Title
A supervised machine learning application in volume diagnosis
Abstract
Volume diagnosis has been used effectively to identify systematic defects for yield learning. Root cause deconvolution (RCD), an unsupervised machine learning technique which uses volume diagnosis data, has proven very effective for identifying root causes. As we march towards more advanced technology nodes, defects have more complicated behaviors rendering some model parameters used in RCD are not precise enough to be effective. In this paper we use a supervised machine learning technique to accurately learn these model parameters from training data. Controlled experiments using simulation data on several industrial designs show that our approach improves RCD accuracy. We also demonstrate that the approach correctly predicts 71% of the systematic defects in 21 cases validated by physical failure analysis of real silicon, which is a significantly better result compared to using the original parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ETS.2019.8791553
2019 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
scan diagnosis,volume diagnosis,yield analysis,root cause identification,machine learning,and supervised learning
Training set,Computer science,Deconvolution,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),Root cause,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1877
978-1-7281-1174-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
6
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yue Tian1297.31
Gaurav Veda231.46
Wu-tung Cheng31350121.45
Manish Sharma410.37
Huaxing Tang523815.32
Neerja Bawaskar610.37
Sudhakar M. Reddy75747699.51