Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Continuous voltage product binning
- Patent Title (中): 连续电压产品合并
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Application No.: US13868540Application Date: 2013-04-23
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Publication No.: US09368416B2Publication Date: 2016-06-14
- Inventor: Preminder Singh , Date Jan Willem Noorlag , Sung Wook Kang
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Gareth M. Sampson; Lawrence J. Merkel
- Main IPC: G01N37/00
- IPC: G01N37/00 ; H01L21/66

Abstract:
A binning process uses curve fitting to create and assign one or more bins based on testing data of operating voltage versus leakage current for test integrated circuits. Each bin is created by assigning an initial operating voltage to the bin and fitting a curve to the testing data population. An equation is generated describing the fitted curve. Integrated circuits are binned by measuring the leakage current at a selected operating voltage and testing the integrated circuit at one or more operating voltages determined based on the fitted curves. The integrated circuits are assigned a maximum operating voltage that corresponds to the lowest tested operating voltage at which the integrated circuit passes the test.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140316731A1 CONTINUOUS VOLTAGE PRODUCT BINNING Public/Granted day:2014-10-23
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