Abstract
This paper concerns the local and remote use of an Integrated Circuits (IC) Automated Test Equipment (ATE) for both educational and engineering purposes. This experience was initiated in 1998 in the context of a French network (CNFM) in order to provide a distant control to industrial equipment for academic and industrial people. The actual shared resource is a Verigy V93K System on Chip (SoC) tester platform. The cost of such an equipment is close to 1Mâ?¬, without taking into account the maintenance and attached human resources expenses to make it work properly daily. Although the sharing of this equipment seems to be obvious for education, the French experience is quite a unique example in the world. Here, practical information regarding IC testing and network setup for remote access are detailed, together with the associated training program.
Highlights
This paper introduces the French experience of distant education and engineering in the field of Integrated Circuit (IC) testing based on the remote access to unique and upto-date test equipment
CNFM focuses on making heavy educational resources such as professional CAD tools, clean rooms, or industrial test equipments available for common use, by all French universities and industrial partners
After completing a digital training, each trainee will be able to (i) make competent use of any digital Automated Test Equipment (ATE) to test a device for its performance parameters and specifications, (ii) build up a test flow to automate the test execution and (iii) create a test program to be executed on the production test floor
Summary
This paper introduces the French experience of distant education and engineering in the field of Integrated Circuit (IC) testing based on the remote access to unique and upto-date test equipment. The reasons were that first, low-cost testers do not represent the industry reality so that getting experienced on those machines does not provide strong added value; and second, developing training modules and labs in the field of IC testing, and providing support for engineering requires good technical support and staff with high degree of expertise which is not easy to find. CRTC has provided support in IC testing, based on the remote control of industrial test equipment.
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