System Maintenance occurs every Friday.
System Maintenance occurs every Friday.
Semiconductor reliability is at a crossroads. In the past, reliability meant discovering, characterizing and modeling failure mechanisms, and then determining their impact on the reliability of the circuit. Today, reliability can involve tradeoffs between performance and reliability, assessing the impact of new materials, dealing with limited margins, etc. The product lifecycle for many components has become so short that there are limited opportunities to impact the overall reliability of the device, whether that be testing at the package level or even the wafer level. While reliability levels are at an all-time high in the industry, rapid changes may quickly cause reliability to deteriorate. This requires that one put thought and effort into the reliability of a component upfront, during the design phase. The question is how to do this properly. The industry needs competent engineers and scientists to help solve these problems. Design for Reliability is a 1-day course that offers detailed instruction on a variety of subjects pertaining to designing in reliability. This course is designed for every manager, engineer, and technician concerned with reliability in the semiconductor field, designing semiconductor components, or supplying tools to the industry.
$300
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If a course is canceled, refunds are limited to course registration fees. Registration within 21 days of the course is subject to $100 surcharge.
Participants will learn to develop the skills to determine what failure mechanisms might occur, and how to develop models for them, understand their impact at the circuit, block, and IC level, and minimize their impact in the product. This skill-building series is divided into three segments:
Our courses are dynamic. We use a combination of instruction by lecture, problem solving, and question/answer sessions to give you the tools you need to excel in semiconductor reliability design. From the very first moments of the seminar until the last sentence of the training, the driving instructional factor is application. The course notes offer hundreds of pages of reference material that the participants can apply during their daily activities.
Our instructors are internationally recognized experts. Our instructors have years of current and relevant experience in their fields. They're focused on answering your questions and teaching you what you need to know.
Christopher Henderson received his B.S. in Physics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and his M.S.E.E. from the University of New Mexico. Chris is the President and one of the founders of Semitracks Inc., a United States-based company that provides education and semiconductor training to the electronics industry.
From 1988 to 2004, Chris worked at Sandia National Laboratories, where he was a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Failure Analysis Department and Microsystems Partnerships Department. His job responsibilities have included failure and yield analysis of components fabricated at Sandia's Microelectronics Development Laboratory, research into the electrical behavior of defects, and consulting on microelectronics issues for the DoD. He has published over 20 papers at various conferences in semiconductor processing, reliability, failure analysis, and test. He has received two R&D 100 awards and two best paper awards. Prior to working at Sandia, Chris worked for Honeywell, BF Goodrich Aerospace, and Intel. Chris is a member of IEEE and EDFAS (the Electron Device Failure Analysis Society).
At Semitracks, Chris teaches courses on failure and yield analysis, semiconductor reliability, and other aspects of semiconductor technology.