The Development of the First IC Tester-per-Pin ATE system

Time Period :1980'sRelevant Date :1983-01-02

Summary : Megatest's MegaOne was the system that sparked the tester-per-pin revolution (1983, courtesy of Teradyne). Find out more in this video that contains great clips of the state-of-the-art in technology development in the early 1980's. The concepts behind it were as important to testing as the jet engine was to aviation.

A History Timeline of A ...

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A special presentation of The Chip History Center on History Timeline of Automatic Test Equipment ... See more

Evaluation of Automated ...

Jerry Hutcheson, VLSI Research's founder, was very active in the test side of the semiconductor business in the early 70's. The following document is his internal notes about tester evaluation, selection criter ... See more

Moore's Law: 40 Years a ...

01 Jan 2005

In 1965, Gordon Moore sat down to pen his article for Electronics magazine. Eventually, it would come to be known as Moore's Law. This is an overview, published Forty years later, celebrating how it was still g ... See more

40 Years Of Moore's Law

06 Jun 2005

Historical perspective on Moore’s Law and its affects on everyday life and economic growth for the world as a whole from the fruits brought by semiconductor technology through a 2005 lens. ... See more

Semiconductor Dicing Eq ...

Dicing equipment is used to cut apart individual die on a wafer. Typically, a dicing saw will cut along the wafer in an unused section between dice that is called the 'street'. · Such streets are typically thre ... See more

The Near Impossibility ...

30 Jun 1975

This superb article, about the birth of the Perkin Elmer Projection Scanning Aligner, was first published in the Fall 1999 issue of American Heritage of Information & Technology. ... See more

Ion Implantation - Deve ...

Ion implanters directly inject dopant atoms into semiconductor wafers. A gas containing atoms or molecules of the desired dopant 'species' is first ionized in an ion source. The ions are then extracted from the ... See more

Introduction to Assembl ...

Assembly equipment consists of those types of equipment used to separate the completed wafer into its individual dice and to assemble each die into its own package. The assembly equipment market comprises roug ... See more

Equipment Suppliers - 1 ...

This section examines the vendors who supply semiconductor manufacturing equipment. There are approximately 534 of them. The top five are shown below in Figure 2.0.0-1. In 1989, these five companies held a 26 ... See more

Process Diagnostics - D ...

Process diagnostic equipment is critical to semiconductor manufacture. Though this equipment is not used to directly manufacture devices, it serves to verify consistent and in-control manufacturing processes. ... See more