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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2000

Filed:

Apr. 07, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Toshikazu Tsutsui, Tokyo, JP;

Masaaki Furuta, Hyogo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
365200 ; 36446817 ; 365201 ;
Abstract

A method comprises steps of: forming a FBM (step S1); generating a second failure map by compressing data of the FBM (step S2); recognizing a failure mode from the second failure map (step S3); selecting a specific failure mode (step S4); and analyzing the specific failure mode by using a part of the corresponding FBM (step S5). This makes a detail analysis possible while suppressing the number of processing data, and thereby achieves a failure analysis method and device improving accuracy and reliability in comparison result.


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