Rick Burns is the president of the Semiconductor Test Division at Teradyne, overseeing all of Teradyne’s automated test business units. Prior to this role, he was the vice president of Semiconductor Test engineering at Teradyne, where the team consistently created the high-performance hardware and software systems necessary to test the semiconductor industry’s most complex devices. Rick has over 30 years of engineering, engineering management and business leadership experience, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Northridge.
As processor complexity has skyrocketed through the 10B transistor mark on the back of sub-10nm technologies, product developers noticed the outgoing defect rates were impacting end-product quality. To maintain acceptable quality, new test insertions like system level test and active burn-in were added to traditional ATE- based sort and packaged test. Initially a high-volume phenomenon in PCs and smartphones, additional known good die insertions have been added, as multi chip devices have become the norm for AI-enabling servers, resulting in a complex set of unique insertions, each with its own development investment, test limits, and data management. In this session, we’ll discuss how connecting insertions together and enabling test migration across a range of insertions, from wafer to SLT to PCB/product test, offers the opportunity to optimize processes for the desired outcome, whether it be time to market, quality, or cost.