ICCDLAB: Silicon Chip Tooling for Failure Analysis Laboratories

Summary:

The test chip ICCDLAB (Integrated Circuit for Characterization and Debug Laboratory) is a full custom silicon chip dedicated to failure analysis. This chip embeds several custom devices designed to highlight, reproduce, and simulate defects, and intensify signatures obtained with failure analysis techniques that are used to locate defects in circuits. The purpose of the ICCDLAB is to be a “Swiss army knife” and a failure analysts’ playground at the same time. The chip allows to cover in a simple way an exhaustive catalog of failure analysis techniques and approaches for equipment benchmarking, training people new to the failure analysis world, understanding failure mechanisms and signatures, simulating defect behaviors, and supporting development of new techniques.