Method of repairing an integrated circuit structure

Details Method of repairing an integrated circuit structure Method of repairing an integrated circuit structure

1995-06-07

1997-05-13

Duda, Kathleen

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Imaging affecting physical property of radiation sensitive...

Making electrical device

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ABSTRACT:
Each transistor or logic unit on an integrated circuit wafer is tested prior to interconnect metallization. By means of CAD software, the transistor or logic units placement net list is revised to substitute redundant defect-free logic units for defective ones. Then the interconnect metallization is laid down and patterned under control of a CAD computer system. Each die in the wafer thus has its own interconnect scheme, although each die is functionally equivalent, and yields are much higher than with conventional testing at the completed circuit level.
The individual transistor or logic unit testing is accomplished by a specially fabricated flexible tester surface made in one embodiment of several layers of flexible silicon dioxide, each layer containing vias and conductive traces leading to thousands of microscopic metal probe points on one side of the test surface. The probe points electrically contact the contacts on the wafer under test by fluid pressure.

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