Keynote

Keynote: If It's All About Yield, Why Talk About Testing?

Rene Segers, NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands

Abstract This talk will discuss the evolution of test and diagnosis, in the broad sense, over the recent years as well as the outlook into the future. Test, as it was only recently a pure discriminator between good and bad, has gained significant more added value by acting also a feedback loop towards the manufacturing process of Integrated Circuits. Of course this feedback loop was already there, but was limited to information on test bin level from a tester. In the last couple of years, this has changed dramatically, and we are now able to pinpoint to circuit coordinates and /or to circuit structures as potential candidates for low yield causes. By linking this diagnosis information to in-line data, a more than direct link to a root cause in the fab can be achieved. And this is not the end of the story. By linking diagnosis to the layout one should be able to even stronger and quicker close the loop between Design, Manufacturing and Test. All of the above will be discussed in the talk, which in a sense could mean that the talk is all about DfX, Design for eXcellence...

Curriculum Vitae After having finished his studies at the Technical University of Eindhoven, and after the then regular period of military service, Rene Segers started his career at Philips Research. There he led the introduction of DfT in general and digital scan-test in particular into Philips. Since those early days he had various positions in Philips, including Consumer Electronics, the Centre for Manufacturing Technology and Philips Semiconductors. Last year, together with more than 30.000 others, he joined NXP semiconductors where he is now DfX program manager. Until a couple of years ago Rene also acted as a professor in test technology at the Technical University in Eindhoven.

Invited Address: Electronics Design-For-Test: Past, Present and Future

Ben Bennetts, Bennetts Associates, United Kingdom

Abstract Do you know how many ENIAC vacuum tubes were replaced every day during its heyday? What did it teach us about Test, or Design- For-Test? Did Eldred really invent the stuck-at fault model in 1959? Is 99.999% fault cover all it's cracked up to be or are we fooling ourselves? Are we better off with 115% or even 80%? Where did Design-For-Test come from? Where is it now? Where's it heading? Is it true that boundary scan is the panacea of test? What are all these new Joint Test Action Groups - Internal, System and compact? Are they boondoggles, or are they serious?
Alongside all this, what does the price of oil, cheap airfares, global warming, text messaging for kids, sparrows in Leeuwarden, Skype, on-line social networking, IPTV, wearable electronics, Pat Gelsinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Clark Kent, Ella, Georgia and Emilie have to do with the future of test and DFT?
On the eve of his retirement after nearly 40 years in the test and DFT industry, the speaker will take a sometimes serious and sometimes irreverent look at the history, current status and projected future of the test and DFT industries, relating to various industries, various market segments (notably the hand-held consumer and telecommunication industries) and the way society is changing. Along the way many myths will be explored and dispelled, and social commentary added to explain certain projections.
Come, find out and be amused and amazed.

Curriculum Vitae Dr R.G. "Ben" Bennetts was an independent consultant in Design-For-Test (DFT), consulting in product life-cycle DFT strategies, and delivering on-site and open educational courses in DFT technologies. During his career, he worked for LogicVision, Synopsys, GenRad and Cirrus Computers. Between 1986 and 1993, he was a free-lance consultant and lecturer on Design-for-Test (DFT) topics. During this time, he was a member of JTAG, the organization that created the original IEEE 1149.1- 1990 Boundary-Scan Standard. He was a core-group member of IJTAG and SJTAG (and currently the SJTAG Chairman Emeritus), a co-founder and past Program Chair of the IEEE Board Test Workshop, a Steering Committee member of the IEEE European Test Workshop/Symposium for many years, founder of the IEEE European Board Test Workshop, and the founder and ex-Chairman of the IEEE's BTTAC organisation. During the period 1968-2006, he published over 100 papers plus three books on test and DFT subjects. He retired from all DFT teaching and most DFT consulting on 31 December, 2006.