SLT), ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ, ํ๋์ ์ด๋ฅด๊ธฐ๊น์ง ์๋ก ๋จ์ ๋ ๋จ๊ณ๋ค์ ์ฐ์์ผ๋ก ์ด์๋๋ฉฐ, ๊ฐ ๋จ๊ณ๋ ๊ณ ์ ์ ํด๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ก๊ทธ ํฌ๋งท, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ณ๋์ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง ํ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์ ๊ณ์ ์ ์๋ ค์ ธ ์์ต๋๋ค. SLT ๋จ๊ณ์ ๋ถ๋(escape)์ด ์ํธ ์๊ทธ๋์ฒ๋ก ๊น๋ํ๊ฒ ์ถ์ ๋๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌผ๊ณ , ํน์ฑํ(characterization) ๋ฐ์ดํฐ๋ ์์จ ๋ถ์๋ง๋ค ์์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฌ๊ตฌ์ฑ๋๋ฉฐ, ์์ง๋์ด์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ๊ฐ๋น์ผ ์ ๋ฌด๋ ํ ์คํธ ์คํ ์์ฒด๊ฐ ์๋๋ผ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋จ๊ณ์ ๊ฑธ์น ๋ฌธ๋งฅ์ ์ด์ด ๋ถ์ด๋ ์ผ์ ๋๋ค.
๋ณธ ๋ฐํ๋ ํฅํ 10๋ ์ ํ ์คํธ์ ๋ํด ๋ค๋ฅธ ํํ๋ฅผ ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ํ ์คํฐ๋ ๊ฒฐ์ ๋ก ์ (deterministic) ์คํ ์์ง์ด ๋๊ณ , IDE๋ ์ ํ ์ฌํญ์ด ๋๋ฉฐ, ๋ถ์ผ๋ณ๋ก ํนํ๋ AI ์์ด์ ํธ ์ง๋จ โ ํ ์คํธ, ์ด(Thermal), ํน์ฑํ, ์์จ, ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ, SLT, ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ด์ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง โ ์ด ํตํฉ ๋ถ์ ํ๋ซํผ ์์์, EDA๋ถํฐ ํ๋ ๋ฐํ๊น์ง ๊ฐ ๋ค์ด(die)๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๋ค๋๋ ๊ณตํต ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค ๋ก๊ทธ(Device Log)๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋์ํ๋ โ์ฌ๊ณ ํ๋ ํ ์คํธ ํ๋ก์ด(thinking test floor)โ์ ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ๋ฒค๋ ์ค๋ฆฝ์ (vendor-neutral) 3๊ณ์ธต ์ํคํ ์ฒ๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํฉ๋๋ค.
- ์์ง๋์ด๊ฐ ํด๋ฆญ์ด ์๋๋ผ ์๋(intent) ์์ค์์ ์กฐ์ข ํ๋ ์์ด์ ํธ ํ๋ฆฟ(Agent Fleet).
- ์๋๋ฅผ ๋๋ฉ์ธ์ ๋ง์ถฐ์ง ํด์ ํตํด ์ธก์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ๋ณํํ๊ณ ํ๋์จ์ด ์์ ๋ฒ์(safety envelope)๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ์์ด์ ํฑ ์ปจํธ๋กค ํ๋ ์ธ(Agentic Control Plane).
- ๊ธฐ๊ณ๊ฐ ์์ฑํ๊ณ ์๋ช ยท๋ฒ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ ํ ์คํธ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์์ฉํ๋ ์์ ์ ๊ณ์ฝ(contract)์ ๊ฐ์ถ ํค๋๋ฆฌ์ค(headless) ์คํ ๊ณ์ธต.
์ด ์ธ ๊ณ์ธต์ ํ๋๋ก ๋ฌถ๋ ๊ฒ์ ํตํฉ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค ๋ก๊ทธ(Unified Device Log)๋ก, ๊ฐ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค์ ํ์ ์๋ณ์์ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋ ์คํค๋ง ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ถ๊ฐ ์ ์ฉ(append-only)ยท๊ณ ๊ฐ ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด๋ฉฐ, ๋จ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋ถ์์ ํ๋์ ํ๋ก์ ํธ์์ ํ๋์ ์ฟผ๋ฆฌ๋ก ๋ฐ๊ฟ ๋์ต๋๋ค.
