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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1997
Toshikazu Tsutsui, Tokyo, JP;
Masaaki Furuta, Hyogo, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Ryoden Semiconductor System Engineering Corporation, Itami, JP;
Abstract
Failures detected by a tester are collated with defects detected by a defect checking device (Step S6). The collation is performed by retrieving defects coincident with each failure within a tolerance R0. Based on a mean value of displacements between the failures and the defects which are coincident with each other, coordinate values of the defects are corrected (Step S10). The coordinate values are corrected only when a collating ratio S that is a ratio of failures with which defects are coincident to whole failures exceeds a constant value S0 (Step S7). As a result, a coordinate value of a defect having high precision is obtained.