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How to get the most benefit from FIB IC Nano-surgery?
There are many advantages of correcting an IC design with FIB Nano-Surgery, but sometimes there are also problems, and many designers have been put off the technique. Did your last FIB work as you expected? Or was the yield low? or you got results you couldn’t explain? A quick recap of the reasons to do a FIB edit and how you would go about it, might be helpful. SCENE: So you’ve taped out your big new design, and 4 months and ₤400,000 /$/€ later, your 1st Silicon devices have arrived for tests to start. And immediately, there’s a problem. If you are lucky, then a normal functional test has failed and after a few days of head scratching it becomes clear what the cause is, and what the most likely metal fix should be. If you are unlucky and it’s more subtle, but still a show stopper for customer acceptance, then the fix strategy may be less obvious. Either way, prompt action is required and there are some difficult decisions to make. Your colleagues, customers and suppliers are all waiting to help get your product to market. Then there is the expense and the delays: to testing, to qualification, to sales and to revenue – which all add up to a serious commercial inconvenience. What ARE your options here? Risk a design change because there is a high confidence that the fix is understood? Do you roll the dice (the expensive and time consuming ones) and trust that the fix will work? Or spend a week trying to get a few chips fixed using FIB nano-surgery and give yourself some... read more
Circuit Nano-Surgery and Failure Analysis Online Tutorial
NanoScope gave an Online invited Tutorial on behalf of IMAPS UK on the 18th September on the subject of Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Circuit Nano-Surgery and Failure Analysis from Board to Gate.
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Free IC microscope inspections using LiveOPTICAL
Free LiveOPTICAL chip inspections over the web – try something new while you’re stuck working from home.
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We are OPEN.
We are still open, but with a few sample handling improvements
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NanoScope Services Case Study – FIB ‘ICy’ design nano-surgery identifies event timing issues..
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NanoScope Services Case Study – ICy Event Timing Issues
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Now 1€ = 1₤ till Brexit is settled
Dear EU contacts and customers, As the UK general ‘Brexit’ Election gets underway – we invite all our EU customers to VOTE AS WELL. NanoScope have voted to boost the Euro exchange rate again. So now until Brexit is settled your 1€ spent will buy your ₤1 of support for your Semiconductor Design FIB-Nanosurgery, Nano-tech development or Failure Analysis project. With a record low Euro to GBP exchange rate – there is already a smart advantage to placing your project with us in the UK, and with this offer you can vote for an extra 19% cost reduction (exchange rate buy Euros 29/11/2019). Click here to get a quote NanoScope Services – your European FIB IC Nano-surgery Lab ... read more
E-Newsletter Summer 2019
Here are some examples of our new services, and how they complement our existing imaging and non-destructive analysis. There is a quick guide to the specific advantages of each technique to show how your FA, NPI or development project can benefit.
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