Equation 1 · Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication in Practice: Design Rules, Foundry PDKs, and the Yield Ramp
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Symbol Y_P
is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Symbol e^-AF
AF is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
=
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The study’s production model uses a standard form for die-sort yield as a function of electrical fault density, treating faults as randomly and independently distributed across a wafer: . where A is the critical area of the circuit — the area of the design actually susceptible to a given class of fault — and F is the fault density measured per unit area [ 7 ] . The relationship is exponential in both variables, which is precisely why yield learning is disproportionately valuable: a fixed absolute reduction in fault density buys a much larger yield improvement once fault density is already low than the same absolute reduction bought when fault density was high.
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