Semiconductor Product Engineering, Quality and Operations: Deliver High Quality Products & Increase Profits

by Fariborz Barman

Overview

This book captures the author’s 35+ years of learning&experience in the semiconductor chip industry to provide a proven roadmap for successful, new product introduction process, tailored specifically to the semiconductor industry. The content includes a simplified process flow, success metrics, execution guidelines, checklists&calculators. The presentation is based on a product engineering centric “NPI hub” and the author guides readers through the complete process of semiconductor new product introduction, ensuring a successful plan execution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031180309
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/05/2022
Series:	Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

A little bit about me. My college degrees include BS&MS in Computer Engineering both from University of California. I have been in the semiconductor industry since 1984 fulfilling several different roles with increasing complexity and responsibility as my skills&experience grew. 

My first job was a process development engineer involved in the 1 to 2 um CMOS technologies. My most recent position has involved board level product management&operations. In the early days of my career I was developing transistors&memory cells (i.e the building blocks of every semiconductor product). Later on I was responsible for model parameter extractions which were the building blocks of SPICE transistor model developments. During the latter half of my career I became interested in product&test engineering. So I used my knowledge of basics to move my career in that direction. More recently I have managed new product introductions for several types of products including ASICs, FPGA&mixed signal products. 

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Overall Picture of Product Development stages&where product engineers add value.- Get to know your products(s) intimately.- Put your reliability qualification plan&schedule together.- Put your characterization plans&schedule together.- Engineering Sample Phase.- Process Skew Lots (Assess Yield Variations, Yield pitfalls).- Assess your products’ Reliability using industry standard specifications.- Analysis of failures to root cause is the key to a robust product.- Get ready for Production Silicon.- Compliance to Industry&Customer Standards.- Ring out the kinks in your manufacturing flow early.- Enable your manufacturing sites.- Start looking at cost reduction&manufacturing simplification.- Finance - Budgeting for char., rel. qual, boards etc.