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John O'Donnell, CEO of yieldHUB, believes real-time monitoring should become a standard practice in any semiconductor factory aiming to scale efficiently.
John O'Donnell predicts that implementing a real-time system can make a semiconductor test floor more than 10% more efficient.
Historical analysis alone is insufficient for monitoring real-time events on semiconductor test floors, such as idle times and binning behavior, a problem that yieldHUB's technology is designed to solve.
yieldHUB's real-time system can use data on retest success rates to determine if retesting certain bins is worthwhile, preventing unnecessary retests.
Implementing yieldHUB's real-time monitoring solution on a customer's test floor typically takes a few weeks, with actionable insights available within days.
yieldHUB's Yieldtop Live solution is compatible with testers from different manufacturers, with compatibility depending on the tester's operating system and data format.
yieldHUB has developed approximately 1,000 different data parsers to handle various semiconductor tester data formats.
yieldHUB's Yieldtop Live system is designed to help customers make all test sites behave similarly statistically, which John O'Donnell asserts will automatically increase manufacturing yield.
yieldHUB's Yieldtop Live product has zero effect on semiconductor test time and does not require adding hardware to individual testers.
yieldHUB's real-time system can use 'feedforward' data from a previous manufacturing step to detect test issues early in the current test stage.
yieldHUB currently implements AI in its products to reduce test time, specifically retest time.
John O'Donnell advises semiconductor facilities to implement real-time data systems to improve efficiency before purchasing additional test cells to increase capacity.