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.
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.
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.
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