Lecture 3: April 14, 2009
Identification of Spatial Fault Patterns in Semiconductor Wafers
Dr. Eugene Tuv, Intel
Bio
Dr. Eugene Tuv is a Senior Staff Research Scientist in the
Logic Technology Department at Intel. His research interests
include supervised and unsupervised non-parametric machine learning
with massive heterogeneous data.
Prior to Intel he worked as a research scientist in the
Institute of Nuclear Research, Ukrainian Academy of Science.
He holds postgraduate degrees in Mathematics and Applied Statistics.
Abstract
The semiconductor industry is constantly searching for new ways
to increase the rate of both process development and yield learning.
As more data is being collected and stored throughout the chip
manufacturing process, it has become increasingly more difficult
to analyze yield signals using traditional statistical methods.
Most of the serious yield issues manifest themselves as non-random
electrical failure maps. Our semi-supervised fault detection
framework has elements of Spatial Signature Analysis (SSA) to
capture yield signals for very large datasets without losing
the critical details typically involved with summarization
techniques. It includes signature detection, de-noising,
clustering, and purification that allow one to create a true
spatial response metric of the yield issue. Once this has been
accomplished, one can load process data to join with the spatial
response and invoke customized rule induction algorithms that
generate a set of hypotheses - likely process causes for a
specific spatial target response. The framework has been
successfully used at Intel and represents an example of the
growing influence of modern statistical learning in the
semiconductor industry.
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