๋ํ ์ค์ ์ค๋ฆฌ์ฝ์ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ธฐ ํจ์ฌ ์ ์ ์์ด์ ํธ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ ํ ์คํฐ์ ๋์งํธ ํธ์ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค ๋ชจ๋ธ์ ๋์์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ณต ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ํํ๋ ์๋ฎฌ๋ ์ด์ ์ฃผ๋(simulation-led) ํ ์คํธ ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋ก์ ์ ํ์ ์ดํด๋ณด๊ณ , ์ด๊ฒ์ด ํด๋ง, IP ๊ฒฝ๊ณ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ ๋ขฐ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ํ ์คํธ ํ๋ก์ด๋ฅผ ์ด์ํ๋ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง ์กฐ์ง์ ์ด๋ค ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋์ง ๋ ผ์ํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ฏธ์ฝ๋ผ ์ํ๋ฅด์ถํฌ(Mykola Zakharchuk)๋ Advantest์ ํ๋ก๋ํธ ์ค๋(Product Owner)๋ก, ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๋ถ์ผ์์ 10๋ ์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ์์ฑํ AI์ ์๋ ํ ์คํธ์ ์ ์ ์์, ๋๊ท๋ชจ ์ธ์ด ๋ชจ๋ธ(LLM), ์์ด์ ํธ ํ๋ ์์ํฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Model Context Protocol๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐฉํ ํ๋กํ ์ฝ์ด ํ ์คํธ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์์ฑยท์คํยท๋๋ฒ๊น ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋ณํ์ํค๊ณ ์๋์ง์ ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ๋ฉฐ ์ฐ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
ํ์ฌ๋ EDA๋ถํฐ SLT๊น์ง ์์ฐ๋ฅด๋ ์์ด์ ํธ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ํ ์คํธ ํ๋ซํผ๊ณผ, ๊ทธ ์ค์ฌ์ถ์ด ๋๋ ๊ณตํต ๋ถ์ ๊ณ์ธต ๋ฐ ํตํฉ ๋๋ฐ์ด์ค ๋ก๊ทธ(Unified Device Log)์ ๋ํ ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๋น์ ์ ์ง์คํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ํ ์คํธ ๋ถ์ผ์์ AI์ ๋ฏธ๋์ ๋ํด ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ์ฐํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค.
“Device Power Supply(DPS)์ Power Supply Rail Multi Switching์ ์ํ HW/SW ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์”
Abstract - Biography (English)
This paper presents a hardware (HW) and software (SW) approach to Power Supply Rail Multi Switching on a Device Power Supply (DPS) using multiple voltage rails. Implemented with the Whitney DPS as a demonstration platform, the system selects the most efficient voltage rail based on output demand to reduce power loss, lower heat dissipation, and improve thermal performance. The design supports both hardware-based comparator logic and software-based digital control for flexible envelope-tracking operation.
The solution uses make-before-break rail switching, eFuse protection, buffered voltage sensing, and threshold-based control to maintain continuous operation during voltage transitions. Results from both hardware and software demonstrations at 200 mA, 500 mA, and up to 1 A show stable rail handoff and reliable output regulation across changing load conditions.
These results demonstrate that the proposed Envelope-Tracking Power Supply (ETPS) is an effective solution for improving power efficiency, thermal management, and system reliability in high-voltage DPS applications.
Thomas Angelo C. Abiog is a Senior Product Applications Engineer at ElevATE Semiconductor, where he has contributed to the development and customer adoption of advanced semiconductor solutions for the past two years. He brings more than 11 years of experience in the Automated Test Equipment (ATE) industry, including an extensive tenure at Analog Devices, Inc., where he served as a Product Applications Manager.
His technical expertise spans pin electronics, device power supplies, and ATE system applications. Throughout his career, Thomas has focused on translating customer requirements and real-world application challenges into practical engineering solutions, helping guide the development of next-generation ATE technologies.
