New screen methodology for ultra thin gate oxide technology

Result of this study shows that Less Noise Margin (LNM) dice have reliability weakness in ultra thin gate oxide technologies. High temperature chip probing (CP) test can narrow down noise margin and screen out the weak LNM dice effectively by functional test. Moreover, this paper also indicates that circuit propagation delay and VDDmin are effective indexes to assess reliability risk.

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