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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2002
Applicants:
Yu-chih Chen, Taipei, TW;
Remaerd Hsieh, Tainan, TW;
Inventors:
Yu-Chih Chen, Taipei, TW;
Remaerd Hsieh, Tainan, TW;
Assignee:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A new method and system of testing and classifying semiconductor devices is provided. User requirements are collected for this purpose, test specifications and test functions are defined for the to be tested DRAM devices. The Automatic Classification Shipping (ACS) data base is updated with test related data, the testing is performed whereby DRAM devices are assigned categories from with DRAM classes are derived. These identified classes are used to sort the tested DRAM devices in accordance with their tested functional performance characteristics.