FormFactor Ships Industry's First One-Touchdown 300-mm Wafer Probe Solution for Burn-In Test Applications
LIVERMORE, CA, October 17, 2007
FormFactor (Nasdaq:FORM) has introduced the latest addition to its Harmony(TM) family of full-area, 300-mm wafer probe solutions: the Harmony Wafer-Level Burn-In (WLBI) Probe Card. The Harmony WLBI Probe Card is designed to maximize throughput as well as ensure higher quality and reliability of semiconductor devices. It can contact approximately 40,000 test pads in one touchdown, enabling the testing of a 300-mm wafer at high temperature (up to 130°C).
FormFactor has shipped Harmony one-touchdown WLBI Probe Cards to multiple customers for reliability testing of leading-edge DRAM devices. Results show throughput can be increased by as much as an order of magnitude to help reduce time-to-market.
The Harmony WLBI Probe Card incorporates a new 3-D MEMS MicroSpring(R) contactor designed to withstand high-temperature burn-in testing and minimize cleaning. FormFactor's proprietary technology also can amplify the number of die simultaneously tested with existing tester resources, allowing manufacturers to better leverage their depreciated test equipment.
Harmony WLBI is an important component in FormFactor's suite of probe card solutions for enabling known-good die (KGD) applications. Examples of KGD applications include mobile cell phones and portable media players where multiple device types are incorporated into a single system-in-package or multichip package.
FormFactor is now taking Harmony WLBI probe card orders.
About FormFactor
Founded in 1993, FormFactor produces wafer probe cards used by semiconductor manufacturers to electrically test ICs. The company's wafer sort, burn-in, and device performance testing products move IC testing upstream from post-packaging to the wafer level, enabling semiconductor manufacturers to lower their overall production costs, improve yields, and bring next-generation devices to market. FormFactor is headquartered in Livermore, CA, with operations in Europe, Asia, and North America. For more information, visit the company's website at www.formfactor.com/.