ProChek™

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When you design and fabricate an IC, you want to make sure it will perform well under stress and will last as long as your customers require. How can you tell if it will? You can get characterization data from your foundry but it might not have all the data you want or when you want it. Or perhaps you have access to an IC characterisation system in your lab. You can spend weeks or months trying to extract the information you need, one measurement at a time. Ridgetop Groups ProChek&8482; gets you the information you need faster than other systems by orders of magnitude. How? The ProChek test system a PC connected to an instrument the size of an paperback book controls and observes the ProChek test coupon you have fabricated in your process with your embedded circuit components (e.g., a large array of transistors with widths/lengths you specify). With patent-pending technology, the test system stresses devices-under-test (DUTs) on the test coupon. The built-in die-level structures control the voltage and the temperature for each device.