Thomas is passionate about semiconductor innovation and remains actively engaged in advancing high-performance solutions for an evolving test and measurement industry. Outside of work, he enjoys playing badminton and exploring the cultural history, traditions, and stories of the locations he visits.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
๋ณธ ๋ ผ๋ฌธ์์๋ ๋ค์ค ์ ์ ๋ ์ผ(Multiple Voltage Rails)์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ Device Power Supply(DPS)์์ Power Supply Rail Multi Switching์ ๊ตฌํํ๊ธฐ ์ํ ํ๋์จ์ด(HW) ๋ฐ ์ํํธ์จ์ด(SW) ์ ๊ทผ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ ์ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ณธ ์์คํ ์ Whitney DPS๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ชจ ํ๋ซํผ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌํํ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ถ๋ ฅ ์๊ตฌ ์กฐ๊ฑด(Output Demand)์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ์ฅ ํจ์จ์ ์ธ ์ ์ ๋ ์ผ์ ์ ํํจ์ผ๋ก์จ ์ ๋ ฅ ์์ค์ ์ค์ด๊ณ , ๋ฐ์ด์ ๊ฐ์์ํค๋ฉฐ, ์ด ์ฑ๋ฅ(Thermal Performance)์ ํฅ์์ํค๋๋ก ์ค๊ณ๋์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ํ ์ ์ฐํ Envelope-Tracking ๋์์ ์ํด ํ๋์จ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฐ Comparator Logic๊ณผ ์ํํธ์จ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ฐ Digital Control ๋ฐฉ์์ ๋ชจ๋ ์ง์ํฉ๋๋ค.
๋ณธ ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ์ ์ ์ ํ ๊ณผ์ ์์๋ ์ฐ์์ ์ธ ๋์์ ์ ์งํ๊ธฐ ์ํด Make-Before-Break Rail Switching, eFuse Protection, Buffered Voltage Sensing, Threshold-Based Control ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์ ์ฉํ์์ต๋๋ค. ํ๋์จ์ด ๋ฐ ์ํํธ์จ์ด ๋ฐฉ์์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ํํ 200 mA, 500 mA ๋ฐ ์ต๋ 1 A์ ๋ฐ๋ชจ ํ ์คํธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ๋ถํ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ด ๋ณํํ๋ ์ํฉ์์๋ ์์ ์ ์ธ ์ ์ ๋ ์ผ ์ ํ(Rail Handoff)๊ณผ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ ์๋ ์ถ๋ ฅ ์ ์ ์ ์ด(Output Regulation)๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅํจ์ ํ์ธํ์์ต๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฌํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ ์ ์๋ Envelope-Tracking Power Supply(ETPS) ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๊ณ ์ ์ DPS ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ด์ ์์ ์ ๋ ฅ ํจ์จ(Power Efficiency), ์ด ๊ด๋ฆฌ(Thermal Management) ๋ฐ ์์คํ ์ ๋ขฐ์ฑ(System Reliability)์ ํฅ์์ํค๋ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ธ ์๋ฃจ์ ์์ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค.
Thomas Angelo C. Abiog๋ ElevATE Semiconductor์ Senior Product Applications Engineer๋ก, ์ง๋ 2๋ ๊ฐ ์ฒจ๋จ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ์๋ฃจ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ ์ฉ ํ๋์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ Automated Test Equipment (ATE) ์ฐ์ ์์ 11๋ ์ด์์ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ์ ๋ณด์ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, Analog Devices, Inc.์์ ์ค๋ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ๋ฉฐ Product Applications Manager๋ฅผ ์ญ์ํ์ต๋๋ค.
Thomas์ ์ฃผ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๋ฌธ ๋ถ์ผ๋ Pin Electronics, Device Power Supplies ๋ฐ ATE System Applications์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ์ ๋ฐ์ ๊ฑธ์ณ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ์๊ตฌ์ฌํญ๊ณผ ์ค์ ์ ํ๋ฆฌ์ผ์ด์ ์์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ๋ฅผ ์ค์ฉ์ ์ธ ์์ง๋์ด๋ง ์๋ฃจ์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌํํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํด ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํตํด ์ฐจ์ธ๋ ATE ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ๊ธฐ์ฌํด ์์ต๋๋ค.
Thomas๋ ๋ฐ๋์ฒด ๊ธฐ์ ํ์ ์ ๊น์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋ณํํ๋ Test & Measurement ์ฐ์ ์ ์ํ ๊ณ ์ฑ๋ฅ ์๋ฃจ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ง์์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐธ์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ฌด ์ธ์๋ ๋ฐฐ๋๋ฏผํด์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ๋ ์ง์ญ์ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ญ์ฌ์ ์ ํต, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ ์ง์ญ์ ์ฝํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ค์ ํ๊ตฌํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ข์ํฉ๋๋ค.
“Singulated Die Test๋ฅผ ์ํ Prober”
Abstract - Biography (English)
With the growth of AI and HPC applications, the use of HBM, chiplets, and other multi-die packages is increasing. As more dies are integrated into a single package, it becomes more important to verify the quality of each die before assembly. A defective die can result in the loss of other good dies and packaging components within the same package, increasing the importance of Known Good Die (KGD).
