Detektion fehlerhafter Bonddrahtverbindungen in Integrierten Schaltkreisen mittels eines für örtlich hochaufgelöste Magnetfeldmessungen entwickelten GMR-Zeilenarrays

Translated title of the contribution: Detection of defective bond wire connections in integrated circuits utilizing a GMR line array developed for magnetic field measurements with high spatial resolution

Patrick Hölzl

Research output: ThesisDoctoral thesis

Abstract

The electrical interconnection between the semiconductor chip and its output pins, which is often realized by bond wires, is a crucial factor for power electronic components. To guarantee the current carrying capacity of the interconnections, redundant bond wires are typically implemented. However, due to this redundancy conventional electrical tests are not able to detect missing or insufficiently connected bond wires. The semiconductor manufacturer Infineoen initiated therefore the present PhD thesis, to develop a measurement method to detect such bonding faults. The developed method determines the current flowing within each bond wire based on the magnetic field distribution measured above the component. To evaluate the developed measurement method, the MOSFET power switch BTS5120-2EKA from Infineon was selected. Based on milling layer pictures of a BTS5120-2EKA a simplified geometric model of all current carrying bond wires was designed, consisting of six straight line conductor segments per wire. Utilizing the straight line conductor model and the law of biot-savart it was possible to calculate the magnetic field distribution above the component analytically. The results obtained from this calculations were essential for the design process of a magnetic sensor line array, consisting of 26 GMR sensor elements. With the GMR sensor line array the field distributions above 400 samples, 100 BTS5120-2EKA and 300 test chips with different fault permutations of the bond wires were measured. Based on the measured data an inverse problem for determining the current flow within the bond wires was established and this was solved by means of two different approaches, a model-based and a data-based one. Using a threshold value method for the determined current flow values, it was possible to detect up to 99.33% of all fault permutation test chips without a misclassification of a single faultless BTS5120-2EKA.
Translated title of the contributionDetection of defective bond wire connections in integrated circuits utilizing a GMR line array developed for magnetic field measurements with high spatial resolution
Original languageGerman (Austria)
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2018

Fields of science

  • 202012 Electrical measurement technology
  • 202014 Electromagnetism
  • 202021 Industrial electronics
  • 202036 Sensor systems
  • 202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering
  • 202016 Electrical engineering
  • 202027 Mechatronics
  • 202037 Signal processing
  • 202039 Theoretical electrical engineering
  • 103021 Optics

JKU Focus areas

  • Mechatronics and Information Processing

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