Descriprtion of the water testing of ASICS at Glasgow
Introduction
The following is a decripton of the setup used to test wafers of ABCn ASICS at Glasgow.
The setup uses a Cascade semi automaitc propbe station, with a cutosm built probe card. The probe card is connected to a PCB driver card, which sends signals and data to and from the PC. 2 NI cards are used for signalling, voltage sourced for power, multimeters for measuring the DACs and an adapted verstion of SCTDAQ is used for control software
Hardware
Driver Card
Connections
- 2 64 pin twist & flat cables
- Connects the Driver card to the probe card
- Supplies the LVDS, CMOS signals, control lines etc
- DB9 -> 4 Banana leads
- 2.5V provides ABCn power
- ~4.5V for driver board (locally regulated). Taken to 3.3V, 2.5V & 2.0V by local regulators
- Lemo 2 pin
- Analogue output
- Multiplexer out from ABCn to multimeter
- Bandgap reference for Vreg on ABCn
- 2 Large multi pin connectors
- connected to NI cards in PC
- PL7
- Analogue regulator output
- To 2nd multimeter
Probe Card
Probe Station
NI Cards
Source & Multitmeters
Software
- Root 5,26
- Visual Studio Express 2008
- Labview 8.6
- SCTDAQ
Test Sequence
- Digital Test Vectors
- Check all registres can be written and sent back
- Test token receive and send data
- Same for other side of chip
- Master mode with 80MHz clock
- Stops at failure and flasgs as Bad (Red)
- Analogue DACs via the multiplexer output
- Analogue front end test
- 2 point gain (1.5, 2 & 2.5 fC trim DACS @ 0)
- Threshold scan at full range of trim DACS (2fC, trimDAC :@ max)
Instructions
- In root, .x Wafter.cpp
- Loads STGUI.cpp
- Test Bonded ASIC Test Die
- Test Single chip (manual and move)
2. Test single ASIC
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- Place single asic on chuck
- Turn vacumn on
- Align chip
- Roate in Abhle
- align in x and y
- Find point of first contact
- 2.5V source will draw xcurrent (~0.14A)
- Over travel can be appklied up to 60 microns over first contact
- Check for probe marks on each pad
3. Test wafer
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- Place Wafer on chuck and vacum
- align at this stage as best as possible x + y
- Align wafer (max L + R points)
- Align top left asic for x+y
- Check if still in alignment for bottom right wafer
- Test wafer option on software
Notes
Cuts for failures as follows:
- Digital (Red)
- Power (Blue)
- Analog (Yellow)
If 3 Digital fails in a row, wafer testing will fail