In addition to conventional wafer-level testing, testing individual dies after singulation provides an additional screening step before package assembly. Dies may experience different mechanical and thermal conditions during dicing and singulation, and die-level testing can help reduce the risk of defective dies being used in the final package.
SEMICS has developed a Single Die Prober for electrical testing of singulated dies. The system is designed to provide stable die handling and accurate probing under various die and test conditions. Key development areas include die handling stability, probing accuracy, support for different die sizes and warpage conditions, and thermal management for effective heat removal from the die during electrical testing.
This paper introduces the need for die-level testing and presents the system configuration and key development features of the SEMICS Single Die Prober.
Sangyeong Han is a Mechanical Engineering Team Leader at SEMICS, working on the design and development of semiconductor probing systems. His work focuses on mechanical system design, precision motion and alignment, and probing mechanisms for wafer- and die-level testing. He has been involved in the development of various probing platforms, including wafer probers and die probers.
์ด๋ก - ์ ๊ธฐ (Korean)
AI ๋ฐ HPC ์์ฅ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป HBM, Chiplet ๋ฑ ์ฌ๋ฌ Die๋ฅผ ํ๋์ Package์ ์ง์ ํ๋ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์๋ค. Package์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ Die ์๊ฐ ์ฆ๊ฐํ๋ฉด์ ์กฐ๋ฆฝ ์ ๊ฐ๋ณ Die์ ํ์ง์ ํ์ธํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๋์ฑ ์ค์ํด์ง๊ณ ์๋ค. ํนํ ํ๋์ ๋ถ๋ Die๋ก ์ธํด ํจ๊ป ์กฐ๋ฆฝ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ Good Die์ Packaging Component๊น์ง ์์ค๋ ์ ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ KGD(Known Good Die) ํ๋ณด์ ์ค์์ฑ์ด ๋์์ง๊ณ ์๋ค.
๊ธฐ์กด Wafer Level Test์ ๋๋ถ์ด Singulation ์ดํ ๊ฐ๋ณ Die๋ฅผ Testํ๋ ๊ฒ์ Package Assembly ์ด์ ์ ์ถ๊ฐ์ ์ธ Screening์ ์ํํ ์ ์๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ด๋ค. Dicing ๋ฐ Singulation ๊ณผ์ ์์ Die๋ Wafer ์ํ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๊ธฐ๊ณ์ ยท์ด์ ์กฐ๊ฑด์ ๋์ผ ์ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, Die-level Test๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ถ๋ Die๊ฐ ์ต์ข Package์ ์ฌ์ฉ๋๋ Risk๋ฅผ ์ค์ผ ์ ์๋ค.
SEMICS๋ Singulated Die์ Electrical Test๋ฅผ ์ํ Single Die Prober๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ์๋ค. ๋ณธ ์ฅ๋น๋ ๋ค์ํ Die ๋ฐ Test ์กฐ๊ฑด์์ ์์ ์ ์ธ Die Handling๊ณผ ์ ๋ฐํ Probing์ด ๊ฐ๋ฅํ๋๋ก ์ค๊ณํ์๋ค. ์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ํญ๋ชฉ์ผ๋ก๋ Die Handling ์์ ์ฑ, Probing Accuracy, ๋ค์ํ Die Size ๋ฐ Warpage ๋์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ Electrical Test ์ค Die์์ ๋ฐ์ํ๋ ์ด์ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๊ฑฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํ Thermal Management๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๋ คํ์๋ค.
๋ณธ ๋ฐํ์์๋ Die-level Test๊ฐ ํ์ํ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป, SEMICS์์ ๊ฐ๋ฐํ Single Die Prober์ System Configuration ๋ฐ ์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ๋ฐ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์๊ฐํ๋ค.
ํ์์์ SEMICS์์ Probing System์ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ ์ค๊ณ ๋ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ด๋นํ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ์ค๊ณํ์ฅ์ด๋ค. Wafer ๋ฐ Die-level Test ์ฅ๋น์ ๊ธฐ๊ตฌ ์์คํ ์ค๊ณ, ์ ๋ฐ ๊ตฌ๋ ๋ฐ Alignment, Probing Mechanism ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ฃผ์ ์ ๋ฌด๋ก ํ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, Wafer Prober์ Die Prober๋ฅผ ํฌํจํ ๋ค์ํ Probing Platform ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ ์ฐธ์ฌํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
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