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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2002
John Harold Magerlein, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Samuel Roy McKnight, New Paltz, NY (US);
Kevin Shawn Petrarca, Newburgh, NY (US);
Sampath Purushothaman, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Carlos Juan Sambucetti, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Joseph J. Van Horn, Underhill, VT (US);
Richard Paul Volant, New Fairfield, CT (US);
George Frederick Walker, New York, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for testing a collection of device chips by temporarily attaching them to a carrier having a plurality of receptacles with microdendritic features; the receptacles matching with and pushed in contact with a matching set of contact pads on the device chips; said carrier additionally having test pads connected to the receptacles through interconnect wiring. The system allows connecting the chips together and testing the collection as a whole by probing the test pads on the carrier. Burn-in of the collection of chips can also be performed on the temporary carrier, which is reusable.