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Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2012
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Craig Nishizaki, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Peter Hung, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Gunaseelan Ponnuvel, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Chien-Hsiung Peng, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 90/00 (2006.01); G07C 3/08 (2006.01); G01D 21/00 (2006.01); G06M 11/00 (2006.01); G06Q 50/04 (2012.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2894 (2013.01); G06Q 50/04 (2013.01); G06Q 90/00 (2013.01); G01D 21/00 (2013.01); G06M 11/00 (2013.01); G07C 3/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wafer acceptance test (WAT) system and method that, in one embodiment, includes: (1) a saturation current WAT subsystem operable to generate a weighted standard deviation based on target NMOS and PMOS saturation currents and saturation current WAT results, (2) a wafer IC speed WAT subsystem operable to generate a speed performance probability distribution of wafer ICs based on the weighted standard deviation and speed WAT results, (3) a wafer IC power WAT subsystem operable to employ the speed WAT results and power WAT results to generate a power performance model of wafer ICs, and (4) a yield calculator operable to generate a power performance variance probability distribution of wafer ICs based on the power performance model and the power WAT results, and to employ the speed performance probability distribution and the power performance variance probability distribution to generate the yield forecast with respect to a target performance profile.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Nishizaki, Craig. (2015). System and method for generating a yield forecast based on wafer acceptance tests (U.S. Patent No. 9207277). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9207277

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