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BURN-IN TEST
SPECIAL REPORT
BURN-IN IS HOT TEST TOPIC
The importance of burn-in and test
extends from semiconductors to
military equipment
By EE Staff
Burn-in and test is an important step
in the development and production
of products ranging from semiconductors
and modules to consumer appliances and
military equipment. For the semiconductor industry, an application area such as
automotive manufacturing, with the attendant demands for safety and reliability,
is putting increasing emphasis on device
burn-in. Across all application areas, engineers are looking for easy-to-use, automated, cost-effective systems that operate at high speeds and at low cost.
To learn more about this test topic,
EE gathered commentary from makers
of burn-in and test systems and related
equipment and instrumentation to get
their thoughts on technology trends and
challenges, customer demands, and what
newer solutions are on the market. Read
on to see what they told us.
What's trending?
What new or ongoing technology or market trends are vendors seeing in the area
of burn-in test?
Vernon Rogers, executive vice president,
Aehr Test Systems: "We see the resurgence of full production burn-in driven
by the increasing
consumption of
sem iconductors
in the automotive
market. Found in
infotainment, engine control, and
safet y features,
compound semiconductors in electric and autonomous/self-driving
cars are requiring
100% burn-in of
these devices due
to their natural material properties
and the infancy of compound technology being used in a robust-product-requirement market."
John Booher, CTO at TotalTemp
Technologies: "There always seems to be
the push to get more work done in less
time with less resources. To answer this,
we at TotalTemp offer a hybrid benchtop
chamber with automation features that
speed up transition times, enable users
to log and produce test reports automatically, and control heat transfer by both
conduction and convection. Through its
A benchtop temperature chamber from
TotalTemp Technologies.
use, comparative test times can often be
cut in half."
Brian Hsu, USA product marketing manager, Preen AC Power Corp.: "The new
trends for the burn-in testing require
more flexibility on the power source for
powering up the unit-under-test (UUT) as
well as higher efficiency. And customers
sometimes may require a bidirectional
power source."
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Evaluation Engineering
Editorial: Three-way race to the future
By the Numbers
Industry Report
Signal Generators: New technology demands make signal generators more integral to testing
Burn-In and Test: The importance of burn-in and test extends from semiconductors to military equipment
Automotive Test: Automation boosts analog and digital test of automotive ICs
Sensor-Based Test: The 3R's of analog position sensor-based mechanical measurements
Power Test: Recommendation of voltage line disturbance test
Featured Tech
Tech Focus
Semiconductors: Heterogeneous integration ramps up electronics clout
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Evaluation Engineering - Sensor-Based Test: The 3R's of analog position sensor-based mechanical measurements
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